800website is a Dubai web design agency working to published delivery windows. Here is what those windows mean and what makes projects slip.
How long does it take to build a website in Dubai?
7 days for a landing page, 14 days for a six-page business site, and 21 days for a ten-plus page site with English and Arabic. A mobile app is 6 to 8 weeks. Those are our committed windows, measured from the day we have your content, photos and logo — not from the day you sign.
That distinction matters more than any other factor. A 14-day build with content ready on day one delivers in 14 days. The same build waiting on content delivers whenever the content arrives, which in practice is often four to six weeks later.
Across the wider Dubai market you will see quotes from one week to three months for similar-sounding briefs. The spread is mostly scope and process, not speed of typing.
What actually determines the timeline?
In order of impact:
- Content readiness. The dominant factor, by a distance. Text and photographs for every page.
- Page count and functionality. Payments, bookings and multiple languages each add real work.
- Number of decision makers. One approver moves fast. A committee adds a week per review round.
- Revision rounds. Our packages include one full round (two on Premium). Extra rounds are AED 200 each and add days.
- Third-party dependencies. A payment gateway needing a trade licence and bank account can take longer than the entire build.
That last one catches UAE businesses regularly. If your project needs online payments, start the gateway application immediately — before design begins — because approval timelines are outside anyone’s control.
How many revisions should a project include?
One full round is normal for a standard build; two for a premium one. A “full round” means you review the whole design and send consolidated feedback once, rather than a stream of individual changes.
That structure exists to protect the timeline, not to limit you. Unlimited revisions sound generous and reliably produce projects that never finish, because there is no forcing point where a decision gets made.
The way to get the most from your round: gather all feedback from everyone who has an opinion before sending anything, and be specific. “Make the header stronger” produces a guess. “Increase the headline to 60px and move the button above the image” produces the result you wanted.
Can a website be built faster if I pay more?
Sometimes, but less than people expect. Adding people to a small web project has limited effect — much of the work is sequential, and the queue is usually your approvals and content rather than our capacity.
What genuinely compresses a timeline: reducing scope, having content ready, having one decision maker, and accepting a template-led design rather than a fully custom one. Our 7-day AED 999 Starter is fast precisely because it is two pages with a defined structure.
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800website is a Dubai web design and development agency with published fixed prices. Send the details and you get a fixed scope and a fixed price back — no hourly billing. Contact us, message us on WhatsApp, or call +971 58 578 5380.
