What web design in Dublin includes at Loco
A website built on a rented theme works until the business needs bookings, a store or a link to its CRM, and then it usually has to be rebuilt. We structure every site so those can be added later.
You work with Mark Murphy, Founder & Managing Director, and Adam Murphy, Director of Technology, from the first call to launch. A new site comes with:
- Ownership. You own the code and the content, and the domain, hosting and analytics accounts transfer to you on request.
- Speed on a phone. We set a Core Web Vitals target in the plan and measure it on the live site after launch.
- Accessibility. New sites are designed to WCAG 2.1 AA and checked with automated tools and by keyboard before launch. For a site that is already live, we run a website accessibility audit.
- Built to be found. A clear page structure, structured data, Google Business Profile details that match the site, and copy that AI search tools can read and quote.
- A CMS your team can run. Pages are built from editable sections, so adding a service, a case study or a news post does not mean calling a designer.
Recent work shows the range. The website we built for The Printed Image has been live at tpi.ie since July 2024, and the client’s own review calls us “an amazing help and really knowledgeable about websites”. Total Expo reached us as nine desktop designs, and we built them into a responsive site. After our 2026 accessibility work on the Just Transition Commission website, axe-core counted 0 WCAG 2.1 A and AA violations across the templates tested on 19 September 2026.
We fit best where the website feeds a business process: enquiries that land in your CRM, bookings, memberships, a catalogue or a client login. Linking your forms to HubSpot, Salesforce or Dynamics is covered in CRM integration in Ireland. For a five-page brochure site that will rarely change, a template build from a freelancer will cost less.
Our studio is at The Digital Hub in Dublin 8, and we work with companies across Ireland, mostly remotely.
Web design that turns visitors into enquiries
A website that looks good and brings in nobody is an expensive brochure. We design each page around the next step a visitor should take:
- A clear offer in the first screen. Who you help, what you do and how to start, readable on a phone without scrolling.
- One page per service. Each service gets a page of its own, written around the questions buyers ask, which is also how people find you in search.
- Proof where the decision is made. Case studies, reviews and client names beside the call to action, not on a page nobody visits.
- Short forms that reach the right person. Fewer fields, clear error messages, and an enquiry that arrives with the page it came from.
- Measurement from launch day. GA4 and Search Console set up, with enquiries tracked as key events, so you can see which pages bring in work.
The usual reasons a site does not convert, and the fixes, are in our guide to why a website is not converting.
Seven questions for choosing a web design agency in Dublin
Ask every supplier on your shortlist these seven questions before you sign.
- Who owns the site at launch? Get the answer in writing for the code, content, domain, hosting and analytics.
- Who does the work? Ask who will design and build the site, and whether you can speak to them directly.
- What will it score on mobile? Ask for a Core Web Vitals target and how it will be measured after launch.
- How will our rankings be protected? A redesign needs a URL map, redirects and a content audit, so ask to see the migration plan. Ours is set out in our website redesign SEO checklist.
- Is it accessible? The European Accessibility Act has applied to ecommerce and other listed consumer services since 28 June 2025, and micro-enterprises providing services are exempt. Our guide to the EU accessibility rules sets out who is in scope. Ask how conformance is tested, and by whom.
- Can it grow? Ask whether the site can take a store, bookings or a CRM link without a rebuild.
- What happens after launch? Find out who hosts the site, who fixes it and what that costs each month.
A supplier who answers all seven clearly and in writing has given you what you need to compare them, whether you choose us or someone else.
Website design and web development in Dublin
Good web design is only half a website. The other half is web development in Dublin: the CMS your team edits in, the integrations, the hosting and the speed. One team runs design and engineering at Loco, so nothing is lost between a designer and a developer, and we are just as happy to build from another designer’s files, as we did for Total Expo.
Most projects start from one of four places.
- A new website. A marketing site, a site with bookings or member logins, or a site that has outgrown its theme.
- A redesign. Website redesign in Dublin covers when to rebuild, what to keep and how to move without losing rankings.
- An online store. Ecommerce development in Dublin covers WooCommerce and Shopify stores, and Shopify development in Dublin covers stores on that platform alone.
- An app or a portal. When the site needs a login, a dashboard or an app in the stores, see mobile app development in Dublin.
We recommend the platform in the consult, once we know who will edit the site and what it has to connect to. A content-led site usually runs on WordPress, as The Printed Image, Total Expo and Palmer Shore all do. Stores run on Shopify or WooCommerce, and a site built around a workflow runs on custom code.
Design starts with how people use the site. Research, page structure and usability testing are part of our UX design work in Dublin. If you want AI search tools to read and cite your pages, AI-ready website development covers the structure and markup involved.
Recent web design projects
The Printed Image: six services on one site
The Printed Image started as a printer in 1990 and now sells design, print, merchandise, fulfilment, signage and client ordering portals. The site is organised by what a buyer wants made, every service has a page of its own, and the home page opens on film of the production floor. tpi.ie has been live since July 2024.
Loco Digital designed and built the tpi.ie website in 2024. Read The Printed Image case study.
Total Expo: nine artboards turned into a working website
Total Expo builds exhibition stands and event spaces from Dublin and Birmingham, and sells to organisers, exhibitors and agencies. The design reached us as nine desktop artboards. We added the responsive system, the component library and the motion, built with GSAP and Lottie, and gave each of the three audiences its own route through the site. A 35-second web promo shows the finished site moving, the kind of launch film our motion graphics partners make for client websites.
Loco Digital built the Total Expo website in 2024. Read the Total Expo case study.
Palmer Shore: a first website for a new firm
Palmer Shore sells a specialist service to data-centre developers and main contractors across Europe and the US. It launched with no website and no search history. We shaped the proposition with the founder, then designed a page for each service and a content system the team extends themselves.
Loco Digital designed and built Palmer Shore’s first website in 2026. Read the Palmer Shore case study.
ProfitPays: a site the client extends without us
ProfitPays manages cost and risk on construction projects, and it came to us with no website and no settled way to describe itself. We worked out the positioning with the team, then built the site from a library of designed section types, so each of its seven services has a page of its own shape and ProfitPays publishes new content without coming back to us. In his Google review, Michael McGrath of ProfitPays calls the team “accommodating, knowledgeable across website UI and development”.
Loco Digital designed and built the ProfitPays website in 2025. Read the ProfitPays case study.
More projects, from membership platforms to booking engines, are on our work page.
What does web design cost in Dublin?
Web design projects at Loco start from €10,000 ex VAT. The price is fixed in a costed plan at the end of the consult, before design starts. What moves it is the number of page templates, the systems the site connects to, the content and redirects to migrate, and whether the site sells online.
Every project runs in three steps: a consult that ends in that plan, a design you review before anything is engineered, and a build tested on phones and desktops before launch. Our guide to how much a website costs in Ireland sets out the price bands.
The Grow Digital Voucher does not fund bespoke website builds, and our page on what the Grow Digital Voucher covers sets out what it does pay for.
