A genuinely bilingual site for a Dubai or Abu Dhabi business is a different build to an English site with a translated version bolted on — right-to-left layout, Gulf-appropriate trust signals, and WhatsApp as a primary contact channel, built in from the structure up, not patched on afterward.
Right-to-left (RTL) support has to be in the component layer from day one — navigation, icons, form fields, and spacing all flip direction correctly, not just the body text. Retrofitting RTL onto an English-first site after the fact almost always shows.
Typography matters more than it first appears: a font tuned for Latin characters often renders Arabic script cramped or uneven, so Arabic gets its own font choice and line-height tuning rather than reusing the English site's type scale.
Trust signals differ from a Western-market site too — clear company information, WhatsApp as a primary contact route (heavily used across the UAE), and professionally written Arabic copy (not machine-translated English) matter more here than they would on a US or UK site.
Component-level right-to-left support, not a CSS override pass at the end.
Professionally written Arabic content, not a machine translation of the English site.
The primary contact channel across the region, wired in as a first-class feature.
Storefront and corporate-site builds for international clients including Dubai and the UK.
Full-stack products, built to hold up in production.
Storefronts built to convert, not just launch.
Visuals that make a storefront look premium.
Alifah Enterprise — a corporate site built for a Dubais-based electronics supplier — reflects the same international, trust-signal-first approach we bring to a UAE build.
“Clean code, clear estimates, no scope creep. Exactly what a small team needs from an outside dev shop.”
We work with professionally written Arabic copy rather than machine translation — you can provide existing Arabic content, or we can help source and structure it as part of the build.
A real flip — navigation, icons, forms, and spacing all mirror correctly, because it's built into the component layer, not added as a CSS patch once the English site is done.
Yes — for e-commerce builds we integrate the payment and shipping providers relevant to the UAE market as part of scoping during discovery.