Arabic-first website design for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Website designer in Riyadh for Arabic-first company sites with an English twin
I'm Maniruzzaman Jubayer, and as your website designer in Riyadh I lead a senior team that designs Saudi company websites in Arabic first, with an English twin, PDPL-aware forms and a CMS your own staff can run. We work from Dhaka, three hours ahead of you, on the same Sunday to Thursday week, so a question sent on Thursday morning is answered before your weekend starts.
In Riyadh the Arabic homepage is the company's front door, so it is the page I design first.
Free 30 min intro call on your week · One fixed quote for the whole site · No retainer
Founders and marketing teams who have trusted my team with their sites
- Years leading a design team
- 3+
- Products shipped
- 50+
- Behance gallery features
- 22
Product designer and design lead, with a senior team behind me
Arabic website design in Saudi Arabia: where Riyadh company sites fall short
CST's Saudi Internet Report 2024 found that phones carry 99.4% of browsing in the Kingdom and that 93.1% of online shopping happens on local websites. Saudi buyers expect a Saudi company to read like one, in Arabic, on a phone. These are the gaps I see most.
Problem 01
Arabic poured into an English layout
Many Riyadh sites are designed in English and filled with Arabic at the end, so headlines wrap badly, buttons clip and the Arabic pages rank for nothing. I design each template with real Arabic copy first, then give the English twin its own address, linked by hreflang.
Problem 02
Forms that collect before they ask
The PDPL expects your privacy policy to be readable before any personal data is collected, and prior consent before marketing messages, with a clear way to stop them. It reaches foreign firms handling residents' data too. I design forms that link the notice, separate each consent and keep a record.
Problem 03
Buyers cannot see who you are
A buyer who wants to check you needs your registration details, and the E-Commerce Law makes online stores show their name, contact details and commercial registration number. Many sites hide all three behind a web form. I design a footer and contact page that put them in plain sight.
Problem 04
Nobody can update the Arabic pages
After launch the English pages get edited while the Arabic ones wait for a developer, so a Ramadan offer or a tender notice goes live in one language only. I set up a CMS where every entry holds both languages and train your editors to publish without a ticket.
Three website projects chosen for Riyadh's property, legal and finance sectors
A website for a real estate law firm, website and product screens for an AI property advisor in the UAE market, and a landing page for a fintech partner, all designed by my team. Property and finance carry licence rules onto their websites in the Kingdom, and the Ministry of Justice has opened legal services to international firms, which is why I chose these three.
Website design · Legal
JurisLex
A website and identity for a Sydney-based firm specialising in real estate law.
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Website design · Product design · Real estate
Lyvio
An AI real estate platform for the UAE market: the website, the product screens and the identity behind them.
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Landing page · Fintech
FinFuse
A fintech landing page with its typography, colour palette and the full page design.
View case study →Can a Saudi buyer find your CR number and WhatsApp on a phone?
Marhaba, book a callWhat bilingual website design for Riyadh includes
What leaves my team's hands at the end: the templates, the details your buyers look for and a site your staff can keep current.
Arabic templates first
Layouts drawn around real Arabic headlines and paragraphs, with paired Arabic and Latin typefaces, before any English text is placed in the twin.
Paired addresses and hreflang
/ar and /en addresses for every page, hreflang tags that name both versions, an x-default fallback and Arabic meta titles drafted from the words Saudis actually type.
PDPL consent in every form
The privacy notice linked before the first field, separate unticked boxes for email, SMS or WhatsApp marketing, cookie choices that mean something and a stored record of each consent.
A footer Saudi buyers trust
Your commercial registration number, national address, Saudi phone and WhatsApp contact, plus any licence your sector must show, such as a SAMA or REGA licence number.
A bilingual CMS your staff run
Arabic and English fields in each CMS entry, news and tender dates that can show Hijri next to Gregorian, and a training session for your editors in Riyadh hours.
Fast on a phone
Arabic font files cut to the glyphs you use, images sized per screen and third-party scripts kept few, so the main content shows within 2.5 seconds on a mid-range phone.
My process for a website redesign in Saudi Arabia
The method behind my website design service, reshaped for Riyadh: Arabic before English, Saudi disclosure rules in the scope and sign-off from several managers, all inside your working week.
