Insights

Insights & guides

Our thinking on design, technology and the future of digital experiences — plus practical guides to scoping, budgeting and running a web project in Morocco.

Designing and building a site

Scoping, budgeting, holding a date, and what happens once the site is live.

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Guide · 9 min read

How to choose a web agency in Morocco

A good-looking portfolio proves very little. Here is what to actually check before handing your website to someone.

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Web Design · 7 min read

Custom website or template?

The honest answer is not "always custom". Here is how to decide, based on what your site actually has to achieve.

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Web Design · 6 min read

Why every business needs a high-performance website

A slow or badly built mobile site costs you clients, even when the product behind it is excellent. Here is what is at stake, and the order to fix it in.

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Technical · 5 min read

.ma or .com: which domain should you choose?

A decision made in two minutes and kept for ten years. What matters, and what does not.

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Technical · 6 min read

Where should you host a website from Morocco?

"A Moroccan server for Moroccan visitors" sounds obvious. The technical reality is more interesting.

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Technical · 7 min read

Building a multilingual website in Morocco

A button that swaps the text does not make a site multilingual. Without its own URL, the second language does not exist to a search engine.

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Guide · 6 min read

Writing the brief for your website

A clear brief is not only for the supplier: it is what lets you compare two quotes and squeeze the uncertainty out of the price.

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Guide · 8 min read

How long does it take to build a website in Morocco?

The short answer: development is almost never what delays a website. Content, sign-off and the bank file are.

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Technical · 7 min read

What happens after launch: maintenance and security

A website is not something delivered once. It is software connected to the internet, and it degrades on its own if nobody tends it.

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Compliance · 7 min read

Websites and personal data: CNDP compliance in Morocco

The moment a site collects a name and an email address it is processing personal data. In Morocco that processing falls under law 09-08 and is declared to the CNDP.

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Web Design · 8 min read

Photography on a premium website

A handsome site with stock images looks like a handsome empty site. It is the budget line cut first and regretted fastest.

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Brand identity

What an identity contains, what it costs, and when changing it is justified.

Selling online

Platforms, payments, delivery and launch, in the Moroccan context.

By sector

Hospitality, dining, healthcare, property: what the trade changes about the design.

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Sectors · 8 min read

Riads and hotels: taking back direct bookings

Every booking through a platform leaves a commission behind. The calculation that matters is not leaving the platforms, but shifting a share of the volume.

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Sectors · 8 min read

A medical practice website in Morocco: what the code of conduct allows

A practice can have a website, and should. What it cannot do is use it as advertising — and that constraint dictates almost the whole design.

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Sectors · 7 min read

Estate agencies: your own site when the portals exist

The question is not "site or portal". Portals capture the buyer looking for a property; the site captures the one looking for a professional — and it is the second who gives you a mandate.

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Sectors · 7 min read

A restaurant website in Morocco: menu, booking, delivery

Four pieces of information decide the visit: where, when, what, how much. A restaurant website that gives them in ten seconds has done most of its job.

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Sectors · 9 min read

The website of an architecture practice

An architecture practice is judged on its projects, not on its arguments. Almost every site in the trade does the opposite.

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Sectors · 8 min read

Serving international visitors online: which languages, and how far

Adding a language is not a button. It is a maintenance commitment, and the useful question is not “how many languages” but “which ones, and on which pages”.

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AI and search

What conversational engines change for a Moroccan business.

Deciding

Choosing a supplier, weighing a budget, working remotely.

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Strategy · 8 min read

How much does a website cost in Morocco?

Why two quotes for "the same website" can differ tenfold, and the six factors that actually explain the gap.

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Strategy · 7 min read

What does an online store cost in Morocco?

A store costs more than a brochure site, and not for the reasons people assume. The six line items that actually make the difference.

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Strategy · 7 min read

Website redesign: when should you rebuild?

"It looks a bit old" is not a reason to rebuild a site. Here are the reasons that are — and the technical trap that costs the most.

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Strategy · 8 min read

Your website is not converting: where to start

Before redesigning, check that design is the problem. Nine times out of ten it is somewhere else — and often in the fact that nobody fills in forms.

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Strategy · 8 min read

Working with a Moroccan studio: what actually changes

Most articles on this subject sell cheaper hours. That is the wrong reason to choose a studio, and the first thing to set aside.

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Strategy · 9 min read

World Cup 2030: what actually needs preparing on your website

A date that cannot move is a rare gift in planning. The trick is using it to do the right things, rather than to be sold urgency.

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Strategy · 9 min read

Digitalising a Moroccan business: where to start, and in what order

Most digitalisation projects fail because they start with the most visible step rather than the most useful one.

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A project to scope?

Thirty minutes is enough to tell you what is worth doing now, what can wait, and what it involves.