Multilingual Website Design
Arabic is not English with the layout flipped. We design both from scratch.
We design Arabic and English as two independent systems — separate typography, separate copywriting, separate quality bar — rather than mirroring one language's layout into the other. It's the same standard we apply to our own site.
Start a Project →Independent RTL Layouts
Arabic pages designed as their own system, not a flipped English template.
Native Arabic Copywriting
Written directly in Arabic by an Arabic writer, never machine-translated.
Typography Built for Arabic
Type sizing and line-height set for how Arabic letterforms actually read.
Reciprocal SEO (hreflang)
Correct hreflang and canonical structure so neither language cannibalises the other.
Why a flipped stylesheet isn't multilingual design
The easy way to 'add Arabic' is to mirror the existing English layout and swap the text direction — and it's also the way that produces a site that reads as foreign to Arabic visitors. Arabic typefaces carry more vertical detail than Latin ones at the same pixel size, so we set Arabic body text larger (around 18px) with taller line-height (1.85–1.9) than the English equivalent, using dedicated Arabic type stacks rather than a single font asked to render two scripts.
Arabic also has no capital letters, so a heading hierarchy built on uppercase styling simply disappears in translation — we rebuild hierarchy using weight and size instead. And not everything mirrors: layout, lists and breadcrumbs flip direction, but phone numbers, email addresses and brand marks stay left-to-right, wrapped so they render correctly inside a right-to-left paragraph rather than reversing digit order.
Getting bilingual SEO right, not just bilingual text
Two languages on one domain only works for search if the technical structure is right: reciprocal hreflang tags so Google understands the English and Arabic pages as translations of each other rather than duplicate or competing content, separate but connected sitemaps, and canonical tags that point each language at itself, not at the other.
This matters more every quarter, not less — AI assistants increasingly answer Arabic queries directly, and a site that only exists in English is invisible to that entire side of the conversation. We built this exact structure for our own site (see the language toggle in the header) before we started offering it as a service.
What's Included
- Independent Arabic content, written not translated
- Dedicated Arabic typography system (Tajawal / IBM Plex Sans Arabic)
- RTL layout rules for navigation, lists and forms
- Mixed-direction element handling (phone, email)
- Reciprocal hreflang and canonical implementation
- Bilingual QA on real devices
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you translate our existing content or write it fresh?+
We write Arabic content fresh, by an Arabic copywriter — direct translation reads noticeably foreign to native readers and we don't recommend it.
What does adding true bilingual design cost compared to English only?+
Typically twenty to thirty-five percent more than a single-language build, since Arabic is designed and written as its own system rather than derived from the English pages.
Do you support languages other than Arabic?+
Yes, on request — Arabic is our core expertise given the Saudi market, but we scope other languages per project.
How much longer does bilingual add to the timeline?+
Typically two to four additional weeks, depending on content volume, since Arabic copywriting runs in parallel with the English build rather than after it.
Does this actually help SEO?+
Yes — correct hreflang implementation lets each language rank on its own terms instead of the two versions competing with each other in search results.
Can you add Arabic to a site we already have in English?+
Yes — we add it under its own path (for example /ar/) without changing any of your existing English URLs, so nothing you currently rank for is put at risk.