Maiden City Digital - web design agency in Derry MAIDEN CITY
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Web design, branding & strategy in Derry

Built in the city
that never fell.

Built to stand out.

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No templates. No monthly fees. Trusted by restaurants, shops, artists, venues and festivals across Derry, the UK & Spain.
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One studio, start to finish

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.

01

Web Design & Development

Custom-coded sites, built by hand. No templates, no page builders.

02

Brand Identity

Logo, colour, type and a visual system that holds together everywhere it appears.

03

SEO & Local Search

On-page SEO, Google Business Profile and schema, built in from day one.

04

Social Media & Content

Post design, captions and publishing plans in your brand's voice.

05

Video & Production

Filming coordinated with trusted collaborators, editing and post-production in-house.

06

Marketing Strategy

A plan for what to publish and when, so the work keeps working after launch.

23+
Clients served
11
Websites launched
98
Google PageSpeed score
£0
Monthly platform fees
Who we build for

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.

Retail · Trades · Services · Hospitality

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.

Bars · Restaurants · Cafes · Event spaces

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.

Musicians · Actors · Festivals · Coaches
Template vs. custom-coded

The difference isn't how it looks.
It's how it performs.

Drag-and-drop builders load slowly, rank poorly and lock you in. Every number below is why we write real code instead.

Google PageSpeed score higher is better
Template builder
54
Maiden City Digital
98
Page load time lower is better
Template builder
4.6s
Maiden City Digital
1.1s
Template builderMaiden City Digital
Loading speed Slow, plugin-heavy Hand-optimised code
Google ranking Generic, hard to rank SEO built into every page
Design One of thousands Unique to your brand
Monthly fees £15–40/mo forever You own it outright
Ownership Locked to platform 100% yours, portable
Web design & branding packages

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

From £495
up to £850
For small businesses ready to move on from a generic template, without overpaying.
  • 4–5 pages, mobile-first
  • Contact / booking form
  • On-page SEO basics
  • Delivered in 10–14 days
Start here
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Signature

From £1,450
up to £2,200
For businesses with a story worth telling. A full brand system and a site with real character, whether you run a restaurant, a studio or a stage.
  • Up to 10 pages
  • Custom illustration or animation
  • Full brand system
  • Delivered in ~3 weeks
+ Add a Spotlight Day shoot — £595
Start here

Launch

From £3,450
scoped to you
The full system to launch or relaunch a business properly, from one studio. Also where we scope e-commerce, integrations and multi-location builds.
  • Everything in Signature, scoped up
  • A full Spotlight Day shoot included
  • Social Launch Pack included
  • First month of Momentum included
Book a call
Keep it running

Monthly care plans

Care

£55/month + VAT

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

£225/month + VAT

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

£425/month + VAT

Everything in Grow, plus social content creation (8–10 posts a month), Google Business Profile management, and a quarterly strategy call.

Beyond the website

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.

Identity

Brand Identity System

From £340

Logo refinement, colour palette, typography and a one-page brand sheet, so everything you publish looks like it came from the same hand.

Get found

Google Business + Local SEO Setup

From £150

Complete Google Business Profile setup and optimisation, local citations, and on-page SEO tuned for the searches your customers actually make.

Events

Event & Festival Digital Suite

Scoped per event

Event site, official poster, announcement carousels and a publishing calendar. The full pre-launch machine we run for real events.

Photo & video

Spotlight Day

From £450

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 →
For any brand

Social Launch Pack

From £185

Six production-quality Instagram posts designed to your brand, with a caption guide written in your voice and a week-by-week publishing plan.

For performers

Artist Launch Kit

From £295

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.

Benny Rod, founder of Maiden City Digital 14 years on stage
Why we're different

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?

Professional tenor, 14 yrs HBO / NSO London credit Festival marketing director Working in EN & ES
As seen with
HBO National Symphony Orchestra London
Benny Rod, Founder
The Peace Bridge connects two sides of one city. Your website should connect you to everyone who needs to find you.
Recent work

Websites we've built

A selection of custom websites and brand systems we've designed for clients across music, performance, hospitality and beyond.

bennyvocalcoach.co.uk
Vocal Coaching
Benny Vocal Coach
Benny Vocal CoachTurning a method into a brand→
laurasheerin.co.uk
Soprano
Laura Sheerin
Laura SheerinOne link instead of three documents→
odinsmeadhall.co.uk
Hospitality
Odin's Mead Hall
Odin's Mead HallBooked out before opening night→
operabenicassim.com
Opera Festival
Festival Lírico Òpera Benicàssim
Òpera BenicàssimA festival, sold in two languages→
adamholland.co.uk
Country Music
Adam Holland
Adam HollandFrom unplayable on mobile to booked→
pabloturlomusic.com
Violinist
Pablo Turlo
Pablo TurloClassical technique, no genre borders→
nancyfabiolaherrera.com
Mezzosoprano
Nancy Fabiola Herrera
Nancy Fabiola HerreraA stage career, in one page→
timosullivanactor.co.uk
Actor
Tim O'Sullivan
Tim O'SullivanA casting call in one page→
Trusted by

Not only websites

Beyond the builds above, we handle SEO, sales strategy and social for artists, orchestras and festivals across the UK and Spain.

Violincheli BrothersSEO
Orquestra Simfònica Caixa OntinyentSocial & SEO
Festival Òpera BenicàssimWeb, social & SEO
Zarzuela por el MundoSales strategy
Hanna-Liisa Kirchin Vocal CoachSEO
The Fearless Voice MethodWeb & social

Also working with Orquestra de València and independent businesses across Derry, Northern Ireland and Spain.

What clients say

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.

Adam HollandCountry Artist
“

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.

Laura SheerinSoprano & Associate Lecturer
“

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.

Tim O'SullivanOdin's Mead Hall
How it works

Four steps. No mystery.

You'll always know where your project stands, what happens next, and what it costs.

01

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."

02

Design

We present the design direction first. Don't approve it? 50% back, no questions asked. Approve it, and two revision rounds are included.

03

Build

Custom-coded, mobile-first, and fast. No page builders, no bloat, no platform lock-in. The code is entirely yours.

04

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.

FAQ

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.

Let's talk

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.

Areas we serve

Web design, branding and SEO for businesses in Derry, Belfast, Coleraine, Strabane and Letterkenny, working across Northern Ireland, the UK and Spain.