- 01
Free 30 minute intro call
We spend half an hour on video, any day from Sunday to Thursday. I look at your site with you, ask who signs it off and what buyers keep asking your sales team, and tell you honestly if the job suits us.
- 02
Written scope and one fixed quote
You receive a document naming each Arabic and English template, every form field and the consent it needs, the registration and licence details to display, and how many review rounds you get. One price covers all of it, with no retainer.
- 03
Arabic-first design and build
Arabic homepage and core templates first, English twin after, with working pages shown on a private staging site each week, so your managers react to the real thing rather than a picture of it.
- 04
Launch and handover
Before go-live we redirect every old URL, test the hreflang pairs and phone speed, and walk your counsel through each consent step. Your editors publish their first Arabic and English posts with me watching, and we launch midweek.
Working together from Riyadh: the specifics
- Languages
- Arabic pages designed first, your native speakers approve every word, and we meet in English
- Shared hours
- 7 hours of a Riyadh office day, since Dhaka's clock is 3 hours ahead
- Working week
- yours and mine both run Sunday to Thursday; Friday and Saturday are rest days in each country
- Platforms
- Webflow, Framer or Next.js with a headless CMS, picked for the people who will edit the site
- Ways to talk
- video calls booked in Riyadh time, a Slack channel for the project, and notes left on the staging site and in Figma
Industries in Riyadh that live on their websites
Each tile pairs a sector the city is building with what its website has to carry. The screens come from our own projects in that field, never from a Saudi client.
Real estate and property
REGA's new marketing and advertising regulation, reported in May 2026, requires property ads to show the licence number, a working contact method and the price. Listing templates need those fields built in, in Arabic and English.
Contractors and giga project suppliers
Riyadh won the vote for Expo 2030 on 28 November 2023, and the Expo runs from October 2030 to March 2031. Suppliers chasing that work need capability pages, project references and prequalification files in both languages.
Industrial and B2B suppliers
The mandatory list of national products for government buying held 1,444 items across 16 sectors in 2025. Manufacturers need Arabic and English product pages, downloadable datasheets and Saudi-made lines that procurement teams can spot quickly.
Banks, fintechs and finance firms
SAMA's licence disclosure instructions ask regulated financial institutions to show their licensor, licence number, commercial register number and national address on their websites. That belongs in a designed footer, not a pasted line of small print.
Healthcare and wellbeing
The PDPL counts health data as sensitive, and consumer adverts for medicines and medical devices need SFDA approval before they run. Clinic and health product sites need careful booking forms and Arabic pages reviewers can sign off.
Law firms and professional services
The Ministry of Justice had licensed 15 international law firms by October 2023, with 15 more under review. Firms competing for Riyadh clients need Arabic and English practice pages, lawyer biographies and enquiry forms that keep a matter confidential.
Working with my team on your Riyadh website
Dhaka is where we sit; your calendar, your regulators and your Arabic readers set the pace.
You talk to me and the makers
Your marketing lead talks straight to me and to the designers and developers building the site. Nobody passes messages along, and a question about the Arabic copy goes to the person laying out that page.
Your week, three hours apart
The Kingdom has rested on Friday and Saturday since a 2013 royal order, and so does Bangladesh. Dhaka sits three hours ahead, giving us 7 hours of your working day, and every call is booked in Riyadh time.
Every decision on paper for your managers
Figma holds every Arabic and English page, a decision log says why things changed, Slack gets an update every 48 hours, and a weekly call walks your managers through the staging site.
Your market's rules, already mapped
PDPL consent, SDAIA's privacy policy guideline, SAMA and REGA disclosure rules, the DGA Platforms Code, Hijri dates and Arabic search terms are on my list before the first wireframe is drawn.
Your Riyadh website: my team, an in-house hire or a freelancer
No option is wrong in itself. The rows below show where each one is strong for an Arabic and English company site in the Kingdom.
| What you get | With me | In-house hire | Freelancer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic templates designed first, English twin second | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| Work begins within days, with no hiring process | Yes | No | Yes |
| Design, CMS build and bilingual search from one senior team | Yes | Sometimes | No |
| PDPL consent and licence disclosures written into the scope | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| Arabic and English editors trained before launch | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| The whole site priced once, before design starts | Yes | No | Sometimes |
| Present at your Riyadh premises five days a week | No | Yes | Sometimes |
Who I help in Riyadh
The Riyadh organisations whose websites I take on usually look like one of these four.
