Web design in Belfast
We are not in Belfast. SH Studios is two people in England, one in Hampshire and one in Cheshire, and we work with businesses across the water by phone, video and WhatsApp. That is fine because you see everything first. We build your site before you pay a penny, you go through it on your own phone, and you only go ahead when it feels like yours.
We write every site by hand. No page builder, no forty plugins, no theme somebody else in Belfast is already using.
A website that does one job: get the phone to ring
A plain list, no sales talk. This is what you are paying for.
- No page builder and no bought theme, so there is nothing in it to slow it down
- One clear price up front. Builds from £395, and shops or apps are quoted on the job
- A free preview of your own site inside 48 hours, before you pay anything
- Photos of your own work, sized properly so they do not crawl on mobile
- Set up so Google can read it: titles, descriptions, schema, the lot
- Live on your own domain, with the email and DNS moved for you
The Belfast businesses we build for most
Belfast work is shaped by how the city is heated and where it shops. Most homes in Northern Ireland still run on oil, with gas only arriving in Greater Belfast in 1996. Lisburn Road and the Ormeau Road carry the independents, and the trade counters sit out at Duncrue and Mallusk.
Oil heating engineers and plumbers
Around six in ten homes in Northern Ireland use oil as their main heating, far more than anywhere in Great Britain. That means oil boiler servicing, tank replacement and conversions are everyday work here. Your site should say clearly which of those you do and which parts of Belfast you cover, so the right customer calls you rather than a directory.
Trades from Duncrue and Mallusk
Duncrue Industrial Estate by the harbour and the M2, and Mallusk out at Newtownabbey, hold a lot of Belfast's electrical, plumbing and building suppliers. Many trades pass through every week. Your customers could be anywhere across the BT postcodes, so the site should be plain about where you go.
Independents on the Lisburn and Ormeau Roads
Lisburn Road and the Ormeau Road both have their own independent cafes, shops and salons, and the Ormeau calls itself Belfast's independent neighbourhood. Those businesses need a site that shows the place and works on a phone, with correct opening hours and a way to book or buy.
More on this: websites for plumbers and websites for heating engineers.
What you are actually up against in Belfast
A trade search in Belfast usually brings up the map box, then directory pages, then the firms. Checkatrade and similar sites do have Belfast pages, alongside Northern Ireland's own listings. Many local firms rely on word of mouth and a Facebook page, and a lot of their sites, where they have one, are old and slow on a phone.
That leaves room for a firm with a clear site. Say what you do, which areas you cover, and for heating, whether you work on oil, gas or both. Pair it with a Google Business Profile that matches and reviews that name the area. That is often enough to be the one people find first.
Who we have actually built for near Belfast
Fair question on a page like this: have we actually done any of it near here. Here is the closest live client to Belfast we can put a name to.
Shakeshaft Jones, Middlewich, Cheshire
Trading since 2016 on word of mouth alone, with nothing online to show for it. Their five-page site gives them a professional home on the web, a gallery of finished jobs, availability at a glance, and per-person contact buttons that turn browsers into direct enquiries.
Middlewich is 172 miles from Belfast in a straight line.
Live on their own domain at shakeshaftjones.co.uk, and we have written the whole job up: read the Shakeshaft Jones case study.
You can check the rest the same way: our work page names every live client and the town they trade in, and labels every concept build as a concept, so you can tell at a glance which is which.
Where we work around Belfast
We are not local to Belfast. These are the areas a Belfast business site usually needs to name.
- Belfast city centre
- Lisburn Road and south Belfast
- The Ormeau Road
- East Belfast
- North Belfast and Duncrue
- Newtownabbey and Mallusk
Web Design in Belfast: three questions we get asked
Do I pay anything before I see the site?
No. We build a real preview of your site first, inside 48 hours, and send you the link. Like it and we take it live, and that is when you pay. If it is not for you, you owe nothing and that is the end of it.
What happens once the site is live?
That is up to you. If you want us to keep looking after it, that is a care plan, at £45, £85 or £150 a month, and you can stop whenever you like. What each plan covers is on the care plan page.
I mostly work on oil boilers. Should my site focus on that?
Yes, if that is where your work is. In Northern Ireland oil is the main heating for most homes, so a clear page on oil boiler servicing, repairs and tank work speaks to a lot of people. If you also do gas or conversions, give each its own section. Customers searching for oil work want to know straight away that you do it, not dig through a page written for somewhere else.
Where Belfast is from us
Belfast is in County Antrim, in the BT postcode area, 317 miles north-west of our Southampton studio in a straight line. Glasgow is the closest town to Belfast that we also cover, 110 miles away, then Falkirk at 129 miles.
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- Free audit of the site you have now
A free Belfast preview, built in 48 hours
Three details and we start. Your preview arrives on a link within 48 hours, and there is nothing to pay unless you decide to go ahead.
Got it, thank you.
We will reply within 24 hours and your preview follows inside 48.