Dubai · Web Design & Development

Websites designed and built in Dubai — engineered to load fast and last.

Q: How much does a website cost in Dubai?

A small business site starts around AED 16,000. The main commercial site for an established business is typically AED 48,000 to AED 95,000, and platforms with applications or portals go above that. What moves a project between those tiers is scope and integrations, not page count alone — the detail is on our pricing page.

Q: How long does it take?

A typical marketing site is six weeks from kick-off, assuming content is ready. Larger builds run nine to sixteen weeks. Content is the most common cause of delay, so we start gathering it in week one rather than waiting until the build is done.

Q: Do I own the website?

Yes — entirely. The code, domain, hosting, analytics and Figma files are registered in your accounts from the start, not ours. If you decide to move to another agency, there is nothing to negotiate and nothing to buy back.

Q: WordPress or a custom build?

WordPress when a content team needs to publish frequently and the requirements are conventional. Custom when the requirements are not — a portal, a calculator, an unusual data model, or an integration a plugin cannot handle. We recommend against custom when WordPress genuinely fits; it is cheaper for you and easier to hire for.

Q: Can you build the site in Arabic?

Yes. Full right-to-left layout with a typeface selected for Arabic rather than a system fallback. It is designed in from the architecture phase — retrofitting RTL onto a finished English site costs considerably more than building both from the start.

Q: Will you work with our existing website?

Often, yes. We audit it first and tell you honestly whether it is worth maintaining or whether you would spend less rebuilding. Some inherited sites carry so much plugin and theme debt that repair costs more than replacement.

Q: What happens after launch?

Either you take it and run it — you have the documentation and the accounts — or you move onto a care plan for updates, backups, monitoring and a block of retained hours. Neither locks you in; the care plan cancels with thirty days' notice.

Q: Do you do SEO?

We build sites so search engines can crawl and understand them: structure, speed, schema and clean URLs. Ongoing SEO campaigns are handled by Zeno, our sister agency, and you are under no obligation to use them.

Q: Where is your team based?

Dubai. The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it, and you can meet them. Nothing is quietly subcontracted to a team you will never speak to.

Q: What if we need changes after the project ends?

Small changes are covered by a care plan. Anything larger is quoted as a follow-on project with its own scope and price. We do not bill open-ended hourly work against a finished project without agreeing it first.

We build websites the way software gets built: measured, maintainable, and owned by you. No page-builder debt, no agency lock-in, no site that quietly rots by year two.

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Fixed scope, fixed price
You own the code
Dubai-based team

Drag the seam — same page, both sides.

Websites shipped: 140+Placeholder
Average Lighthouse score: 98Placeholder
Hosting uptime: 99.9%Placeholder
Median time to launch: 6 weeksPlaceholder

Measured across projects delivered in the last 12 months.

The problem

Most Dubai businesses are on their third website in five years.

Not because they changed their mind. Because of four failures that repeat almost without variation.

The template ceiling
It launched quickly and looked fine. Then you needed one thing the theme could not do, and the quote to add it exceeded the cost of the original build.
It got slow
Twelve plugins, four tracking scripts and an unoptimised hero image. It scores 34 on mobile, and most of your traffic in the UAE is mobile.
The agency vanished
Nobody has the logins. The developer is uncontactable. The theme licence lapsed and the contact form has been silently failing for months.
Nothing is joined up
Enquiries arrive by email and get retyped into a spreadsheet. The CRM, the payment gateway and the site each hold a different version of the truth.

What we do

Two disciplines, one team, and the care plan that keeps it alive.

Design and development only. No branding, no SEO, no social — a specialist reads as more credible than a generalist to anyone commissioning a build.

Web Design

Interface design that earns its keep — structured in Figma, handed over as a system your team can extend without us.

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Web Development

The build itself: custom code, WordPress, e-commerce and web applications, written to be read by whoever maintains it next.

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Website Care

What happens after launch — updates, monitoring, speed and hosting, so the site is as fast in year three as on day one.

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See how we work

Selected work

Built, launched, and still fast.

Three projects, and the number that mattered on each.

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How to work with us

Three ways in.

Most projects start fixed-scope. The others exist because not every problem has a defined edge.

Most projects
Fixed-scope project
You know what you need built.
A defined brief, a fixed price and a fixed date. Scope is agreed before anything starts, and changes are quoted separately rather than absorbed silently.
- Fixed price
- Milestone billing
- 6–12 weeks typical
Dedicated squad
The work is ongoing and the scope moves.
A designer and one or two engineers reserved for you monthly, working from your backlog. Suited to platforms and products rather than one-off sites.
- Monthly retainer
- Your backlog
- Minimum 3 months
Care plan
The site exists and needs keeping.
Updates, backups, monitoring and a block of retained hours each month — on sites we built, and on inherited ones once we have audited them.
- Monthly
- Named engineer
- Cancel with 30 days

Process

Six phases, and you see the work at the end of each.

No month-long silences followed by a reveal. Every phase ends with something you can open and react to.

01Discover
02Architect
03Design
04Build
05Launch
06Evolve

Discover

Requirements, constraints, competitors and the systems you already run.

OutputScope document

Architect

Sitemap, URL structure, data model and the technical approach, agreed before design.

