How long does a bilingual website take?

A corporate bilingual site is typically six to ten weeks from kickoff to launch. Roughly a third of that is content: Arabic copy written natively rather than translated is the single most common cause of a slipped launch date, so we agree the content plan in week one.

Do you design in Arabic or translate afterwards?

We design both directions at once. Arabic sets denser than Latin, needs more line height, and cannot be letter-spaced without breaking glyph joining. Layouts built with CSS logical properties mirror correctly with no separate stylesheet, which is why we build them that way from the first component.

Can you keep our existing URLs?

Yes, and it is usually the right call. Rankings attach to URLs. We map every existing address to a new template rather than renaming anything, so no redirects are needed and no equity is lost. Where a redirect is genuinely unavoidable we issue a single permanent 301 with no chaining.

Eastern Province

Web design and development in Dhahran

We deliver website design, development, software and search visibility for organisations in Dhahran, Eastern Province. The local economy here is led by oil and gas corporate headquarters, higher education and research, r&d, energy technology and startups. This is a service area: we work remotely and on site from our nearest office, and we do not claim premises here. Work is delivered in Arabic and English, with published price bands and a stated performance target on every template.

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01Key facts

About Dhahran

Population	143,936 (GASTAT Saudi Census 2022) — source
Region	Eastern Province
Coordinates	26.2361, 50.0393
Our presence	Service area — delivered remotely and on site, from our nearest office.
Economic zones	Dhahran Techno Valley Science Park (KFUPM-anchored) · Aramco's Ithra/EXPEC corporate campus zone · King Salman Energy Park (SPARK) in the same corridor toward Buqayq
Languages	Arabic and English

02Local industries we build for

What gets built in Dhahran

The local economy decides what kind of website a client actually needs. These are the sectors that dominate here.

01

Oil and gas corporate headquarters — Saudi Aramco has been headquartered here for ~90 years; the company produces roughly 10 million barrels per day
02

Higher education and research — King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
03

R&D, energy technology and startups — Dhahran Techno Valley
04

Culture and knowledge economy — King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra)
05

Corporate/professional services serving Aramco's vendor ecosystem

03Local context

What is different about this market

How buyers here procure

Buyers are largely institutional (Aramco, KFUPM, Ithra) — procurement is formal, vendor registration is mandatory, and brand guideline compliance is enforced strictly
Deep technical/academic audience: research portals, publication libraries, event microsites and bilingual conference platforms are recurring briefs
Startup and accelerator activity around Dhahran Techno Valley creates a second, much faster-moving client type (MVPs, pitch sites, product UX) alongside the enterprise work
Highest concentration of English-first professional readers in the Kingdom

Districts and landmarks

King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra)
KFUPM campus and its clock tower
Dhahran Techno Valley
Mall of Dhahran
Aramco residential camp districts: Doha, Dana, Al-Jamiah

Vision 2030 here

Dhahran Techno Valley as a node in the national innovation and localisation agenda
Ithra as a flagship of the Quality of Life Program
Aramco's IKTVA local-content programme, which drives supplier digitisation across the province

04Services

What we deliver in Dhahran

Website Design

Bilingual, standards-compliant websites for Saudi organisations that are judged on how they look and audited on how they perform.

Web Development

Hand-written front ends and maintainable back ends. No page builders, no plugin sprawl, no bloat you inherit.

UI/UX Design

Research, interface design and usability testing for products people have to use, not just visit.

E-commerce Development

Saudi storefronts built for Mada, Apple Pay and Tabby, with ZATCA-compliant invoicing wired in from day one.

Software Development

Custom business systems for organisations whose processes do not fit an off-the-shelf product.

AI & Automation

Arabic-capable assistants, document automation and retrieval systems — scoped against a measurable business outcome, not a demo.

Nearby

We also work with clients in Al Khobar (18km), Dammam (21km), Qatif (36km), Jubail (94km). Projects across this corridor are usually run by the same team, which keeps the travel and the handovers down.