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01Websites

Bespoke sites
for people who sell.

Every site is designed and built for your business, never from a template. These are all ours, built from scratch. Scroll on for recent work.

Bespoke build · live

DigiOp
.ie

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DigiOp.ie digital capture and equipment hire website on desktop
Bespoke build · booking system

Lit
Studios

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Lit Studios photography studio hire website on desktop
Bespoke build · ecommerce

Ecru
Studios

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Ecru Studios online shop on desktop
Bespoke build · photobook shop

Only Camera
in the Room

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Only Camera in the Room, a photobook website and shop built by Dylan Madden
Bespoke build · new design

Simpson
Property

In build
Simpson Property Maintenance website on desktop
Bespoke build · live

Pooch
Pals

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Pooch Pals dog walking website on desktop
Bespoke build · live

Maria
Whiting

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Maria Whiting makeup artist and hair stylist portfolio website on desktop
02Photography

Photography

Advertising, commercial, hair, portrait, ecommerce, corporate and lifestyle photography, shot to make people stop and look twice. Swipe along, and tap any frame to see it full size.

03Services

What we do.

01

Photography

Commercial and advertising photography for brands that sell. We lead with campaign work and follow it with ecommerce, product and still life, then corporate and headshots, and hair and fashion. Shot in our studio or at your premises, with you watching every frame come up live. You get finished, retouched images ready for your shop, your website, your social and your print.

  • Commercial and advertising
  • Ecommerce and still life
  • Corporate and headshots
  • Hair and fashion
  • Retouching included
02

Video
and reels

Short films and social reels that move your brand. We film, cut and finish them with sound, from a lookbook reel flicking through your new collection to a product film, a behind the scenes cut or the highlights of an event.

  • Lookbook and social reels
  • Product and brand films
  • Behind the scenes
  • Event highlights
  • Editing and sound
03

Retouching

Beauty, fashion and product retouching, composites and finished campaign artwork. We take your images from raw to ready to print or post, and keep every file consistent across a shoot or a collection.

  • Beauty and skin
  • Fashion and product
  • Composites and campaign artwork
  • Colour and grading
  • Fast turnaround
04

Bespoke websites

Every site is designed and built for one business, never a template with your logo dropped in. Fast on a phone, shaped around your brand, built to be found on Google and easy to look after once it is live.

  • Bespoke design and build
  • Ecommerce
  • Booking systems
  • Search foundations
  • Page structure and copy
05

Brand
and logo

A logo and identity built for how your business really shows up, on your website, your social and your signage. You get the files for every use and a simple guide, so it stays consistent long after we have finished.

  • Logo and marks
  • Colours and type
  • Favicon and app icon
  • Social and email kit
06

WordPress
to static

Keep the bespoke site you paid for and lose everything that keeps breaking it. We turn your WordPress site into fast, plain pages, fix what is wrong along the way, and look after it afterwards.

  • Faster pages
  • Nothing to hack
  • Nothing to update
  • Lower running costs
  • Aftercare

How it works ↓

And on the side, apps for photographers at digiopapps.com.

Built into every site

Ready to be found, from day one.

Most of what makes a website work happens where you cannot see it. This is what we build into every site, so it can be found, trusted and understood, by search engines and by AI assistants.

Fast pages

Pages load as plain files, so they open quickly on a phone and nothing sits waiting on a database.

Clean structure

One clear heading per page and tidy markup, so search engines and AI tools understand what each page is about.

Business details they can read

Your name, services, area and contact details written in the form search engines and AI tools read directly.

Every image described

Proper descriptions on every image, for people using screen readers and for search.

Sitemap and signposts

A sitemap and robots file that tell search engines exactly which pages exist.

Share cards

A proper preview, with picture and title, when your link is shared on social, WhatsApp or email.

Private tracking

Visits counted only with consent, so you can see what is working without surprising anyone.

Old addresses kept

When we rebuild a site, existing pages keep their address or redirect to it, so nothing you have earned is lost.

Readable by AI assistants

Your business details, services and pages are written so tools like ChatGPT and Google's AI answers can read them and describe you correctly.

We build the foundations and we measure them. We do not promise rankings, because nobody honestly can.

WordPress to static

Tired of WordPress? Keep the site. Lose the problems.

If any of these sound familiar, you are not alone. They are the things WordPress owners say most, and every one of them goes away when the site is rebuilt as plain, fast pages.

An update broke the site. Again.
I think we have been hacked, or I am waiting to be.
It takes forever to load on my phone.
I pay every month and I am not sure what for.
Nobody ever explains what is going on.
11,334new WordPress vulnerabilities found in 2025, up 42% on the year before. 91% were in plugins.
About halfof the most serious ones were being attacked within 24 hours of being made public.

Source: Patchstack, State of WordPress Security 2026

No more broken updates

There are no plugins to update, so there is nothing to conflict. Your site looks the same next month as it does today.

Nothing to hack

No login page, no database and no plugins. The most common way WordPress sites get attacked is simply not there.

Opens instantly

Pages are plain files, so they open the moment someone taps. Visitors stay, and plain, tidy pages are also easier for search engines and AI assistants to read.

A bill you can read

Simple hosting, no premium plugin licences and no rescue jobs. You know what you pay and why.

Plain English, one person

You deal with the same person every time, who explains things simply and answers when you ask.

Consent done properly

Visits are only counted with consent, so you can see what is working without worrying about the rules.

WordPress todayBespoke static
SpeedWaits on a database for every visitInstant, plain files
AttacksA constant target for botsNothing to attack
UpdatesMonthly worry, sometimes a broken siteNone
CostPlugins, licences, rescue jobsSimple hosting
Your designYoursExactly the same, and still yours
01Copy

We take a full copy of your live site and keep it safe. Nothing changes yet.

02Rebuild

We turn it into fast static pages and fix what we find: broken links, missing image descriptions, heavy images, search basics.

03Check, then launch

You review it side by side. It goes live only when you say, and a restore point stays in place in case you want to go back.

Free guides

Move your WordPress site to staticYour WordPress site was hacked. What to do firstA plugin update broke your site. How to get it backWhy your WordPress site is slow on mobileStatic site or WordPress? An honest comparison
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See how we did it for ECRU Studios →

We'll take a look and tell you straight what we would change. After launch we can look after the hosting, backups and any changes.

04About

Who
we are.

We shoot commercial, ecommerce and corporate campaigns for brands, retailers and agencies. We don't just capture the work, we build bespoke digital platforms that put our clients in front of the right audience.

Most brands hire one agency for production and another for web development, spending months trying to align the two. We handle both. The aesthetic, the speed and the brand message are unified from day one.

Everything we deliver is engineered for real world performance: pin sharp assets, clean code and internal tools that save your team hours. And because we actively develop software for photographers, we know exactly what it takes to make a shoot run smoothly.

DublinWorking across IrelandPhotography, retouching and web, joined up
05Contact

Let's talk.

Photography, a new site, a shop, or a WordPress site that has had enough. Fill in the form and we will reply within a day or two, or email us directly:

info@dylanmadden.ie

Dublin, working across Ireland.

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