A website project is a series of deliverables you can inspect, not a mood board and an invoice. This is what web design in Jeddah should produce from kickoff to handover: a written scope, an Arabic-first content plan, phone-first design, a fast and safe build, local search basics, accounts in your own name, and support after launch.
A serious project starts with questions, not layouts. Expect a discovery session about your customers, your services, and how enquiries reach you today. The output is a written scope you can read in one sitting.
The scope should name the pages, both languages, the forms, any integration, the revision rounds included, and the go-live date. It should also name what is excluded. Content writing, photography, logo design and third-party fees are the usual gaps. At Tech Corners every project starts with a written one-page scope, then 50% to start and 50% before go-live, with the exact quote issued within 48 hours.
Fictional example, not a client result: a Jeddah clinic asks for a website. Discovery turns that into six pages, an Arabic-first content plan, one booking form, a WhatsApp button and two revision rounds. Anything beyond that becomes a priced change request instead of an argument a week before launch. For budget ranges before you brief anyone, read the guide to website cost in Saudi Arabia.
Most of your Jeddah customers read the Arabic page. Arabic should be written first and English adapted from it, not machine-translated the night before launch. Ask for the content plan as a document, page by page.
A usable plan states, for every page: the Arabic heading and body, the English version, the page title and description, the wording of the call to action, and who supplies each item. It also fixes deadlines for your photos, your commercial details and your service descriptions, because late content is the most common cause of a late launch.
Check that Arabic is treated as a full right-to-left layout, not mirrored text inside a left-to-right design. Numbers, forms, buttons and the language switch all need review in both directions. More on that split in running a bilingual website.
Most of your traffic arrives on a phone over mobile data. The design should be approved at phone width first, then extended to desktop.
Expect real screens rather than a mood board: the home page, one service page, the contact page, and the states people actually hit. That means a form with an error, a form after success, and a 404 page. Tap targets should suit a thumb, and text should be readable without zooming.
Sign off the Arabic screens as carefully as the English ones. Arabic script needs more line height and a size that stays legible on a small display. If the review meeting only ever shows wide desktop mockups, ask for the phone version before you approve anything.
The build is where enquiries are won or lost. Ask for these to be demonstrated, not described:
Confirm which number and which inbox receive enquiries, and who watches them on weekends. A fast site with a silent form is worse than a slow site with a phone number that works.
You are not buying a search position. You are buying the basics that let people find the business and trust it: an accurate name, address and phone number, a page title and description written per page in both languages, a sitemap, correct language annotations, and a Google Business Profile created under your own account.
Ask which of these sit inside the project price and which are billed monthly. Ongoing optimisation is a separate commitment with a separate budget. The groundwork is covered in the guide to local SEO for Jeddah businesses. Treat any promise of first place as a reason to slow down and read the contract again.
Handover is a deliverable with a list, not an email saying the site is live. Before the final payment, confirm that you hold:
Accounts opened under a supplier's personal email are the most expensive thing to untangle later.
Do not accept a site from a screenshot. Take two phones, one Android and one iPhone, switch off Wi-Fi, and work through a short list in both languages:
Write down what fails, agree who fixes it and by when, then retest. Ten minutes here prevents most launch-week complaints.
Software does not stand still. Plugins, certificates, browsers and phones all change, and a site left alone for a year tends to show it.
Ask what support is included in the project price and for how long, then what a monthly plan covers afterwards. Tech Corners Care plans start from 300 SAR/month for backups, security updates and uptime monitoring, and from 750 SAR/month once content changes, priority support and a monthly report are included. Ongoing search work is a separate plan from 1,500 SAR/month.
Whatever you agree, put the response time, the contact channel and the scope in writing. A promise of being always available is not a support agreement.
Keep the conversation on deliverables. Five questions usually reveal how the project will run:
Compare the answers against a written scope and a published starting price. Tech Corners lists starting prices on the packages page: from 900 SAR for a single bilingual landing page, from 2,500 SAR for a five-page bilingual website, and from 4,500 SAR for a custom design with booking or e-commerce. To see those numbers against a local budget, read what a website costs in Jeddah, or send us your scope.