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 Makkah

We deliver website design, development, software and search visibility for organisations in Makkah, Makkah Province. The local economy here is led by hajj and umrah services, hospitality and hotels, religious tourism retail, catering and transport. 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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Makkah

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01Key facts

About Makkah

Population	2,385,509 (GASTAT Saudi Census 2022, city) — source
Region	Makkah Province
Coordinates	21.3891, 39.8579
Our presence	Service area — delivered remotely and on site, from our nearest office.
Economic zones	Makkah Route Initiative (pre-clearance at origin airports) · Mashaer Al Mugaddassah Metro corridor · Masar Destination and King Abdulaziz Road development
Languages	Arabic and English

02Local industries we build for

What gets built in Makkah

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

01

Hajj and Umrah services — 1,673,230 Hajj pilgrims in 1446H (2025), of whom 1,506,576 came from outside the Kingdom; 15,222,497 Umrah performers in Q1 2025 alone
02

Hospitality and hotels — one of the world's densest concentrations of high-rise hotel keys
03

Religious tourism retail, catering and transport
04

Construction and real estate around the Haram expansion
05

Charitable/waqf and religious institutional sector

03Local context

What is different about this market

How buyers here procure

Almost every commercial site is multilingual by necessity — Arabic plus Urdu, Bahasa Indonesia, Turkish, Malay, French, Bengali and English are commercially material, which makes RTL/LTR-mixed CMS architecture the single biggest technical constraint
Extreme, calendar-driven seasonality: traffic and conversion spike around Ramadan and Dhul-Hijjah, so infrastructure must be provisioned for order-of-magnitude bursts rather than steady load
Heavily regulated sector — Hajj/Umrah operators must integrate with Ministry of Hajj and Umrah systems (Nusuk), so integration and compliance work outweighs conventional marketing work
Very high share of first-time, low-bandwidth, mid-tier-Android international users — performance budgets and offline-tolerant UX matter more than visual richness

Districts and landmarks

Masjid al-Haram and the Kaaba
Abraj Al Bait / Makkah Royal Clock Tower
Jabal al-Nour and the Cave of Hira
Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah (the Mashaer)
Al-Aziziyah and Al-Shisha districts

Vision 2030 here

Doubling Umrah capacity toward 30 million pilgrims per year under the Pilgrim Experience Program
Nusuk / Nusuk Masar digital pilgrimage platform and unified permit system
Masar Destination — 1.2 million m² corridor to the Haram
Rua Al Haram Al Makki (King Abdulaziz Road) development

04Services

What we deliver in Makkah

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 Taif (59km), Jeddah (70km), King Abdullah Economic City (138km), Rabigh (178km). Projects across this corridor are usually run by the same team, which keeps the travel and the handovers down.