Web design · Carlow, Co. Carlow
Carlow is one of the few South-East places where we routinely meet small businesses that have never had a website at all. The bar to clear isn't "better than the one I have" — it's just "enough to be visible to the people already looking", and that's a much easier bar.
Carlow is small — Ireland's second-smallest county by area — and well-positioned: close enough to Dublin to commute, close enough to Kilkenny to share trade, and shifting fast enough that the small-business mix we're seeing today isn't the one we were seeing five years ago. The town centre runs on the usual mix of cafés, independent retail and pubs along Dublin Street and Tullow Street; the surrounding county leans heavily on agriculture, food production, trades and small professional firms; and SETU's Carlow campus pulls in a steady student population that reshapes the food and night-time trade in semester. The question we hear from Carlow businesses more than any other in the South-East is "is it worth having a real website at all?" — and the answer is almost always yes, just much smaller and more focused than the one they were quoted.
What we do
From €799 + €19/month
A complete website assembled from a transparent catalog of pre-built blocks — heroes, booking, e-commerce, gallery, pricing, footers — customised, deployed, and maintained for you.
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Quoted in writing
When you need features the catalog can't deliver — custom booking, integrations, dashboards, multi-step flows. Quoted on scope, invoiced on completion.
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€200/hr
A paid one-hour video call with the developer. Diagnose what's wrong with an existing site — slow loads, broken payments, blocked features, SEO blackouts — and get a written quote to fix it.
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Why rohcode
Built on React + Vite + Vercel edge hosting — the same stack as the largest sites on the web. You can feel the difference against the WordPress-heavy field on day one. This very page was prerendered to static HTML at build time, which is why it loaded the way it did.
rohcode is one developer, which worries some people fairly. Two answers: sites are hosted on managed infrastructure that doesn't need me sitting in front of it to keep running, and you keep your code and your domain at all times — if anything ever happens to me, you keep your business.
Real numbers, in writing, before any conversation: build from €799 all-in, monthly €19 for hosting and maintenance, consult €200/hr, bespoke work quoted in writing on completion. No "request a quote" games and no surprise invoices.
Who we build for
Areas we cover
We work with businesses across Co. Carlow including Bagenalstown, Tullow, Borris, Leighlinbridge and Hacketstown, and with neighbouring cities — work that ranks locally for one town tends to rank well for the area around it too.
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FAQ
Builds start at €799 plus €19/month for ongoing hosting, maintenance and small content edits. That price is the same in Carlow as anywhere else in Ireland — we publish real numbers, not "request a quote".
No — rohcode is based in Waterford and works with businesses across Ireland. We have a dedicated Carlow page because it's one of the cities we hear from most. We work with Carlow and the surrounding the South-East area, including Bagenalstown, Tullow, Borris, and the build process runs the same wherever you are.
No. Every rohcode site is built with React, TypeScript and a modern hosting stack (Vercel edge) so it stays fast, doesn't need monthly plugin patching, and won't break overnight because an extension auto-updated. If you currently have a WordPress site and want to move off it, we can take you off it as part of a build.
Yes. Every site ships with a portal login that lets you edit your own copy, swap images, and update opening hours, prices, contact details and small page content — without touching code and without re-engaging us for routine changes.
From submitted build order to a launched site is typically 2–4 weeks for a standard catalog build, depending on how quickly your content and brand assets come back. Bespoke work is quoted separately with its own timeline.
One hour, on video, with the developer who would do the work. €200 charged at booking. Written scope and quote either way.
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