أهلاً وسهلاًAhlan wa sahlan, Arabic for welcome
Sharjah company websites that read as naturally in Arabic as in English
My name is Maniruzzaman Jubayer, and I am a design engineer serving Sharjah businesses remotely from Dhaka, two time zones east of the emirate. Instead of passing your project from a designer to a developer, I draw the Arabic and English pages and then write the code for them, so right to left layouts, form consent and mobile speed are decided at the sketch stage, not repaired once the site is live. Whether you hold an SEDD licence on the mainland or sit in SRTI Park, SAIF Zone or Shams, your staff get one CMS for both languages, and my working day overlaps 8 hours of yours.
Designed and built by Maniruzzaman Jubayer
Free 30 min intro call · Written scope, one fixed quote · Arabic and English built together
8 hours of your day shared
Companies whose sites and products carry my design work
- Raised by my clients
- $30M+
- Monthly visits on client platforms
- 10M+
- Client satisfaction in project reviews
- 90%
- Companies helped
- 50+
- Years designing and building websites
- 6+
- Behance features
- 20+
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Web design in Sharjah: four problems I see often, and what I do about them
The Sharjah Digital Department reported 155 services from 62 government entities on its platform in August 2026, with more than 2.65 million transactions in the first half of the year. Residents who renew and pay online in Arabic or English bring that expectation to every company site they open. Here is what usually falls short when a Sharjah business sends me its current website.
English is designed and signed off first, and weeks later the Arabic text is dropped into the same frames. Titles wrap badly, icons face the wrong way and numbers jump around inside sentences. I design both directions from the first sketch, so the Arabic page has its own layout instead of a mirrored one.
Adding an approval number to a listing, new admission dates or a stand number for the book fair ought to take minutes, yet on many Sharjah sites it becomes a request to an outside developer. Your editors get a CMS shaped around the entries they really touch, Arabic beside English in every field, plus a session that shows them how.
A parent checking school admissions, a buyer in Riyadh looking for a factory's certificates and a tenant hoping to book a viewing all land on the same home page. I map what each of them needs and put it within a click or two of the first screen, in either language.
Property ads that need SRERD approval, consumer information that has to be in Arabic and consent under the PDPL are easy to miss until someone complains. I list the rules that apply to your business in the scope before design begins, so they shape the templates from day one.
Case studies that match what Sharjah firms ask for
AQARI is an Arabic-first property investment web app, laid out right to left with an English counterpart; beside it sit a law firm website, a real estate landing page and a fintech SaaS website. Property is also the field where Sharjah adds a rule of its own: written approval from the Sharjah Real Estate Registration Department before a unit is advertised for sale.
Product design · Fintech
AQARI
A Shariah-compliant web app where investors in Saudi Arabia own property shares, collect rent, trade units and track Zakat.
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Website design · Legal
JurisLex
A website for a Sydney-based firm specialising in real estate law.
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Landing page · Real estate
Homelo
A real estate landing page with its full page structure, style guide and responsive layouts.
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If your Arabic pages feel borrowed from English, they can be designed to stand on their own.
Marhaba, let's talkIncluded in every Sharjah site, from first template to launch
Each item below appears in the written scope, listed per page and per language, so the finished site can be ticked off against it before you sign off.
- 01
Arabic with its own layout, not a mirror
Every template is drawn right to left and left to right in parallel, with direction set on the html element as W3C guidance recommends, Arabic type sized for comfortable reading, and lines that mix Arabic, Latin and numerals checked before build.
- 02
Two-language URLs that search engines understand
Separate /ar/ and /en/ paths, one sitemap per language, and hreflang on each page that names the page itself, its twin and an x-default, linked in both directions so Google keeps the annotations.
- 03
Consent that follows the PDPL
Forms and cookie choices planned around Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021, where saying no takes no more effort than saying yes, with privacy pages in Arabic and English for your lawyer to approve.
- 04
Dirham figures that render cleanly
If your pages show amounts in dirhams, a font and fallback plan for the new UAE dirham sign, U+20C3 in Unicode 18.0, so amounts look right while devices, fonts and keyboards add support.
- 05
A CMS built around what you publish
Collections for the content you actually change, from listings and products to courses, titles or team members. Arabic and English fields sit side by side, preview in both directions and follow editor roles, with a written guide and a live training session.
- 06
Accessible, and quick on mobile data
WCAG 2.2 AA checks in both languages, a step above the 2.1 AA level in the national accessibility policy, and pages built to reach a Largest Contentful Paint of 2.5 seconds or less on a phone.
Your Sharjah website in four steps, from first call to launch
The four steps of my website design process, set to Gulf Standard Time and to the approvals a Sharjah site tends to need: Arabic wording, legal review and, for property or schools, the authority's own rules.
