Web & development

Fast, accessible sites and apps — designed and built in-house.

Hands typing code on a laptop

Built to be lived with

A website is easy to admire and harder to live with. Ours are built for the second part — quick on a poor connection, usable with a keyboard or a screen reader, and straightforward enough that your team can update them without ringing us first.

We design and build in the same place: marketing sites, content-managed platforms, member and booking areas, forms and integrations with the systems you already run. Then we stay on for hosting, maintenance and the unglamorous business of keeping everything patched, tested and backed up.

Performance and accessibility are not an upgrade path here. They are how the thing gets built in the first place, because a site that fails either one is failing the people it was built for.

Reviewing a website design at a workstation

Fast on poor connections

Accessible from the start

Yours to update

How we work

From brief to backups

1. Start with what you run

We begin with the systems you already use and the people who will look after the site, so the build fits your organisation rather than forcing a new one on it.

2. Design and build together

Designers and developers work in the same place — ours. Performance and accessibility go in at the foundations, not bolted on when someone remembers to ask.

3. Stay on afterwards

Hosting, maintenance, patching, testing and backups — the quiet work that keeps a site healthy. We are still doing it for sites we launched years ago.

Two developers working through a build together

Why clients stay

Accessibility is tested, not hoped

We carry out WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility audits and remediation — including for Dublin Convention Bureau (Fáilte Ireland) — so the standards your site is built to are ones we check for a living.

Six disciplines, one roof

Design, video, marketing and the rest sit in the same Dublin studio as the developers. When your site needs more than code, the people who make it are across the room.

We build the hard ones

Alongside marketing sites we build secure, data-heavy platforms — the Team Ireland athlete portal for the Olympic Federation of Ireland among them. If your project involves logins, members or sensitive data, it will not be our first.

FAQ

Common questions

Can our own team update the site without you?

Yes — that is the standard we build to. We build on the sort of CMS your staff can actually use, so day-to-day updates do not depend on us.

Do you handle hosting and maintenance after launch?

We do. We stay on after launch for hosting, maintenance and support — keeping everything patched, tested and backed up — and we would rather you never had to think about any of it.

Can you integrate with the systems we already run?

Usually, yes. Forms, bookings, member areas and secure integrations are a normal part of a build for us, up to and including the Team Ireland athlete portal we built for the Olympic Federation of Ireland.

Testimonials

What our clients say

  • Why I enjoy working with Big Top is because it doesn’t appear to me to be a client supplier relationship. It is very much us all working on the one team working together to try and achieve the best possible outcomes.

    Kieran McSweeney

    Kieran McSweeney

    Head of Communications

    Gaelic Players Association

  • Big Top Multimedia is more than just a service provider. They’re a trusted partner. Their expertise, innovation, and ability to harness AI make them a perfect fit for our podcasting needs.

    David Powell

    David Powell

    Chief Executive

    CAW Network USA

  • Was perfect. Love working with this team can’t recommend enough.

    Ruth Liddle

    Ruth Liddle

    Co-Founder

    The Kildare Gallery

Ready when you are

Let us make something worth talking about.

Tell us what you are planning. One team, every medium, no hand-offs.