Web Development Guides & Best Practices

A website in Dubai can cost anything from around AED 1,000 for a basic template site to more than AED 400,000 for a custom e-commerce build. Most custom sites built by a design agency fall between AED 15,000 and AED 60,000 for 3 to 10 pages. After launch, you also pay every year for the domain, hosting and upkeep.

Shopify works in the UAE, and Shopify Payments now pays out in dirhams to UAE LLCs and Sole Establishments. It suits most retail stores that want hosting, security and updates handled for them, with plans from $24 a month on yearly billing. WooCommerce has no monthly platform fee and gives you full ownership of the code and data, but you pay for hosting and upkeep yourself. A custom build only makes sense when your business model does not fit a standard catalogue, cart and checkout.

A multilingual UAE website is not just a translated copy. Build the Arabic and English versions as equals: right-to-left (RTL) layout for Arabic, proper Arabic fonts, a clean URL structure with reciprocal hreflang, and content that is transcreated rather than machine translated. Get the language and direction attributes right in code, keep both versions at parity, and structure answers so search engines and AI tools can quote you in either language.