- 01
Free 30 minute intro call
A Google Meet call at a time that suits Sharjah. Walk me through your current site, the pages that bring enquiries and who approves Arabic and legal text, and I will tell you plainly whether a rebuild is needed or a smaller fix will do.
- 02
Scope in writing, quoted once
A single document covering every Arabic and English template, the CMS, forms and consent, integrations, the rules tied to your sector and the number of review rounds, with one fixed quote for the full site and no retainer afterwards.
- 03
Build in weekly rounds, reviewed live
Each week a pair of Arabic and English templates moves from Figma to staging, and reviewers pin their comments on working pages instead of images.
- 04
Launch, redirects and handover
Before the switch I map every old address to its new one and test hreflang and Core Web Vitals; analytics wait for consent, and a final session leaves your editors in charge of both languages.
Sharjah and Dhaka: shared hours, different weekends, one toolset
- Clock
- Gulf Standard Time is UTC+4 and Bangladesh runs on UTC+6, a two hour gap that keeps 8 hours of a Sharjah office day in common
- Week
- the Government of Sharjah works Monday to Thursday and rests Friday to Sunday; my weekend is Friday and Saturday, so Monday to Thursday is shared in full and I am also at my desk on Sunday
- Language
- calls happen in English; the site is written in Arabic and English, and an Arabic reader you nominate signs off every page
- Platforms
- Next.js on a headless CMS, or Webflow or Framer when your editors prefer a visual tool
- Channels
- Google Meet for calls, a shared Slack channel for day to day questions and comments pinned straight onto staging pages
Working together across the Gulf time gap
From Dhaka my hours cover most of a Sharjah working day, and nothing agreed is left only in a call.
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Your day My day Shared
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Design and code from one desk
I sketch the templates and write the code, so a detail agreed in design survives into the live site. Your Arabic reviewer is brought in whenever wording is on the table.
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Two hours ahead of Sharjah
When I start at 9 in Dhaka it is 7 am in Sharjah, and 8 hours of your day falls inside my hours. Friday is my day off and Sunday is a working day for me, so launches land Monday to Thursday unless other cover is written into the scope.
- 03
Every decision written down
Figma for design, a staging link for the build and a log of what was decided and why. A written update reaches Slack every 48 hours, and a weekly review call keeps marketing, legal and management on the same version.
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At home with the rules that touch your site
The federal PDPL, consumer protection in Arabic, SRERD approval for property ads, the national accessibility policy and right to left layout. For right to left detail, see my Arabic RTL design guide for the UAE.
Sharjah sectors, and what each one asks of its website
Six fields that shape Sharjah's economy, each with its own expectations online. Each picture is taken from a project of mine with a similar kind of site, and no picture shows a Sharjah client.
Real estate
Property deals in Sharjah reached a record AED 65.6 billion in 2025, up 64.3 percent, the Real Estate Registration Department reported. Ads need the department's written approval first, so the CMS should hold a listing back until its approval is recorded, with enquiries open in either language.
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Manufacturers and industrial suppliers
Sharjah's Economic Development Department issued or renewed 1,924 industrial licences in the first half of 2025, up 14 percent. Buyers comparing factories want product ranges, certificates and datasheets in Arabic and English, and a quote request that reaches sales the same day.
Private schools and universities
The Sharjah Private Education Authority counted more than 204,000 pupils and 135 licensed private schools for the 2026 term. Parents compare admissions, curricula and transport, often in two languages, so those pages have to be the easiest to find.
Tech ventures at SRTI Park
SRTI Park, founded in 2016, focuses on advanced manufacturing, healthcare, sustainability and the digitalisation of mobility and logistics. A deep tech company there needs a site that explains hard engineering to investors and industrial buyers on a single read.
Publishing, media and culture
Sharjah Publishing City counts more than 2,000 companies from 60 countries, Shams is set to host the emirate's unified government media hub, and the 45th Sharjah International Book Fair opens on 4 November 2026. Catalogues and event pages here are read in Arabic first.
Law firms and business services
SEDD issued or renewed 10,693 professional licences in the first half of 2025. The lawyers, accountants and consultants behind them need practice pages and profiles worded as carefully in Arabic as in English.
The Sharjah clients this page is written for
Sharjah organisations whose site has to hold up in two languages and in front of more than one authority.
That sounds like you?
Firms whose Arabic site lags behind
Half the Arabic pages are missing, or the ones that exist sound machine made, while English carries the whole site. I rebuild it so both languages share one content model and go live together.
Talk it through on a free callThat sounds like you?
Developers, brokers and schools with approvals
Property firms that need SRERD approval before advertising and private schools licensed by SPEA, where an approver reads every page before it is published. See real estate for the property side.
Talk it through on a free callThat sounds like you?
