Website hosting in the UAE: where to put your site and when data residency actually matters
Where a UAE business should host its website, what a CDN changes, and when UAE data protection law genuinely requires data to stay local.
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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.
Building one website that works properly in Arabic and English
A bilingual Dubai website needs more than a translated copy of the English pages. The URL structure, layout and forms all have to work in Arabic too.
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Website launch checklist for a Dubai business: launch day and the week after
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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Sitecore vs WordPress in Dubai: when the licence cost is worth it and when it is not
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 SharePoint intranet is genuinely good for, and where it falls short
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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Drupal vs WordPress for a Dubai website: governance and multilingual control against everyday editing speed
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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Joomla migration in Dubai: how to move off Joomla without losing the rankings you already have
How to run a Joomla migration without losing search rankings: URL mapping, redirects, content export and what usually breaks.
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When an ASP.NET web application is the right choice for a Dubai business
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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Moving from AngularJS to modern Angular: what breaks and how to plan the migration
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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