How to Choose a web Design Company Ireland

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Ask who owns the site when you leave

This is the question that separates suppliers fastest. Ask directly whether you receive the domain, the hosting login, the content management login and the code, and get the answer in writing. A surprising number of Irish small businesses discover during a redesign that their domain is registered to a former supplier. Ownership should never be a negotiation at the end of a project.

Compare scope, not headline prices

A €1,200 quote and a €4,250 quote are rarely the same job. Before comparing, write down the page count, whether copywriting is included, whether photography is included, how many rounds of revisions you get, what happens after launch, and who pays for hosting in year two. Then ask each supplier to price that same list. Half of the price gap in most comparisons is scope, and the other half is who does the work.

Warning signs worth walking away from

Guaranteed first-place rankings, which nobody can deliver. A refusal to name the specific people doing the work. Contracts that lock hosting to the supplier at above-market rates. Portfolios with no live links. And case study statistics with no client name attached — if a result cannot be attributed, treat it as decoration. We hold ourselves to the same test: we name our founder, Joey Bray, we publish our starting prices, and we do not print numbers we cannot stand over.

Five questions that separate quotes quickly

Ask who does the work and whether it is subcontracted. Ask for the written scope, not a brochure. Ask what happens to the domain, hosting and code if you leave. Ask what the site costs in year two, including hosting, licences and edits. Ask what they would tell you not to buy. Suppliers who cannot answer the last one in plain language are usually selling a package rather than solving a problem.

Signals that a quote will grow after signature

A price with no page count attached, a scope described only as 'a modern website', or a design phase with unlimited revisions all tend to end in change requests. So does a build on an agency-only platform, where leaving means starting again. A fixed figure against a listed scope, with a stated change-request rate, is safer even when it looks less generous on the first call.

What happens next

You get a reply from Joey Bray the same working day. You get a fixed written quote within 48 hours — one price, one delivery date. Work starts only when you have signed the scope, with 50% up front and 50% at launch. Starting prices: Brochure from €1,200, Growth from €2,500, Authority from €4,250, Custom from €5,000, E-commerce from €6,000, AI integration from €2,500, SEO from €650 a month. All prices are ex-VAT starting points.

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