Choosing a CMS in Dubai: three questions before you name a platform
Choosing a CMS for a UAE business by who edits it, what it integrates with and who maintains it, not by which platform sounds most impressive.
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Sourced, practical guides on marketing, design, websites, media and selling online in the UAE, written by the Digital Marketing Dubai team.

Choosing a CMS for a UAE business by who edits it, what it integrates with and who maintains it, not by which platform sounds most impressive.
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Where Ruby on Rails still makes sense for a Dubai startup, UAE hiring realities, and when a founder should choose something else.
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AngularJS support ended in 2022. What breaks in an AngularJS migration, how to move incrementally, and how to test the result.
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When ASP.NET Core suits a business application, current .NET support dates, hosting choices, and how it differs from a marketing website.
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How to run a Joomla migration without losing search rankings: URL mapping, redirects, content export and what usually breaks.
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Drupal's governance, permissions and multilingual structure against WordPress's speed of everyday editing, for a Dubai business choosing between them.
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What a SharePoint intranet genuinely handles well, where it is the wrong tool, and how permissions and document control actually work.
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What Sitecore's licence cost actually buys a Dubai business, where WordPress genuinely competes, and how to make the call.
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What a Dubai business should check on the day a new website goes live, and what to watch in the weeks after.
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This digital marketing blog for Dubai and wider UAE businesses covers advertising permits, SMS hours, VAT on menus and marketplace listing limits as they change. Each article names its primary sources, such as the regulator, the law or the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority‘s own help centre, and says when the information was checked. We write for owners and marketers who need a working answer, not a legal opinion, so each piece stays practical and short enough to act on the same day. None of it is legal or tax advice, and where a rule is genuinely unclear we say so rather than guessing. New articles go up whenever a platform changes its policy, a regulator updates a fee schedule, or a question keeps coming up from clients we work with directly, so the archive grows around real questions rather than a fixed publishing calendar. Treat this digital marketing blog as a working reference for Dubai teams: bookmark the sections closest to your own work and come back when a rule changes, rather than reading it once and then forgetting all about it.
Rules and choices behind campaigns in the UAE, from platform advertising policies to the permits an influencer or a promotional SMS needs. See digital marketing services.
Search, accessibility and online store requirements for UAE audiences, explained in plain terms rather than technical jargon. See web services.
Brand, packaging and print file guidance that keeps artwork print ready first time, with sizes, bleed and stock explained. See design services.
noon and Amazon.ae listing rules for UAE sellers, covering required fields, fees, returns and how the two marketplaces differ. See ecommerce marketplace services.