Websites & branding for businesses that want to stand out

Built in the city
that never fell.

Custom-coded websites, branding and content for businesses across Derry and the UK. From restaurants and shops to artists and venues, built by someone who knows what it takes to get people through the door.

Trusted by restaurants, shops, artists, venues, festivals and independent businesses across the UK & Spain
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Who we build for

Whatever you do,
we make you look the part.

From a busy restaurant to a touring singer, we build websites that work as hard as you do. The creative background just means you get real character, never a template with your name on it.

Local & Growing Businesses

Restaurants, shops, trades and services. You need to show up on Google, look credible, and turn visitors into customers. Custom-coded, fast, and entirely yours, at a price scoped to the job.

Retail · Trades · Services · Hospitality

Venues & Hospitality

Atmosphere doesn't stop at your door. We translate the feeling of your room into a website that fills tables, with booking, menus and a brand people remember.

Bars · Restaurants · Cafes · Event spaces

Artists & Performers

Your website is your stage before the stage. We build sites, electronic press kits and social content that get you booked, because we know what a promoter looks for in the first ten seconds.

Musicians · Actors · Festivals · Coaches
Template vs. custom-coded

The difference isn't how it looks.
It's how it performs.

Drag-and-drop builders load slowly, rank poorly and lock you in. Every number below is why we write real code instead.

Google PageSpeed score higher is better
Template builder
54
Maiden City Digital
98
Page load time lower is better
Template builder
4.6s
Maiden City Digital
1.1s
Template builderMaiden City Digital
Loading speed Slow, plugin-heavy Hand-optimised code
Google ranking Generic, hard to rank SEO built into every page
Design One of thousands Unique to your brand
Monthly fees £15–40/mo forever You own it outright
Ownership Locked to platform 100% yours, portable
Services & pricing

Three ways to work with us

Honest pricing, scoped to the size of the job, not the size of an agency's overhead.

Essentials

From £495
up to £850
For small businesses ready to move on from a generic template, without overpaying.
  • 4–5 pages, mobile-first
  • Contact / booking form
  • On-page SEO basics
  • Delivered in 10–14 days
Start here

Business

From £2,750
scoped to you
For growing or multi-location businesses needing e-commerce, integrations or serious SEO.
  • Scoped on a free call
  • E-commerce & integrations
  • Competitive SEO strategy
  • Timeline based on scope
Book a call
Founding Client Offer The first 5 clients get Essentials at £350, a Founding Client badge, and 2 months of Care included.
Claim your spot
Keep it running

Monthly care plans

Care

£45/month + VAT

Managed hosting, backups and security updates.

Care Plus

£85/month + VAT

Everything in Care, plus 1.5 hours of changes a month and priority response.

Content Retainer

£135/month

8 Instagram posts + 1 newsletter a month, for brands that want their content handled with care.

Beyond the website

Everything your launch needs, under one roof

Add any of these to a package, or book them on their own. Everything is designed and delivered in-house, in the same brand system.

For performers

Artist Launch Kit

From £295

Electronic press kit, professional bio, and a 6-post Instagram launch suite with captions and a posting calendar. One link to send venues, promoters and press.

For any brand

Social Launch Pack

From £185

Six production-quality Instagram posts designed to your brand, with a caption guide written in your voice and a week-by-week publishing plan.

Identity

Brand Identity System

From £340

Logo refinement, colour palette, typography and a one-page brand sheet, so everything you publish looks like it came from the same hand.

Get found

Google Business + Local SEO Setup

From £150

Complete Google Business Profile setup and optimisation, local citations, and on-page SEO tuned for the searches your customers actually make.

Unique to us

Bilingual EN/ES Build

From £200 add-on

A true second-language version of your site, written properly, not machine-translated. We work professionally in both markets, from Derry to Spain.

Events

Event & Festival Digital Suite

Scoped per event

Event site, official poster, announcement carousels and a publishing calendar. The full pre-launch machine we run for real events.

No surprises

If you don't approve the initial design direction, we refund 50%, no questions asked. Once you approve it, every project includes two rounds of revisions. Payment: 50% to start, 50% on delivery for Essentials; larger projects split into three milestones. Ask about splitting your deposit into two interest-free instalments.

The Peace Bridge connects two sides of one city. Your website should connect you to everyone who needs to find you.
Portfolio

Some of our clients

A selection of brands and projects we've built for, across music, performance and hospitality.

Full case studies for each project are coming soon to this section.

What clients say

Don't just take our word for it

Feedback from people we've built for.

My old site barely worked on a phone, and that's where most people were trying to listen. They rebuilt it from scratch, fixed the playback issues, and put together my outreach list for radio and festivals. It actually does something for me now instead of just sitting there.

Adam HollandCountry Artist

I needed a site and a press bio that worked in two languages without reading like a translation. They got both right, and it's made it so much easier to send venues one link instead of three different documents.

Laura SheerinSoprano & Associate Lecturer

They built the whole brand for Odin's Mead Hall from nothing, the website, the booking system, the launch posts, all of it. It looks like somewhere you actually want to spend an evening, and the bookings started before we'd even opened the doors.

Tim O'SullivanOdin's Mead Hall
Maiden City Digital 14 years on stage
Why we're different

Built by someone who has lived on both sides of the poster.

Maiden City Digital was founded by Benny Rod, a professional tenor with 14 years performing internationally, credits with the National Symphony Orchestra London for HBO, and the marketing director of a working opera festival in Spain.

That matters for a simple reason: when we build for an artist, a venue or a festival, we're not guessing what works. We've sold the tickets, sent the press kits, and stood on the stage. Every other agency in town learned your industry from a brief. We learned it from the inside.

And when we build for a restaurant, a tradesperson or any growing local business, you get that same obsession with craft, applied to getting you found, trusted and chosen.

Professional tenor, 14 yrs HBO / NSO London credit Festival marketing director Working in EN & ES
Benny Rod, Founder
How it works

Four steps. No mystery.

You'll always know where your project stands, what happens next, and what it costs.

01

Discover

A free call to understand your goals, your audience and what you have now. You get an honest review, even if the answer is "your current site is fine."

02

Design

We present the design direction first. Don't approve it? 50% back, no questions asked. Approve it, and two revision rounds are included.

03

Build

Custom-coded, mobile-first, and fast. No page builders, no bloat, no platform lock-in. The code is entirely yours.

04

Launch & grow

We launch, submit to Google, and hand over the keys. Or we keep it running with a Care plan and content that stays on-brand.

FAQ

Questions, answered

Essentials: 10–14 days. Signature: around 3 weeks. Business: scoped per project on a free call.

Yes. Ask us about splitting your deposit into two interest-free payments.

Completely. No lock-in, no platform dependency. The code and the domain are yours.

If you don't approve the initial direction, you get 50% back, no questions asked.

Not at all. Roughly half our work is for restaurants, shops, trades and other local businesses across Derry, Northern Ireland and the UK. Our creative-industry background just means every client gets a site with real character, not a template with your logo on it.

Yes. We design Instagram launch suites, press kits, posters and monthly content retainers, all in the same brand system as your site, so everything you publish looks like it came from one hand.

Let's talk

Tell us about your project

Free, no-pressure review of what you have now, and what it could become.