Be seen. Be
remembered.
Be chosen.
We create websites, brands, content and digital experiences that get your business noticed.
The full system behind how your business gets seen.
One studio designs it, builds it, launches it and keeps it growing, so your site, your brand and everything you publish actually match.
Web Design & Development
Custom-coded sites, built by hand. No templates, no page builders.
Brand Identity
Logo, colour, type and a visual system that holds together everywhere it appears.
SEO & Local Search
On-page SEO, Google Business Profile and schema, built in from day one.
Social Media & Content
Post design, captions and publishing plans in your brand's voice.
Video & Production
Filming coordinated with trusted collaborators, editing and post-production in-house.
Marketing Strategy
A plan for what to publish and when, so the work keeps working after launch.
Whatever you do,
we make you look the part.
From a busy restaurant to a touring singer, we build websites that work as hard as you do. The creative background just means you get real character, never a template with your name on it.
Local & Growing Businesses
Restaurants, shops, trades and services. You need to show up on Google, look credible, and turn visitors into customers. Custom-coded, fast, and entirely yours, at a price scoped to the job.
Venues & Hospitality
Atmosphere doesn't stop at your door. We translate the feeling of your room into a website that fills tables, with booking, menus and a brand people remember.
Artists & Performers
Your website is your stage before the stage. We build sites, electronic press kits and social content that get you booked, because we know what a promoter looks for in the first ten seconds.
Three ways to work with us
Honest pricing, scoped to the size of the job, not the size of an agency's overhead. Custom web design for small businesses in Derry and across the UK, with SEO built in from day one.
Essentials
- 4–5 pages, mobile-first
- Contact / booking form
- On-page SEO basics
- Delivered in 10–14 days
Signature
- Up to 10 pages
- Custom illustration or animation
- Full brand system
- Delivered in ~3 weeks
Launch
- Everything in Signature, scoped up
- A full Spotlight Day shoot included
- Social Launch Pack included
- First month of Momentum included
Monthly care plans
Care
Everything to keep your site fast, safe and online: managed hosting, daily backups, security and software updates, uptime monitoring and small text or image fixes. No separate hosting bill, no surprise invoices.
Grow
Everything in Care, plus one piece of content published a month (a blog post or case study), a monthly SEO check-in, and small site updates handled for you.
Momentum
Everything in Grow, plus social content creation (8–10 posts a month), Google Business Profile management, and a quarterly strategy call.
Everything your launch needs, under one roof
Add any of these to a package, or book them on their own. Everything is designed and delivered in-house, in the same brand system.
Brand Identity System
Logo refinement, colour palette, typography and a one-page brand sheet, so everything you publish looks like it came from the same hand.
Google Business + Local SEO Setup
Complete Google Business Profile setup and optimisation, local citations, and on-page SEO tuned for the searches your customers actually make.
Event & Festival Digital Suite
Event site, official poster, announcement carousels and a publishing calendar. The full pre-launch machine we run for real events.
Spotlight Day
A half-day shoot for your brand: photography, video, or both. Filming coordinated with trusted collaborators, everything edited in-house. Have your own footage already? We also do edit-only.
See the gallery & book →Social Launch Pack
Six production-quality Instagram posts designed to your brand, with a caption guide written in your voice and a week-by-week publishing plan.
Artist Launch Kit
Electronic press kit, professional bio, and a 6-post Instagram launch suite with captions and a posting calendar. One link to send venues, promoters and press.
No surprises
If you don't approve the initial design direction, we refund 50%, no questions asked. Once you approve it, every project includes two rounds of revisions. Payment: 50% to start, 50% on delivery for Essentials; larger projects split into three milestones. Ask about splitting your deposit into two interest-free instalments.
Systems that keep working after you log off.
Everything above is work we do for you. Maiden City AI is different: small, focused systems that keep doing that work quietly in the background: answering questions, following up on leads, asking for reviews, on their own, after hours, every day.
This is a new part of the studio, still taking shape. Some of it is ready to build for the right business now; some of it is coming. Nothing here is oversold as finished software.
See what's coming →AI Receptionist
Answers common questions and captures visitor details on your site, day or night.
Lead Engine
Follows up with new enquiries automatically, so none go cold from a slow reply.