OutputArchitecture + sitemap

Design

Wireframes, then interface design in Figma, then a clickable prototype.

OutputFigma system

Build

Front-end and back-end, in weekly increments on a staging URL you can visit.

OutputStaging site

Launch

Redirects, analytics, search console, performance budget and a go-live checklist.

OutputLive site + handover

Evolve

Measured changes after launch, on a care plan or as a follow-on project.

OutputMonthly reporting

The process in detail

Timeline

What six weeks actually looks like.

A typical fixed-scope marketing site. Larger platforms extend the build and launch phases, not the discovery ones.

Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6

Discover

Architect

Design

Build

Content & QA

Launch

Week 1Week 6

DiscoverWeek 1
ArchitectWeek 1 to Week 2
DesignWeek 2 to Week 3
BuildWeek 3 to Week 5
Content & QAWeek 5 to Week 6
LaunchWeek 6

Content is the usual cause of slippage. We start it in week one, not week five.

Stack

Boring technology, chosen so the next developer recognises it.

Nothing here is exotic. That is the point: an unusual stack is a lock-in mechanism dressed up as innovation.

Front-end: Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSAstro
CMS & commerce: WordPressShopifySanityPayloadWooCommerce
Back-end & data: Node.jsPostgreSQLLaravelRedisPrisma
Infrastructure: VercelAWSCloudflareGitHub ActionsSentry

Performance

Speed is a feature, and we treat it like one.

Every build ships against a performance budget. If a change would break it, the change gets reworked — not the budget.

98

Performance

100

Accessibility

100

Best practices

100

SEO

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LCPLoading
Largest Contentful Paint
< 1.8s
INPResponsiveness
Interaction to Next Paint
< 150ms
CLSVisual stability
Cumulative Layout Shift
< 0.05

Speed is not vanity. Slower pages lose enquiries, and mobile is where most UAE traffic arrives — often on a network that is nothing like your office wifi.

Built for this market

A website for the UAE is not an English website with a translation bolted on.

Three things that are specific here, and that a non-local build almost always gets wrong.

English · LTR

العربية · RTL

Right-to-left is a layout mirror, not a font swap. Navigation, icons, form fields, progress and charts all flip — and the type needs a face designed for Arabic, not a fallback.

Arabic and RTL
Proper bidirectional layout with a typeface chosen for Arabic, not a system fallback. Built in from the architecture phase, because retrofitting it costs more than doing it.
UAE payments
Network International, Telr, PayTabs, Tabby and Tamara — plus Apple Pay, which carries a meaningful share of UAE mobile checkouts.
PDPL compliance
Consent, data residency and retention handled in line with the UAE Personal Data Protection Law, rather than a copied European cookie banner.

Industries

Sectors we have shipped in.

Sector experience shows up in the details — the integrations, the compliance and the things buyers in that market expect to see.

Real estate
Restaurants & F&B
Clinics & healthcare
Construction
Hospitality
Law firms
Travel
Logistics
Education

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Why Zenoweb

The things that matter after the invoice is paid.

Most of these are only visible in year two, which is precisely why they are worth asking about in week one.

You own everything
Code, domain, hosting, analytics and design files, in your accounts, from day one. Leaving us requires no negotiation and no export fee.
Senior engineers in Dubai
The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it. Nothing is quietly passed to an offshore team you never speak to.
Fixed scope, fixed price
A written scope before anything starts. Changes are quoted, not absorbed and invoiced as a surprise at the end.
A performance budget
Agreed before the build and enforced through it, so speed is not something we try to retrofit in the final week.
Accessible by default
Contrast, keyboard navigation and semantics are part of the build, not a remediation project after a complaint.
Documented and handed over
A repository, a README and a walkthrough. Any competent developer can pick it up without an archaeology exercise.

Clients

What they said afterwards.

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Pricing

Published, because everybody else hides it.

Indicative ranges for a typical engagement. The detailed breakdown, and what moves a project between tiers, is on the pricing page.

Launch
A credible presence, built properly.
from
AED 16,000
5–8 pages · 4 weeks
- Custom design, no bought theme
- Up to 8 pages
- Mobile-first build
- Basic schema + analytics
- Editor training
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Growth
Most chosen
The main commercial site for the business.
from
AED 48,000
15–30 pages · 6–9 weeks
- Everything in Launch
- Custom CMS structure
- Arabic / RTL
- CRM or payment integration
- Performance budget enforced
- Named engineer
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Platform
A product, portal or large store.
from
AED 95,000
Scoped per project
- Everything in Growth
- Web application or portal
- Multi-language, multi-branch
- API and ERP integration
- Staging + CI pipeline
- SLA-backed response
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Prices exclude 5% VAT. Payment in milestones — nothing is due in a single lump at signature.

What changes the price

Insights

Written for the person doing the buying.

Every post here answers a question a business owner actually asks before commissioning a build.

Buying
How to choose a web development company in Dubai
The questions that separate a studio that will still be answering the phone in two years from one that will not.
9 min
E-commerce
WordPress vs Shopify for UAE e-commerce
Local payment support, Arabic handling and total cost over three years — compared on the criteria that actually decide it.
12 min
Design
Arabic website design: an RTL guide
What mirrors, what does not, and the typography decisions that make an Arabic site read as native rather than translated.
11 min

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Questions

Asked before almost every project.