WEBSITE REDESIGN · DUBAI
I'm Emad Yahya — a web developer and designer in Dubai who rebuilds outdated, slow websites into fast, custom-coded ones. Not a new theme on the same bones: a proper redesign — new design, new engineering, and an SEO migration done carefully enough that the rankings your old site earned survive the switch.
In 2026 alone, three brand sites I designed and built went live — a private-residences interior studio, a luxury property developer and a creative agency. All custom-coded in React and TypeScript: no WordPress, no theme, no page builder. That is the standard your rebuild gets.
The reason most businesses postpone a redesign is not the design — it is the fear of losing the Google traffic the old site quietly earns. The fear is justified: a rebuild that ignores existing URLs can erase years of accumulated rankings overnight. So the migration is engineered, not improvised: every existing URL is inventoried, a 301 redirect map carries old addresses to their new homes, pages that already rank keep their titles and content structure, and the new sitemap goes straight back to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools — then I watch the indexes through the switch.
An honest note: nobody controls Google's index, and any developer guaranteeing your rankings is selling certainty they do not have. What you can control is doing every migration mechanic right — and shipping a faster, cleaner, better-structured site than the one you had, which is exactly the input search engines reward.
The three client sites live in 2026 — LKYOOB, UNHID and THE GROE — are the visible half of the proof. None of them carries a template look: typography, motion and layout are decided in code, built for each brand, at speed a theme stack cannot match.
The other half is that I take search seriously enough to have built a product around it: an AI visibility and SEO/GEO coaching SaaS that scans how ChatGPT-, Gemini- and Perplexity-style engines see a brand and generates the technical fixes — JSON-LD schema, llms.txt, robots.txt. Those are the standards a rebuild of mine ships with, including this site itself: bilingual English/Arabic, prerendered to static HTML, structured data on every page.
It depends on scope — how many pages, whether content is reused or rewritten, and whether features like booking or bilingual Arabic are added. As a freelancer my pricing is typically well below Dubai agency rates for identical scope. Send me your current site and what you want it to become, and you get a fixed written quote within 24 hours — no obligation.
This is the right question — botched migrations are how sites lose years of SEO overnight. My process protects it mechanically: every existing URL is mapped with 301 redirects, ranking pages keep their titles and content structure, structured data is added, and Search Console is watched through the switch. No honest developer guarantees rankings — but the migration mechanics that protect them are built into how I scope a rebuild.
A corporate or brand website rebuild: 2–4 weeks. Add custom features — booking, dashboards, bilingual Arabic — and it runs longer, scoped per feature. Your current site stays live the whole time; the switch happens only when the new one is approved.
Yes — rebuilding a WordPress or template site as a custom-coded React site is exactly the brief this service exists for. Your content and URLs are migrated; the theme, plugin stack and its endless security updates are retired. The result is faster, safer and entirely yours.
Yes — the new site is built and reviewed on a private preview link in parallel. When you approve it, the domain switches over in one step, redirects go live at the same moment, and there is no downtime.
Yes — bilingual English/Arabic with correct RTL layout is one of the most common reasons Dubai businesses rebuild. I am a native Arabic speaker: the Arabic is written, not machine-translated.
Just your current website address and a short note on what is wrong with it — slow, dated, invisible, or all three. I audit it, and you receive a fixed written quote within 24 hours.
Emad Yahya — portfolio · emaadyahya4@gmail.com · WhatsApp +971 566 392 647