Web design in Lebanon

A website built on the assumption of fast, uninterrupted internet behaves badly in Lebanon and everyone here knows it. Pages that were tested on office fibre turn into a spinner on 4G in Hamra, and a visitor who waits four seconds is usually a visitor you have lost.

We test on real phones on real connections, and the target is that a page becomes useful in about a second. That is not a nice-to-have in this market. It is the difference between a site that works and an expensive brochure nobody sees the end of.

Lebanese businesses rarely serve one language. A clinic in Achrafieh might need French and English; a shop in Tripoli might need Arabic first and English second; a law firm usually needs all three handled without any of them looking like an afterthought.

Right-to-left is built into the foundation rather than translated on at the end, so the whole layout mirrors properly and Arabic is set in typefaces made for Arabic. French sits alongside as a first-class option. Nothing ends up with the punctuation stranded on the wrong side of the sentence.

Our published prices are Lebanese market rates, quoted in US dollars, and they are on the site on purpose. A one-page site starts at $450; a full custom business website at $1,200; a custom online store at $2,500.

They are one-time project fees, not subscriptions. The only recurring costs are the ones you would pay anyway and own directly your domain, your hosting, and any service you choose to plug in. Half is paid to reserve the slot, half when you approve the finished site.

• Clinics and medical practices that need appointments, not just an address
• Law firms and consultancies where the site has to signal seriousness
• Restaurants, cafés and hospitality with menus that change
• Retail brands moving online without handing a platform a monthly cut
• Contractors and industrial firms whose customers check before they call
• New businesses that need one sharp page, live quickly

In a market where suppliers come and go, being locked out of your own website by someone who has stopped answering is a real risk, not a hypothetical one. So the domain is registered in your name, the hosting is your account, and the code is handed to you at the end.

If you ever want to move to another developer, everything they need goes with you and nothing has to be negotiated with us. That is the arrangement from the first day, in writing.