Review Engine
Sends a review request at the right moment, without you having to remember to ask.
Custom Automation
A repetitive process in your business, handled. Scoped to what you actually need.
14 years on stage
Fourteen years learning how to hold a room.
Now we do it in three seconds.
Maiden City Digital was founded by Benny Rod, a professional tenor with 14 years performing internationally, credits with the National Symphony Orchestra London for HBO, appearances at the Abu Dhabi opera house, and the marketing director of a working opera festival in Spain.
Here is why that matters to your business. For fourteen years the job was to walk onto a stage and convince a room full of strangers to pay attention, stay, and come back. That is exactly what your website has to do. The only difference is that on stage you get three minutes. Online, you get three seconds.
Most agencies learned your customer from a brief. We learned them from the front row. Whether you run a restaurant, a garage or a record label, the question is the same: does the person landing on your page stay, or leave?
Not only websites
Beyond the builds above, we handle SEO, sales strategy and social for artists, orchestras and festivals across the UK and Spain.
SEO
Social & SEO
Web, social & SEO
Sales strategy
SEO
Web & socialAlso working with Orquestra de València and independent businesses across Derry, Northern Ireland and Spain.
The people who had to live with the result.
Real clients. Real projects. Their words, not ours.
My old site barely worked on a phone, and that's where most people were trying to listen. They rebuilt it from scratch, fixed the playback issues, and put together my outreach list for radio and festivals. It actually does something for me now instead of just sitting there.
I needed a site and a press bio that worked in two languages without reading like a translation. They got both right, and it's made it so much easier to send venues one link instead of three different documents.
They built the whole brand for Odin's Mead Hall from nothing, the website, the booking system, the launch posts, all of it. It looks like somewhere you actually want to spend an evening, and the bookings started before we'd even opened the doors.
Four steps. No mystery.
You'll always know where your project stands, what happens next, and what it costs.
Discover
A free call to understand your goals, your audience and what you have now. You get an honest review, even if the answer is "your current site is fine."
Design
We present the design direction first. Don't approve it? 50% back, no questions asked. Approve it, and two revision rounds are included.
Build
Custom-coded, mobile-first, and fast. No page builders, no bloat, no platform lock-in. The code is entirely yours.
Launch & grow
We launch, submit to Google, and hand over the keys. Or we keep it running with a Care plan and content that stays on-brand.
Questions, answered
Our websites start at £495 for a small business site and scale with the size of the job. You get a fixed quote on a free call, no surprises.
Yes. Every site is built SEO-ready, and we offer local SEO and Google Business Profile setup so you show up when people in Derry and Northern Ireland search for what you do. Getting you found is the whole point.
Absolutely. We're based in Derry but build for clients across Northern Ireland, the UK and beyond. Everything is handled remotely with clear calls and updates, so location is never a barrier.
Essentials: 10–14 days. Signature: around 3 weeks. Launch: scoped per project on a free call.
Yes. Ask us about splitting your deposit into two interest-free payments.
Completely. No lock-in, no platform dependency. The code and the domain are yours.
Yes. Spotlight Day is a half-day shoot for your brand: 25–40 edited photos plus short, social-ready video clips. Filming is coordinated with trusted collaborators and everything is edited in-house. It can be booked on its own or added to any package.
Yes, through our monthly plans. Grow includes a monthly content piece and SEO check-in; Momentum adds social content creation and Google Business Profile management, so your presence keeps building after launch.
If you don't approve the initial direction, you get 50% back, no questions asked.
Not at all. Roughly half our work is for restaurants, shops, trades and other local businesses across Derry, Northern Ireland and the UK. Our creative-industry background just means every client gets a site with real character, not a template with your logo on it.
Yes. We design Instagram launch suites, press kits, posters and monthly content retainers, all in the same brand system as your site, so everything you publish looks like it came from one hand.
Tell us about your project
Free, no-pressure review of what you have now, and what it could become.
Prefer email? Write to benny@maidencitydigital.co.uk and we'll get back to you within one working day.
Web design, branding and SEO for businesses in Derry, Belfast, Coleraine, Strabane and Letterkenny, working across Northern Ireland, the UK and Spain.