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Websites & software in St Julian's

St Julian's

In St Julian's, business and leisure share the same streets. Paceville's hotels, restaurants and conference venues sit a short walk from Portomaso, where iGaming and tech companies occupy the Business Tower. Around them, a supplier ecosystem has grown up, from affiliate platforms and compliance consultancies to payment providers and recruiters, and it runs on data that needs the right tools. MDEPARTMENT, a digital studio from Germany, builds for companies like these. Our custom software development covers affiliate and reporting dashboards, candidate portals, booking systems and API integrations between platforms. For hotels, venues and event organisers, our web design in St Julian's focuses on fast, multilingual, accessible websites that take direct bookings and enquiries. Websites start at €3,000 and custom software at €15,000, always as a fixed price agreed after a first conversation.

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Software &
digital products

Custom software that supports your processes and grows with you — from analysis to operation.

Websites &
e-commerce

Bespoke online shops and fast websites that generate enquiries.

Brand &
performance

A presence people recognise — and technology that performs on Google and on smartphones.

St Julian's (San Ġiljan) is the heart of Malta's hospitality and iGaming economy. Hotels, restaurants, nightlife and conference venues centre on Paceville. Portomaso, with the 23-floor Portomaso Business Tower and its marina, is a well-known commercial address on the island and popular with iGaming companies and tech firms. Online gambling has been regulated by the Malta Gaming Authority since 2001 and has become one of the pillars of the Maltese economy. Its pull on international talent shows in the town itself: in July 2024, foreign nationals outnumbered Maltese citizens among its residents. St Julian's also borders the seafront office cluster of Sliema. For a German digital studio, the B2B opportunity lies less with the gaming operators themselves than with their supplier ecosystem: affiliate platforms, compliance consultancies, payment providers, recruiters and hospitality groups that need websites, dashboards and custom tools.

Key industries

  • iGaming and its supplier ecosystem
  • Hotels, hospitality and nightlife
  • Tech and software
  • Financial services and payments
  • Real estate and construction
  • Conferences and events

Business and commercial areas

  • Portomaso (Portomaso Business Tower and marina)
  • Paceville
  • Tigné Point / Sliema seafront (Sliema)
  • Malta Life Sciences Park (San Ġwann)

Sources: Wikipedia: St. Julian's, Malta · Wikipedia: Portomaso Business Tower · Wikipedia: Malta Gaming Authority · officespace.rent: Best areas for offices in Malta

250+ Projects — Successfully delivered
ProjectsSuccessfully delivered
14+ Years — Of studio experience
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Strategy
and analysis

A precise look at the status quo as the foundation for your success.

Development
and build

Visual identity and technical excellence from a single source.

Implementation
and operations

From the first draft to a stable go-live — and beyond.

How much does a project in St Julian's cost?

Website

from €3,000

Custom software

from €15,000

Fixed prices following a free initial consultation. Invoiced in euro, with monthly instalments available on request.

Remote, personal, reliable

Our studio is based in Germany and has worked with businesses across Europe for years. Projects run remotely with dedicated contacts and are conducted in English — or in German, if you prefer. On request, we come to you for workshops.

Frequently asked questions — St Julian's

How quickly can a hotel or event website go live?

A focused website for a hotel, restaurant or venue usually goes live within four to eight weeks. Connecting a booking engine, adding several languages or building an events calendar extends that timeline, and we tell you by how much before work starts. In St Julian's, timing often follows the season or a fixed conference date, so we plan backwards from it. If necessary, we launch in stages: a landing page for ticket sales or room offers first, the full site afterwards. The factor that decides the schedule most often is content, meaning photos, texts and prices that are ready on time.

Can you take on custom software development for iGaming suppliers?

Yes, for the B2B side of the industry. Affiliate platforms often need dashboards that pull figures from several partner interfaces into one consistent view. Compliance consultancies benefit from client portals with document handling and deadline tracking. Recruiters gain from candidate portals and job boards connected to their database, and payment providers from merchant onboarding tools. A clearly defined tool of this kind is typically ready in eight to twelve weeks. Regulatory requirements are set by you and your compliance advisers; we implement them technically. The source code belongs to you, so you are never tied to us.

Who looks after the website or software after launch?

If you wish, we do, under a maintenance agreement: security updates, framework and dependency updates, monitoring, backups and small content or feature changes, with response times agreed in writing. Hosting takes place in data centres within the EU. For hospitality businesses, that means the booking path keeps working during peak season; for software suppliers, it means interfaces stay stable when partners change their APIs. Some clients prefer to run the system themselves. In that case, we hand over complete documentation and brief your in-house developers, so the project does not depend on us.

Do you come to St Julian's in person, or does everything happen online?

Most of the work happens online, and that is a deliberate way of working rather than a compromise. We have no office in Malta. Instead, you get one fixed contact person, video calls in the same time zone, a shared project board and a test environment where you can follow progress at any time. The project language is English or German. Where a meeting in person makes a difference, such as a kick-off with the management of a hotel group or a design workshop with several departments, we come to St Julian's and plan the visit into the project from the outset.

Peak season, a conference week or a new market launch rarely waits for an IT backlog. If you already know the date by which a site or tool needs to be live, tell us, and we will plan backwards from it. Workshops can take place in St Julian's if you prefer; the rest of the project runs remotely, with one contact person from start to finish.

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