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Bilingual Arabic–English website design in Saudi Arabia

One website in two languages: Arabic readers get it right to left, international partners left to right, and both find the full version. Search engines know which version to show to whom.

  • Licensed Gulf company
  • Written contract before payment
الصفحة الرئيسية لموقع مجموعة العماري بجدة، عربي وإنجليزي، من تصميم نقلة
Timing3–4 weeksPriceWritten quote

From our workAlammari Group (English version)

Your English version reads like a translation, and partners notice

You work with foreign suppliers, welcome guests or patients who don't read Arabic, or pitch to international companies. Then you open your English pages: machine-translated sentences, missing pages, and a language button that drops visitors on the home page instead of the page they were on. In Google, English searchers see an Arabic title, or both versions look like duplicate pages. A bilingual website isn't a translation bolted on at the end. It's a build planned that way from the start.

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What the work covers

  • Everything in the company website, in Arabic and English
  • One design that works right-to-left and left-to-right without breaking
  • Proper language switching: the language button takes visitors to the same page in the other language
  • hreflang plus a title and description for every page in each language
  • English copy edited and written for its reader, not machine-translated
  • Arabic and English typefaces matched in weight and size
  • Contact forms in both languages that reach WhatsApp
  • A dashboard to update both languages yourself
  • Domain and hosting in your name

Steps and timing

Timing3–4 weeks

  1. Free discovery call

    We work out who reads each version: who your Arabic audience is, who your English audience is, and what each one is looking for.

  2. Written proposal, then a contract before any payment

    Scope, pages and timeline in writing, then an official PDF contract covering ownership. Nothing is paid before it is signed.

  3. Content in both languages

    We agree the Arabic copy first, then write and edit the English for its reader, and share both with you side by side.

  4. Build and review

    We build the site on a preview link in both directions, and you review every page in both languages on phone and desktop.

  5. Launch, hand-over and training

    We launch, hand over the accounts in your name, and train you to update both languages from the dashboard.

What you receive

  • A live website in Arabic and English on your domain
  • Domain and hosting in your name
  • A dashboard with an admin account in your name
  • The approved copy in both languages
  • A user guide and a training session
  • Contract and invoice in your business name

Who it's for

  • Companies dealing with foreign partners, suppliers or clients
  • Hotels and serviced apartments hosting guests from outside the Kingdom
  • Hospitals and medical centres serving residents who don't read Arabic
  • Organisations bidding for tenders or partnerships that expect English material

When it isn't the right fit

Businesses whose audience is entirely Arabic-speaking: an Arabic company website is enough and launches sooner

Anyone wanting a quick machine translation of an existing site without rebuilding it

Before you decide

Bilingual doesn't mean two websites

A common mistake is building the site in Arabic, then copying and translating it, so you end up with two websites that drift apart with every edit. A proper bilingual site is one body of content with two versions: the same pages, images and structure, with each Arabic page linked to its English counterpart. That keeps the language button sending people to the right place, and keeps both versions in step when you update one.

Machine translation shows in the first line

English readers, especially partners and investors, spot literal translation immediately: Arabic sentence structure in English words, terms nobody in your industry uses. Good English copy says the same thing the way a native writer would, and may be shorter or longer than the Arabic. Ask for the English to be edited, not carried over word for word.

What Google needs to understand both versions

Each version needs its own URL, its own title and description in its language, and an hreflang tag linking each page to its counterpart. Without them, Google may show an Arabic title to an English searcher, or treat the two versions as duplicate content. Visitors never see these details, but they decide whether searchers find you in their language.

Two directions, one design

Arabic reads right to left and English left to right, so menus, arrows and alignment flip. A design planned for both directions from the start stays balanced either way. The Arabic and English typefaces also need to be close in weight, so neither version looks heavier or smaller than the other.

Before you order: who reads the English?

Pin down your English audience first. A partner wanting your company profile and licences? A guest looking for rates and location? A patient checking which doctors speak which languages? The answer decides what the English version puts first; its order can differ from the Arabic without the content differing.

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Send us your request on WhatsApp and we'll reply with a written quote — scope, timing and price — before any payment.

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الصفحة الرئيسية لموقع مجموعة العماري بجدة، عربي وإنجليزي، من تصميم نقلة
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Frequently asked questions

Do you write the English copy, or do I?

We agree the Arabic copy with you, then write and edit the English for its reader, with no machine translation. If you already have English copy, we review it and fit it to the site.

What is hreflang and why does it matter?

It's a tag that tells Google the Arabic and English pages are two versions of the same content, so each searcher sees the version in their language and the two pages aren't treated as duplicates.

Does the English version get its own URLs?

Yes. Each version has its own addresses, such as /en/, so you can share an English page directly with a partner and each version appears in search in its own language.

Can I edit the text myself after hand-over?

Yes. You get a dashboard for editing text and images in both languages, plus a user guide.

Can you add English to my current website?

It depends on how your site was built. We look at it during the discovery call; often, rebuilding bilingual from the start is cleaner than patching a site designed for one language.

Do you have a bilingual site in Saudi Arabia I can look at?

Yes: the Alammari Group website in Jeddah, alammarigroup.co, in Arabic and English. Open it and try the language switch yourself.