Suppliers and contractors
You sell to developers, contractors or government buyers, and their procurement teams often read your site before any call. I design capability pages, references and downloadable files in Arabic and English that make prequalification easier.
Established firms with a dated site
Your firm is well known offline, yet its site was built for English readers and the Arabic section is thin. I rebuild it Arabic-first, protect the pages Google already trusts and leave your staff a CMS they will open.
Regulated companies
Banks, fintechs, clinics and property brokers must show licences and treat personal data with care. I design disclosure footers, consent steps and review rounds your compliance team can sign off without rewriting the page.
International firms opening in Riyadh
Your global site does not yet speak to Saudi buyers. I add an Arabic-first Saudi version with your Saudi registration details, a Saudi phone and WhatsApp contact, and hreflang so it never competes with your global pages.
Beyond the website: other work for Riyadh teams
A company website often leads to an app or a portal. See my mobile app design for Riyadh, or my team's web app development in Riyadh for logins and dashboards.
What clients say about my website work
Working with Jubayer and the team has been a blast. Their creativity has honestly taken our platform to new heights. Incredibly professional and so proud to work with, we’re over the moon with their results, and we can’t wait to team up with them again.
I highly recommend Jubayer for any design project. He quickly grasps complex concepts, excels in standard design practices, and responds promptly.
Working with Jubayer on our website was fantastic from start to finish. He took the time to understand our vision and provided valuable insights.
Website designer in Riyadh: questions Saudi companies ask first
Short, complete answers for the marketing, IT and compliance people who will sign off the site.
Are you a web design company in Riyadh or a freelancer?
Honestly, a bit of both. Your contact is one senior designer, me, from the first call to launch day, and the site is designed and built by the team of designers and developers I lead. We work remotely from Dhaka; we are not a company registered in Saudi Arabia and keep no Riyadh office. You get one point of contact with a full team's capacity, inside your Sunday to Thursday week.
How much does a website designer in Riyadh cost?
There is no standard figure; the quote follows the scope. The number of templates, whether Arabic and English are both designed and written, the CMS, forms and links to your CRM or WhatsApp, and the number of approval rounds move it most. After a free 30 minute call you receive a written scope listing every page and form, and one fixed quote for the entire site. Nothing is billed by the hour and no retainer follows.
Should our Saudi website open in Arabic or in English?
For most Saudi audiences, Arabic. I give each language its own address, such as /ar and /en, and link every page to its twin with hreflang, because Google asks each version to list itself and all the others. An x-default page catches visitors whose browser language matches neither, and the language switch keeps people on the same page instead of sending them home.
Do we need a cookie banner under the Saudi PDPL?
There is no Saudi law written only about cookies, but the PDPL still covers what your tags collect. Your privacy policy must be available before data is collected, and SDAIA's privacy policy guideline lists cookie data among the things to disclose. I design a short notice with real choices for analytics and advertising tags, and your lawyer confirms the wording.
What should a company website in Saudi Arabia show to earn trust?
Who you are, in Arabic and in plain sight: your commercial registration number, national address, a Saudi phone number and any licence your sector needs. WhatsApp matters too; CST's latest report puts its use at 92.7% of Saudi internet users. I design the footer, contact page and click to chat so a buyer can check you and reach you from a phone in seconds.
Does our website have to follow the DGA Platforms Code?
Only if it is, or serves, a government platform. The Digital Government Authority launched the Platforms Code in November 2024 as an open-source design system to unify government digital services. A private company site sits outside that scope, but if you are building pages for a ministry or a government-linked body, ask which parts it expects, and I design to those components.
How fast should our website load on Saudi phones?
Fast enough that the network is never the excuse. CST's 2025 report put the Kingdom's median mobile download speed at 216 Mbps, so a slow page is usually heavy images, fonts or scripts. I aim for the main content to appear within 2.5 seconds on a mid-range phone, the level web.dev counts as a good Largest Contentful Paint.
Can you redesign our English-only site for Saudi Arabia?
Yes. The English pages keep their search history: each old URL is redirected to its new home, and titles that already bring traffic stay. Then every important page gains an Arabic twin with its own Arabic title and description, linked by hreflang. Done this way, the redesign adds Saudi readers in Arabic instead of trading away the English visitors you already have.