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.

Makkah Province

Web design and development in Jeddah

We deliver website design, development, software and search visibility for organisations in Jeddah, Makkah Province. The local economy here is led by maritime trade, shipping and logistics, hajj and umrah services, aviation and travel. We have a staffed office in the city. 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 Jeddah

Population	3,751,722 (GASTAT Saudi Census 2022, city) — source
Region	Makkah Province
Coordinates	21.4858, 39.1925
Our presence	Staffed office
Economic zones	Jeddah Islamic Port and its logistics/bonded zones · MODON Jeddah industrial cities (1st, 2nd, 3rd) · Jeddah Central Development (waterfront redevelopment)
Languages	Arabic and English

02Local industries we build for

What gets built in Jeddah

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

01

Maritime trade, shipping and logistics — Jeddah Islamic Port is the Kingdom's largest Red Sea port, 12.5 km long, 5,000+ cargo ships/year, 75% of Saudi maritime transshipment
02

Hajj and Umrah services — gateway city; 82.2% of external Umrah performers arrive by air, largely through Jeddah
03

Aviation and travel — King Abdulaziz International Airport, 35.8 million passengers in 2018, the Kingdom's busiest
04

Wholesale/retail trade and consumer goods importing
05

Creative industries, advertising, fashion and hospitality
06

Manufacturing and food processing

03Local context

What is different about this market

How buyers here procure

The Kingdom's traditional merchant-trading capital — very high density of family-owned importers, distributors and trading houses that are now digitising catalogue and B2B ordering
Strongest commercial creative and agency scene outside Riyadh; clients expect visual craft, not just delivery, and pitch culture is real
Hajj/Umrah operator ecosystem needs multilingual sites well beyond Arabic and English — Urdu, Bahasa Indonesia, Turkish, French and Bengali are commercially material
Heavy SME retail and F&B base with Instagram/Snapchat-first discovery and WhatsApp-based ordering

Districts and landmarks

Historic Jeddah / Al-Balad (UNESCO World Heritage)
Corniche and King Fahd's Fountain (world's tallest fountain)
Tahlia Street (Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz St)
Al-Hamra and Ar-Rawdah districts

Vision 2030 here

Jeddah Central Project — waterfront district with stadium, opera house, museum and marina
Historic Jeddah revitalisation programme
FIFA World Cup 2034 host city — 4 stadiums (King Abdullah Sport City, Qiddiya Coast, Jeddah Central, KAEC)

04Services

What we deliver in Jeddah

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 Makkah (70km), King Abdullah Economic City (104km), Taif (129km), Rabigh (147km). Projects across this corridor are usually run by the same team, which keeps the travel and the handovers down.