Websites and print, built properly.
A Belfast studio working for businesses across the UK and Ireland, and a few a good deal further — Antibes, Mauritius, Essex, Glasgow, Liverpool. First website built in 2001. You deal with the person doing the work, and you own everything at the end of it.
Real sites, shown as they actually are.
Every image below is a live screenshot of the site as it stands today. No mockups, no watermark, nothing staged. Click through and judge them yourself.
Also on the go, or recently finished
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- Heating & Energy SolutionsWebsite & online shop
- Fitter FinancesWebsite & lead capture quiz
- Taylor Farm SuppliesWebsite design & build
- He Hath DoneWebsite design & build
- Hope2FamiliesWebsite design & build
- The Joy FoundationWebsite design & build
- Omagh Free Presbyterian ChurchWebsite design & build
- Brookside Presbyterian ChurchWebsite design & build
- FPC Mainland CommissionWebsite & donations
- Ramoan & Culfeightrin ParishesWebsite design & build
- Ahoghill Community PlaygroupWebsite design & build
- Martin DonnellyWebsite design & build
- ECOHomes StoreOnline shop
- Shellfield BuildersWebsite design & build
- Moollan & MoollanWebsite design & build
- WPKlenzeProduct site
- Hello HousekeepingWebsite design & build
- Make Learning EasyWebsite design & build
We will redesign your homepage for free.
Send us your address and we will send back a proper concept of your homepage — desktop and mobile, with the copy written. Usually within 24 hours, always within two working days. No payment, no obligation, and it is yours to keep whatever you decide.
We would rather show you the work than tell you about it. If the concept is not right, you have lost nothing and we have lost a couple of days — which is the correct way round.
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Takes 2 minutes
Send us your address
Your current web address and a line about what you would like to be better.
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Usually within 24 hours
We design your homepage
A real concept, desktop and mobile, with copy written for the new layout. Not a wireframe.
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No strings
You keep it either way
Like it and we can talk about building it. Do not, and the concept is still yours.
Five things, done by the same people.
Most firms here need two or three of these and nobody to project-manage the gaps between them. That is the whole idea.
Website design & build
Built to be quick, to work on a phone, and to be edited by you afterwards.
Logo & brand identity
A mark you own outright, supplied in every format you will ever be asked for.
Brochures, signage, vehicle graphics, stationery. Still a third of what we do, and some of these clients have been with us since before the websites.
Search marketing
Getting found for the things people actually type. No lock-in, no jargon.
Video production
Filmed, edited and captioned here. Useful on a website, not just on Instagram.
A digital contact page
One page, one tap to ring, message or find you. Through Contact Local, which is ours.
A website, from
Designed and built properly, yours outright. Fixed price once we have talked.
Hosting and backups, a month
Domain, hosting, backups. No support included at this level.
Looked after, a month
The same, plus updates, monitoring, security and someone at the end of the phone.
Every one of those is a starting figure, not a quote. What you get told at the first conversation is a fixed price for a described piece of work — and if your budget will not stretch to what you have described, you will hear that then rather than three weeks in.
A website is not finished when it launches.
Most of the trouble we get called about is on sites somebody built and walked away from. Every site we look after gets the same baseline, and we would rather tell you plainly what that means than call it a “care plan”.
Kept up to date
WordPress, plugins and PHP kept current, checked after every update rather than set to auto and hoped for.
Backed up and monitored
Off-site backups, malware scanning, and a firewall that is actually configured. If something breaks we usually know before you do.
Spam kept out of your inbox
Contact forms filtered on four layers, and anything blocked is quarantined rather than deleted, so a real enquiry can never vanish silently.
Four of us, and no layers.
Smile Creative is Brendan O’Hagan and three specialists he has worked with for years. A small collective rather than a company with departments, which means no account managers, no juniors learning on your job, and the person who answers the phone is the person doing the work.
First website built in 2001, doing this properly as a business since 2008. Web is most of the work now. Print never went away, and a good number of those clients have been with us the whole time.
We would rather lose the job.
We would sooner walk away than wear you down into buying something so we can hit target.
We don’t sustain our business at the expense of yours. You know the type — persistent, always has a comeback, keeps calling until you sign just to get some peace. Then the work that turns up is a shadow of what got promised, and suddenly they’re hard to reach. That’s not us.
We’d rather be boring. Not the finished website — that should turn heads — but everything behind it: no fuss, no chasing, just get the job done, not get the job at any cost. A quote is a fixed price for a described piece of work, not an opening position.
When we do get something wrong, we put it right — sometimes at our own expense, sometimes long after the invoice was paid. That’s cost us real money over the years. We’d rather that than leave a client with something we’re not proud of.
No mystery, no account manager.
A conversation
Twenty minutes on the phone or in person. Free, and you are not signing anything.
A written quote
One page, fixed price, itemised. You will know what is included and what is not.
Design, then build
You see it before it is built, and again before it goes live. Changes at that stage cost nothing.
Live, and looked after
Handover, training if you want it, and someone at the end of the phone afterwards.
The questions people ask before they ring.
Do I own the website?
Yes, outright — the domain, the hosting account and the files. If you ever want to move it elsewhere we will help you do that rather than make it difficult.
What does it cost?
Websites start at £395, and a one-page digital contact page is £45 through Contact Local. A quote is free and it is a fixed price, not an estimate that grows. If your budget will not stretch to what you have described, we will say so at the first conversation rather than three weeks in.
Who actually does the work?
The people you meet. No work is passed to an agency you have never heard of.
Do you do social media?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. We do not believe an outside agency posting on your behalf actually works — it never sounds like you, because it is not you. If you want your own accounts set up properly so your own people can run them, that we are happy to do.
Who are you not right for?
If you need a large e-commerce platform, an app, or a team of ten on retainer, we are not the right fit and we will tell you who is. We are good at websites for local businesses that need to look serious and bring in work.
Tell us what you are trying to do.
Not sure what you need yet? That is a normal place to start. Ring, or send a couple of lines and we will come back to you.
Moat House, 54 Bloomfield Avenue
Belfast BT5 5AD
Monday to Friday, 9am – 5pm