Suppliers to government
Technology firms and consultancies delivering online services to Sharjah or federal entities, which the national accessibility policy holds to WCAG 2.1 AA with a published statement. If sign-in runs on UAE PASS, my walkthrough of that flow helps.
Talk it through on a free callThat sounds like you?
Companies setting up in Sharjah
Groups opening at SRTI Park, SAIF Zone, Shams, Sharjah Publishing City or on the mainland, arriving from Asia, Europe or elsewhere in the Gulf, that need a local site in Arabic and English with the right consent, linked to the group's main site.
Talk it through on a free callA Sharjah website three ways: working with me, hiring in-house or a web design company
Each route can end in a good site. For a site in two languages, with a CMS and rules from more than one authority, these are the differences that matter.
| What you get | With me | In-house hire | Web design company |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic and English pages designed together from week one | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| The designer of the site is also the one who codes it | Yes | No | No |
| Consent written to the federal PDPL inside the scope | Yes | Sometimes | Sometimes |
| Starts in days, without recruitment or a visa | Yes | No | Yes |
| Redirects, search set-up and speed checked before launch | Yes | Sometimes | Yes |
| Meets you face to face in Sharjah | No | Yes | Sometimes |
| One fixed quote for the entire site, agreed before work starts | Yes | No | Sometimes |
What clients say about working with me
“The final product exemplified Muhammed’s profound comprehension of UI design principles, presenting a visually captivating experience that was both seamless and intuitive for users.”
Youssef RzikiClient, oil and gas trade“I highly recommend Jubayer for any design project. He quickly grasps complex concepts, excels in standard design practices, and responds promptly.”
Abhishek NaleProduct lead, StrellMore I design for Sharjah businesses
Once the website is live, clients often come back for a customer portal, an app or pages for a campaign.
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Web design in Sharjah: the questions that come up on intro calls
Straight answers to what Sharjah founders, marketing leads and legal advisers ask first.
- No. I am a design engineer working remotely from Dhaka, with no UAE-registered business and no Sharjah office. What you get instead is one accountable person from brief to launch: I design every page, write the code and publish both languages, so nothing gets lost between a designer and a separate developer.
- Scope, not hours: the number of unique templates, whether both Arabic and English are designed, who writes the copy, the CMS, links to tools such as a CRM or booking system, and any rules from your sector. After a free intro call you receive a written scope with one fixed quote for the whole site; there is no hourly billing and no retainer afterwards.
- For most Sharjah companies it is the federal PDPL, Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021, which bars processing personal data without consent outside some listed cases and has been in force since 2 January 2022. Its implementing regulations are still awaited, so I design forms and the cookie banner to make refusal as easy as acceptance, and your legal adviser confirms the law and the wording. For the detail, read my notes on designing PDPL consent.
- Selling to the public brings in Federal Law No. 15 of 2020 on Consumer Protection: under Article 26, consumer data, advertising and contracts are in Arabic, and other languages may sit next to it. Article 25 adds that e-commerce suppliers registered in the UAE give adequate information in Arabic. Sites aimed at other businesses have more room, but Arabic still counts with government buyers and with many Sharjah customers. Ask your lawyer which parts reach your business.
- If customers log in to anything on your site, it is worth it. The national digital identity already opens government services and, the UAE Government portal notes, private sector ones such as banking and telecoms. Access goes through the UAE PASS developer process, and I design the sign-in, consent and fallback screens around it; my UAE PASS sign-in guide follows the full flow.
- Unicode 18.0, dated 16 September 2026, gave the UAE dirham its own code point, U+20C3. Support in fonts and keyboards will lag behind, so I set up a tested fallback, such as a font that already contains the sign or an inline SVG, and keep the AED code for screen readers and older phones.
- Under Executive Council Resolution No. 34 of 2018, as Al Tamimi summarises it, owners, developers and licensed brokers need written approval from the Sharjah Real Estate Registration Department before advertising property for sale, social media included. I add the approval as a required CMS field, so a listing cannot go live without it. Real estate has the wider picture, and my post on Trakheesi covers the Dubai version.
- Yes, if the Arabic pages target the way people actually search in Arabic instead of a translated keyword list, live at their own URLs and carry hreflang both ways. Titles, structure and internal links are set up separately for each language, as my Arabic SEO guide for UAE websites describes.
- Yes. Each emirate has its own rules, so each has a page: website design in Dubai and website design in Abu Dhabi. A group trading across emirates can still run one bilingual site; only the legal pages and the property or licence details need to split.
أهلاً وسهلاً
Two languages, one launch date. Describe the Sharjah website you are planning.
Pick a time that suits your day in Sharjah. Thirty minutes on your product and your deadline, and you leave knowing whether I am the right fit.
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