Web Design and Development in Belfast

Does a Belfast company need different website terms to a London one?

Often, yes. Northern Ireland is a separate legal jurisdiction from England and Wales and from Scotland, so the governing law and jurisdiction wording in your terms normally points at the courts of Northern Ireland rather than being copied from an English template found online.

Plenty stays the same. UK GDPR and the cookie rules apply across the whole UK, so your privacy notice and consent obligations do not change because you are in Belfast. Company trading disclosure rules also apply UK wide, so your registered company name, number and registered office address belong on the site, not just on your invoices.

Where it genuinely changes is selling south. If you sell to consumers in the Republic of Ireland you are dealing with EU consumer protection and distance selling expectations as well as UK ones, and some firms end up running two sets of terms.

We are a production company, not a law firm, and we will not draft any of that. What we do is make the website carry it properly:

• Terms, privacy and cookie pages you can edit yourself, with dated version history
• A cookie banner that blocks non essential scripts before consent rather than just announcing them
• Separate policy sets per market where you trade in two

Website builds start from 500 pounds plus 100 pounds a month, and the rest of the figures are on our pricing page.

Selling in pounds and euros from one Belfast online store

Belfast businesses sell across a land border, and a store built for a single currency makes that harder than it needs to be. The fix is one catalogue with two commercial faces.

There are two honest ways to do it. Fixed price lists per currency give you control: you set the euro price deliberately, it holds steady, and your margin does not move with the exchange rate. Live conversion from a sterling base is less work to maintain but produces awkward, shifting prices that customers notice. Most trade sellers pick fixed lists, most retail sellers pick conversion.

The rest is detail that decides whether a checkout converts:

• Currency detection by location, with an obvious manual override, because guessing wrong loses the sale
• Shipping zones and rates that separate Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic properly
• Clear messaging at checkout about what the customer pays on delivery, so nobody is surprised

VAT treatment depends on where you sell, which is a conversation for your accountant rather than for us. Goods movement rules between Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the EU also change, so we build the store with those settings under your control rather than hard coding a tax rule that needs a developer every time policy shifts.

If the euro price list currently lives in a document somebody updates by hand and pastes into emails, that is the job this replaces.

What Belfast fintech and cybersecurity firms ask for that other clients do not

Belfast has a real cluster in fintech and cybersecurity, and those firms bring requirements to a website project that a local retailer never raises.

The first is that your own customers audit you. Enterprise buyers send security questionnaires, and questions about your public website land in them: what third party scripts run, where form data goes, who has access to the hosting, how dependencies are patched. We build with that in mind, keeping the dependency set small, the tag load light and form submissions routed into systems you control. Tell us the standard you are held to and we will build to it.

The second is credibility with a technical audience. A security firm with a slow, bloated marketing site has a problem before anyone reads a word of it, and so does one whose careers page cannot handle applications in a market where hiring is the real constraint. Documentation, trust pages and demo booking flows matter more than a hero video.

The third is internal tooling. Much of what these teams need is not a website at all: a client portal, an onboarding workflow, a reporting dashboard, an approval queue currently living in a spreadsheet. That is custom software and AI agent territory, from 1,000 pounds plus 150 pounds a month.

To be straight about the boundary: we are a digital production company, not a penetration testing firm, so we build to sensible hygiene and work alongside your security people rather than claiming to replace them.

Film and television sites that go up fast and come down again

Northern Ireland has built a substantial screen production sector, and production websites break the usual assumptions about how long a site should live.

A production company site is a credibility document. It needs the reel to start playing immediately, credits that can be updated in minutes, and clear routes to the people who take enquiries. None of that is complicated, but all of it is easy to get wrong when video is dropped in as raw files and the page stalls on a phone.

The more interesting case is the temporary site: a single production microsite, a festival campaign, a casting call, a distributor facing pitch page that needs to exist for three weeks. Traditional agency timelines and budgets do not fit that shape. An AI accelerated build does, because our median time from brief to live on a standard build is around 72 hours, and a person still reads, tests and signs off a page tied to a transmission date before it publishes.

If it only needs to run for a season, say so and we will build it to be cheap to retire. Examples are on our work page.

How do Belfast businesses get found across two markets at once?

A Belfast business often needs to be visible in two search markets, and the two behave differently. Someone in Lisburn searching for a supplier and someone in Dublin searching for the same thing get different results, weight different signals, and in the Republic will expect prices in euros.

The practical response is not to build two websites. It is to make the location and currency signals explicit: pages that say plainly where you deliver, what you charge in each currency, and whether you handle customs paperwork. Vagueness about whether you serve the Republic is the most common reason a southern enquiry never gets made.

Cross border questions are also exactly what people now put to an assistant rather than a search box, whether a Northern Ireland supplier delivers to Dublin or what happens to an order placed from Belfast, so the page that states it plainly is the one that gets quoted. That is what our ongoing answers service works on, from 100 pounds a month, alongside ordinary local search across Belfast, Lisburn, Bangor, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Holywood and Antrim.