Independent web design · Derry / Londonderry
Your website can introduce an organisation rooted in the city while reaching customers and supporters much further away. I’m Jb at Leviathan Studios in Belfast, building bespoke websites and online shops for organisations across Northern Ireland.
Project example: Grá Duit’s bespoke clothing shop, with English and Irish shopping journeys.
The useful starting point
When a site serves different audiences, languages or types of customer, the structure matters as much as the visual design. We agree what should be shared, what needs its own journey and how your team will keep the information consistent as the website develops.
A visitor who has never heard of your organisation needs context: what you offer, why it is useful and where you can provide it. We can build the pages around those questions, with real work and practical details helping someone decide whether to contact you.
The useful choices start before checkout: product organisation, size or variant information, delivery coverage and how orders are managed. We agree those requirements around your business, including any external systems the shop needs to work with.
If more than one language is part of your offer, it needs planning across navigation, content, product information and updates. We can scope language routes and management around the people using the website, with translated content supplied or commissioned as agreed.
Before the first sketch
For a Derry / Londonderry organisation looking beyond its immediate audience, a useful brief separates the customer journeys. A local service enquiry, a product purchase and a supporter looking for information may need different content and different next steps.
See the bespoke website serviceWho will use the site locally, across Northern Ireland and further afield?
Which services or products can each audience actually access?
Are multiple languages part of the agreed content and maintenance plan?
What catalogue, order or enquiry tools need to connect to the website?
Which current content and URLs must be retained during a rebuild?
Work from the studio
Existing Leviathan projects selected for their ecommerce and audience requirements: a bilingual clothing shop and a specialist collector platform. Their case studies describe the individual scope.
Useful questions
Yes. I work from Belfast with organisations across Northern Ireland and further afield. Discovery, design reviews and handover can be arranged remotely. You have direct contact with the person designing and developing the website throughout the project.
A bilingual website can be included in the scope. We agree which content and journeys need both languages, how the editor or catalogue should support them and who will provide and maintain the translations. The Grá Duit case study shows an example of bilingual ecommerce work.
We can plan the store around your agreed markets and operational requirements, including delivery information, currencies, payment tools and integrations where needed. You define the business policies; the website needs to explain them clearly and support the agreed buying journey.
We review audiences, content, catalogue size, integrations and migration before giving a quote. Focused websites usually start from £4,000, while ecommerce or platform projects typically start from £8,000 and take around 10–16 weeks. The written scope sets out what is included and the agreed timing.
One person, from first chat to launch
Tell me about your organisation in Derry / Londonderry, who you want to reach and whether the project is a business website, shop or something more connected. Include any language or integration requirements.
Your designer, developer and point of contact. Based in Belfast, working across Northern Ireland.
hello@lvthn.co
