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 Rabigh

We deliver website design, development, software and search visibility for organisations in Rabigh, Makkah Province. The local economy here is led by oil refining and petrochemicals, power generation and cement production, ports and logistics. 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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Rabigh

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01Key facts

About Rabigh

Population	112,383 (GASTAT Saudi Census 2022, Rabigh Governorate) — source
Region	Makkah Province
Coordinates	22.7986, 39.0349
Our presence	Service area — delivered remotely and on site, from our nearest office.
Economic zones	King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) and its Industrial Valley lie within Rabigh Governorate · KAEC Special Economic Zone (ECZA, 2023) · Petro Rabigh industrial estate
Languages	Arabic and English

02Local industries we build for

What gets built in Rabigh

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

01

Oil refining and petrochemicals — Petro Rabigh (an Aramco affiliate) is the anchor industrial employer
02

Power generation and cement production
03

Ports and logistics — King Abdullah Port sits within Rabigh's jurisdiction
04

Higher education and research — King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is on the Rabigh-Thuwal coast
05

Fishing and coastal agriculture (dates, wheat, watermelon, vegetables)
06

Hajj-route services — Al-Juhfah is a designated miqat (pilgrimage station)

03Local context

What is different about this market

How buyers here procure

A small municipality carrying disproportionate industrial and institutional weight — the real clients are Petro Rabigh's contractor ecosystem, KAEC tenants and KAUST-adjacent research and startup activity
KAUST creates a genuinely international, English-first research and commercialisation audience unusual for a town this size
Local SME work is thin; the sustainable model is servicing industrial contractors and SEZ tenants rather than the resident population
Hajj-route miqat traffic gives seasonal service businesses (transport, catering, ihram retail) a sharp annual peak

Districts and landmarks

Al-Juhfah miqat
Alia Historical Palace
Al-Juhfa Fort
Petro Rabigh industrial complex and King Abdullah Port

Vision 2030 here

KAEC Special Economic Zone — 60 km², advanced manufacturing, logistics, automotive supply chain, consumer goods, ICT and medtech
Haramain High-Speed Railway station serving KAEC/Rabigh
Red Sea west-coast industrial and logistics corridor development

04Services

What we deliver in Rabigh

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 King Abdullah Economic City (43km), Jeddah (147km), Yanbu (175km), Makkah (178km). Projects across this corridor are usually run by the same team, which keeps the travel and the handovers down.