Kingdom · Saudi Arabia
Website redesign and modernisation in Riyadh
The most common way a redesign goes wrong is not the design. It is that the new site ships with new URLs, no redirect map, and traffic that took four years to build disappears in a fortnight. Preventing that is a checklist, not a talent, and it is included here rather than sold as an extra. For Riyadh businesses, quoted in SAR from $120, typically live in 5 days.
What website redesign and modernisation includes for a Riyadh business
Fixed scope, agreed in writing before development starts. From $120, typically live in 5 days.
- Full crawl of the existing site before anything changes, so nothing is lost by accident
- A URL-by-URL redirect map, in a single hop, tested before launch and again after
- Modernised responsive design built mobile-first, on the content you already rank for
- Content migration with headings, internal links and metadata preserved deliberately rather than by luck
- Core Web Vitals brought inside the thresholds during the rebuild — images, fonts and render path
- Structured data rebuilt to match the new page types
- Post-launch indexation check: Search Console coverage, sitemap resubmitted, 404s monitored
- 30 days of snag fixes after go-live
The terms for a Saudi client
| Starting price | From $120, quoted and invoiced in SAR |
|---|---|
| Typical timeline | 5 days once content is supplied |
| Tax position | VAT at 15%, reverse-charged on imported services |
| Data protection | the Personal Data Protection Law enforced by SDAIA — resolved by the PDPL restricts transfers abroad, so the DPA records the safeguards and the purpose limitation in writing |
| Payment rails available | Stripe, HyperPay, Moyasar, and mada for domestic cards |
| My day in Riyadh time | 07:00–16:00 — about 7 hours of overlap |
Why this matters for Saudi Arabia specifically
mada is not optional. A Saudi checkout that only accepts Visa and Mastercard loses a large share of domestic buyers at the payment step, and that single integration decision moves conversion more than anything on the product page.
How a Riyadh project is paid for, and why it is staged
Payment is split across milestones tied to things you can actually look at — a staging URL, a working checkout, a completed migration — rather than to dates on a calendar. You pay for a milestone after reviewing it, in SAR, which means at no point are you more than one stage out of pocket on work you have not seen.
This exists because the alternative puts all the risk on whichever side pays first, and across a border that asymmetry is the thing that makes people nervous. Staging it does not eliminate the risk; it caps it at one milestone, which is small enough to walk away from. That is a more honest offer than a guarantee I could not enforce from here anyway.
Property, lettings and estate agencies in Riyadh
Property sites live or die on search and filtering. A listing grid that cannot be filtered by the three things buyers actually care about — price, bedrooms, area — sends people to the portals, and once they are on a portal you are competing on fee with every other agency in Riyadh.
The technical half is feed handling: listings usually arrive from a CRM in a format designed two decades ago, and keeping the site, the portals and the window cards in agreement is where the real work sits. It is worth doing properly, because a property still showing as available after it is let generates the angriest phone calls in the business.
Analytics that has never once been looked at
Most sites carry a tracking tag and no measurement. Nobody defined what counts as a conversion, so the dashboard reports sessions and bounce rate — numbers that move up and down and change no decision anybody makes.
Useful measurement is narrow: form submissions, phone taps, WhatsApp clicks, and which pages preceded them. Four numbers checked monthly beat forty never opened, and knowing which Riyadh search terms actually produce enquiries is what turns the site from a cost into something you can steer.
What I am not claiming about Riyadh
- I have no office, postal address or phone number in Riyadh
- I cannot meet you in person, and if that is a requirement you should hire locally
- I am not claiming existing clients in Riyadh specifically — my live work is listed on the work page and you can check it
- Nothing on this page is a guarantee of search rankings, which no developer can honestly offer
Website redesign and modernisation in Riyadh — common questions
- How long does a Riyadh project actually take?
- Three days for a business site, seven for a store, ten for a custom application. That holds because the process is fixed rather than improvised and because your content exists on day one. What stretches a build is almost never the code — it is waiting for copy, logos and photographs, so those are requested before the clock starts.
- What hours will you be available to us in Riyadh?
- My working day lands at 07:00–16:00 in your time, which is roughly 7 hours inside a normal Riyadh working day. In practice you can raise something in the morning and have it answered the same morning, and a scheduled call is easy to place at a civilised hour for both of us.
- Can you fix my existing site rather than rebuild it?
- Often, yes, and it is usually the cheaper answer. Speed problems, a broken mobile layout, a form that silently fails or missing structured data are all fixable on the site you already have. I will tell you which of the two you need after looking, and a rebuild only gets recommended when the fix would cost more than starting again.
- Do you provide ongoing maintenance after launch?
- Thirty days of snag fixes are included after launch at no extra cost — anything that does not work as specified gets fixed. Beyond that there are monthly plans for updates, backups, monitoring and small changes. They are optional and cancellable; a site handed over properly does not require a retainer to keep running.
- Will the site actually rank in Riyadh search results?
- The build handles what is technically controllable: crawlable HTML, correct headings, structured data, fast pages, a clean sitemap and Search Console set up on day one. Ranking also depends on your competitors, your domain's age and the links pointing at you, which no developer controls. Anyone guaranteeing a position is guessing or lying.
- What happens if I am not happy with the result?
- Work is delivered in milestones against a written scope, and you review each one on a staging URL before it is paid for. If the delivered milestone does not match the scope, it gets corrected before anything moves forward. That structure exists so disagreement is resolved at the stage it happens rather than at the end when it is expensive.
- Do you build on WordPress or something custom?
- Whichever the project justifies. WordPress when you need to edit content constantly and want a familiar admin. A static build when speed and security matter more than a plugin ecosystem. Custom PHP and MySQL when the logic is genuinely yours. The choice is explained in the quote with its trade-offs, not presented as a foregone conclusion.
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The full service detail — process, deliverables, what is excluded and the FAQ — is on the main website redesign and modernisation page. Everything I build for Riyadh is on the Riyadh page, and every town in Saudi Arabia is on the Saudi Arabia coverage page.
Website redesign and modernisation in Riyadh — get a fixed quote
Send the brief and you get a reply within one business day, priced in SAR from $120. If website redesign and modernisation is not what your project actually needs, I will say so.
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