At Giant Elk Creative we design and develop websites that are carefully crafted, technically solid, and creatively unexpected. Our websites make your audience pay attention and your competitors wonder who built it.
Your website is often the first real conversation someone has with your brand. It needs to load fast, work on every device, rank well, and convert visitors into customers — but it also needs to feel like something. Too many websites are technically competent and completely forgettable. We've spent ten years building the other kind.
Since 2016, we've designed, developed and maintained hundreds of websites for businesses of every size — from Irish SMEs and startups to large corporates and international companies. B2B and B2C. Lead generation and eCommerce. Brand awareness and sales. Whatever your website needs to do, we'll make it do it well — and look unlike anything else in your industry while it does.
Everything your website needs under one roof
Most agencies do one thing well. You get a beautiful design from one team, then hand it to developers who dilute it, then hire a copywriter who's never seen your brand guidelines, then scramble to figure out hosting and SEO after launch. The result is a website that feels stitched together by committee.
At Giant Elk, we handle the lot. Design, development, content, branding, SEO, hosting, and ongoing support — all from one team that understands your brand inside out. That's how you get a website where every detail works together, and nothing gets lost in translation.
How we build your website
Every website we build follows a clear, proven process — refined over ten years and hundreds of projects. It's collaborative and transparent, with your team involved at every stage. No disappearing acts, no big reveal six weeks later. You see the work as it develops, and you shape it with us.
Discovery & strategy
Before we design anything, we need to understand your business, your audience, and your goals. What is this website actually for? Who's using it? What should they do when they get there? Through discovery workshops and research, we define the strategy that drives every creative and technical decision.
Having built websites across multiple industries and business types, we bring perspective that helps us see opportunities your competitors are missing.
What this stage delivers: Discovery workshop, competitor and audience research, sitemap, content strategy, technical requirements, and a project brief that becomes the blueprint for the build.
Content & brand
This is where most web projects stall and where Giant Elk is different. We write your content and define your visual direction before development begins, not during it. Our content team drafts every page from headlines and service descriptions to calls to action and metadata while our designers translate your brand into a digital visual language.
If you're a client who also needs branding, this is where the two workstreams merge. The brand informs the website. The website pressure-tests the brand. Both are stronger for it.
What this stage delivers: Full page copy for every page, tone of voice guidance, wireframes, visual design concepts, and brand-to-web design specifications.
Design & refine
With content and strategy locked, we design your website — page by page, section by section. You see concepts early, give feedback often, and watch the design evolve through iterative rounds. We design for desktop, tablet, and mobile simultaneously, and we sweat the details that most agencies skip: micro-interactions, hover states, loading behaviour, content hierarchy, and the small creative choices that make a site feel considered rather than assembled.
This is where the unexpected happens. We push past the obvious layout, the predictable colour choice, the stock-photo hero — and find the version that makes your site genuinely distinctive.
What this stage delivers: Full-page designs for all key templates, responsive layouts, interactive prototypes where needed, and design sign-off before a line of code is written.
Development & testing
Our developers bring the designs to life with clean, modern code — primarily on WordPress, with Shopify, Squarespace, or custom solutions where the project demands it. Every build is optimised for speed, security, accessibility, and SEO from the start. We test across devices, browsers, and screen sizes, and we don't cut corners on performance.
What this stage delivers: Fully built, responsive website on your chosen platform. Speed optimisation, SEO setup, accessibility testing, security configuration, and content population.
Launch & ongoing support
We manage the launch — DNS, redirects, analytics, tracking, final QA — so nothing falls through the cracks. Once you're live, we don't disappear. We offer hosting, ongoing maintenance, and support agreements tailored to how you work — whether that's a structured monthly retainer or ad-hoc requests as they come up. Your website should grow with your business, and we make sure it does.
What this stage delivers: Managed launch, hosting setup, analytics and tracking configuration, training for your team, and an ongoing support agreement tailored to your needs.
We build websites that look great and are easy to use. Whether it’s for brand promotion, corporate lead generation or eCommerce, your new website will help you grow.
Who we build websites for
Over the past decade years, we've designed and built websites for businesses at every stage and scale. The goals vary — some need to generate leads, some need to sell products, some need to establish credibility in a new market — but the standard doesn't. Every site we build is held to the same level of craft, performance, and creative ambition.
Our work, your success story
