Bespoke websites
Designed and built from scratch around your business, not adapted from a template. Laravel or Craft CMS, and an admin your own team can use.
Plan your websiteA template can only ever make you look just like everyone else.
If you want a quick fix, a bespoke site is the wrong spend and we will point you at our entry-level option instead. But if the website is how people decide whether to trust you, it should be built around your business rather than adapted from something designed for somebody else's.
Marketing site and content
The pages that do the selling, with a structure that fits what you actually offer. Blog, case studies, news and landing pages, all editable by your team without ringing us.
Selling online
Physical stock, digital products, subscriptions and gift cards, with payments taken securely and stock kept in step with the shop floor.
E-commerceTaking bookings
Availability, deposits and confirmations on your own domain, around your own rules, with no commission taken on anything you sell.
Booking systemsMember areas and portals
Logins, roles, gated content and the internal tools that sit behind the public site. Where a website stops being a brochure and starts being software.
Web applicationsCustom APIs and integrations
Where an off-the-shelf connector exists we use it. Where one does not, we write it, so the site talks to your payment provider, accounts package, CRM or whatever else you run.
Laravel developmentAI features
Assistants and automations that answer from your own content rather than the open web, wired into the site rather than dropped on top of it.
AI integrationConnected to what you already run
Orders reach your accounts package, enquiries reach your CRM, and nobody retypes anything into a second system. We write the integrations as part of the build.
- Stripe
- GoCardless
- PayPal
- Klarna
- Apple Pay
- Xero
- QuickBooks
- Sage
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Pipedrive
- Mailchimp
- Klaviyo
- Campaign Monitor
- Google Analytics
- Search Console
- Meta Pixel
- Companies House
- Royal Mail
- Twilio
- Zapier
- Slack
- Microsoft 365
- Your own internal API
Built, and live
Three bespoke builds, all running on the admin we handed over. See all of our work.
When researching companies to build our website, I explored portfolios of work to see what different agencies could deliver. Element Seven's work stood out so clearly that I didn't even contact anyone else. The entire process was seamless. Communication was excellent, timelines were met without chasing.
How we deliver
A fixed price agreed first, a staging site from the first week, and the same people the whole way through.
A call or a meeting to pin down what the site has to achieve and who it is for. We will suggest the approach we think fits, including telling you if a smaller build would do.
The approach in writing, with what is in, what is out, a timeline and a fixed price. No hourly rate running quietly in the background.
Designed against your real content rather than placeholder text, so what gets approved is what actually ships.
You see it on a staging site as it goes, not at the end. Changes are cheapest while it is still being built, so we would rather you looked early and often.
Migration, redirects, analytics and training for your team, so nothing that was ranking quietly disappears on the day it goes live.
A monthly plan covering updates, backups, monitoring and small changes. Most of our clients are still with us years later.
What is a bespoke website?
A bespoke website is designed and built from scratch for one business rather than adapted from a template or a bought theme. The page structure, the content fields and the admin are all shaped around how that business actually works, so nothing is there because a theme author included it. It costs more than a template up front, and it is the right choice when the website has to do a job rather than just exist.
How much does a bespoke website cost in Northern Ireland?
It depends on how much of it is custom, how many systems it has to connect to, and how much content needs moving across. We scope the work first and give you a fixed price in writing before anything starts, so you are never agreeing to an hourly rate that keeps running. If a smaller fixed-price build would serve you better, we will say so on the first call.
How long does a bespoke website take to build?
A straightforward bespoke site is usually six to ten weeks from the first call to launch. Sites with booking, e-commerce, member areas or a migration from an old platform take longer. You see it on a staging site as it is built rather than at the end.
Do you build in WordPress?
For bespoke work we build in Laravel or Craft CMS. Both give a cleaner admin and far fewer moving parts than a WordPress site held together with plugins. We do use WordPress and Shopify for our entry-level builds, where speed and budget matter more than a custom back end.
Can the site connect to systems we already use?
Yes. We write custom API integrations as part of the build, so the site can talk to your payment provider, accounting software, CRM, booking system or internal tools. Where an off-the-shelf connector exists we use it, and where one does not, we write it.
Will our team be able to edit the site ourselves?
Yes. The admin is built around your content rather than a generic page builder, and we train your team on it before launch. Most clients handle their own day-to-day edits and come back to us for the larger changes.
Who owns the website when it is finished?
You do. The code, the content, the domain and the hosting accounts are all in your name. If you ever want to move it elsewhere you can, and we will help hand it over.
Where are you based?
Holywood, County Down, about ten minutes from Belfast. We work with clients right across Northern Ireland, and most of them are within an hour of the studio.
Where we work
Element Seven is a web development studio in Holywood, County Down, ten minutes from Belfast. We design and build bespoke websites for businesses across Northern Ireland, and being local matters more than people expect: we can sit in a room with you when that is quicker than a call, and you are talking to the people writing the code.
- Belfast
- Holywood
- Bangor
- Newtownards
- Lisburn
- Ballymena
- Newry
- Armagh
- Derry / Londonderry
- Coleraine