We're a focused web design and digital marketing studio. We work with Irish businesses — small and serious — and we publish what we charge.
Raven Design is a small, senior, Irish-based web design and digital marketing studio. We design and build websites, identity systems, SEO foundations and marketing campaigns for Irish businesses — and we've been doing it for over a decade.
We are deliberately small. The work is done by senior practitioners, not handed down to junior account managers and project managed back up. The trade-off is that we take on fewer clients than a bigger agency would. The benefit, for the clients we do take on, is that the people answering your emails are the same people writing your code and your copy.
1. Information beats theatre. Most agency websites read like a riddle: vague claims, no prices, no specifics, a "let's talk" button at every turn. We think the buyer deserves more. So we publish prices, name our process, write our case studies in real numbers, and tell you what the audit covers before you fill in the form.
2. The site is a commercial asset. A website is not a brochure, a portfolio piece, or a design ornament. It is a piece of operational infrastructure that should pay for itself in a defined window. Every Raven build starts with that premise.
3. Honest reporting. When something works, we say so. When something doesn't move, we say that too. Marketing dashboards full of green ticks are theatre. We'd rather show a flat line and a clear hypothesis for what to try next than dress up no-progress in a vanity metric.
4. Build for who's actually buying. Most of our clients sell to other Irish businesses, or to Irish consumers with specific local needs. We design for that market: the language, the trust signals, the credentials, the pricing expectations. We don't import a Bay-Area template and pretend it suits a Cork SME.
5. We refer out everything we don't do well. WordPress builds, themed templates, video production, app development, social media management as a standalone service — all things other studios do better than we would. We'll tell you who.
I run Raven Design. The "we" you read across the rest of the site is honest — there's a small team behind the studio — but the studio is founder-led and you'll deal with me on every project of consequence.
I've been building, running, and growing websites for Irish businesses for over a decade. Before this studio existed in its current form, I built and operated a portfolio of more than fifty Irish-domain properties — service hubs, editorial directories, local SME sites — many of which are still live. That portfolio is the studio's testing ground. Every method we sell to a client gets shaken out on our own properties first.
I started Raven Design because most of the Irish studios I encountered, on either side of the table, weren't built for buyers like me — practical, time-poor business owners who wanted to know what something cost and what we'd ship for it, before sitting through a sales call. I wanted to build the studio I would have hired.
The shortest pitch I have for the work: we make sites that work for the businesses that own them — not for the studio that built them. If that sounds like the studio you want, I'd love to hear what you're working on.
The process is the same for every tier. The difference is how much is in scope at each step.
You request the audit. We deliver a written document — messaging, UX, SEO, trust signals — within five working days. No call required, no pitch attached.
If you want to engage, we run a 30-minute call to fix the scope. Quote is fixed before signing. Tier or Custom — your choice.
Two-to-eight weeks depending on tier. Weekly progress, staging URL from week one, your changes baked in continuously. Senior practitioners on the work end-to-end.
We launch on managed hosting and stay close. Three months of free post-launch tweaks. Optional monthly care plan after that.
We work with public-sector buyers, not-for-profits, and tender-evaluated procurement. Specifics on request:
The fastest way to see how we work is to put your site in front of us.
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