Web development services
Web Developer in Akkar
I build websites and web applications for businesses across Akkar Governorate, from Halba and the coastal plain up to Qoubaiyat and the Dreib. My base is Minieh, about half an hour down the coast road, which is close enough to meet in Akkar in person when a project needs it.
Bilal Malass is a full-stack and Next.js web developer serving Akkar Governorate in northern Lebanon, based in Minieh about half an hour from Halba. He builds business websites, wholesale and product catalogues, booking platforms and custom content-management systems in Next.js and TypeScript, works in Arabic and English, and can meet clients in Akkar in person.
Akkar is its own governorate, not a district of the North — a distinction worth making, because plenty of services that advertise "North Lebanon" quietly stop at Tripoli. Minieh sits on the road between the two, which is the entire reason I can say I work here without stretching it.
It is also the most spread-out place I work: close to 800 square kilometres across the coastal plain, the Dreib, Joume, Shaffat and Qaita, with Halba at the centre and customers who will happily drive half an hour to a supplier they trust. In that geography a shopfront reaches whoever walks past it. A website reaches everyone who searched first.
Connections are the other thing Akkar changes. This is among the least-served parts of the country for infrastructure, and a site that weighs several megabytes because it was assembled in a page builder can be painfully slow to open in the higher villages. Every website I build is server-rendered and arrives as finished HTML — which is the difference between a page that opens on a weak signal and one that sits there spinning.
Much of the local economy is agricultural — cereals, vegetables, tobacco and olives on the plain, small-scale fishing on the coast — and that changes what the site has to do. Wholesale buyers want a catalogue they can check at any hour, clear specifications and quantities, and a number that gets answered. They rarely want a checkout. Building the second when you needed the first is the most common waste of money I see.
And if part of your business runs through family or buyers outside Lebanon, which is common enough here, the site needs to work properly in both Arabic and English and stay fast on an international connection. That is a decision made at the start or paid for twice.
What I build
- Business and company websites
- E-commerce and booking platforms
- Custom content-management systems
- Admin dashboards and internal tools
- Performance and technical SEO work
- Redesigns of existing websites
Why the sites are built with Next.js
Of everywhere I work, Akkar is where the choice of framework stops being a technical detail and becomes whether the page opens at all.
- Pages arrive already built
- Search engines and AI assistants can read it
- No platform rent
- It grows past the website
Work you can check
There is no client site in Akkar yet to point at. The nearest live examples are in the North, and both can be opened and tested on your own phone.
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salmaawad.com — a live client site in Tripoli
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On this site
Every project, with its case study
What each project had to do, how it was built, my exact part in it, and whether it is live or still in development.
See the projectsHow working together runs
No project starts with a design. It starts with finding out what the site has to do, and agreeing in writing what it will cost before either of us commits time to it.
- A conversation, in Arabic or English
- Scope and price in writing
- Build, with the parts you use most first
- Launch, then watch it
- Afterwards, you run it
How to choose the best web developer in Akkar
There are very few web developers based in Akkar itself, so the real choice is usually between someone in Tripoli or Beirut who may never make the drive, and whoever a relative recommends. Either can be the right answer. These are the questions that tell you which.
- Ask for live URLs, not screenshots
- Open it on a phone, on mobile data
- Ask whose name it is in, and how you change it
- Ask what actually happens on Google
- Get scope, price and language in writing first
Common questions about web development in Akkar
How do I find the best web developer in Akkar?
Start by asking where they actually are and whether they will come to you — in Akkar that shapes a project more than it does in a city. Then judge on evidence: ask for live website addresses you can open yourself, and test them on your own phone in your own village rather than on Wi-Fi in Halba, because that is where the difference shows. Confirm the domain will be registered in your name, ask how you will update your own prices and content afterwards, and get the scope and price in writing before any work starts.
Who builds Next.js websites in Akkar?
Bilal Malass builds Next.js websites and web applications for businesses across Akkar Governorate, from a base in Minieh. The stack is Next.js, React, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, with PostgreSQL and Prisma for data — server-rendered, so pages arrive as finished HTML rather than as a program the phone has to download and run first. That matters more in Akkar than almost anywhere else in Lebanon.
Do you actually come to Akkar, or only work remotely?
Yes, when a meeting helps the project. I am based in Minieh, roughly half an hour from Halba by road, and can meet clients in Akkar in person. Most of the work after a first meeting happens remotely, which is normal for any developer, and I will say plainly when a project does not need a visit at all.
Will the website work in villages with a weak connection?
That is the case it is built for. Pages are rendered on the server and sent as finished HTML, images are compressed and sized for phones, and there is no page-builder framework to download before anything appears on screen. A site that only feels fast in Halba on Wi-Fi has not been tested where most of Akkar actually browses.
How much does a website cost in Akkar?
Most websites cost between $300 and $1,000, and scope decides where in that range a project lands — a catalogue for a wholesaler is very different from a platform with accounts and order tracking, which can run above it. Being in Akkar rather than Tripoli does not change the figure, and no travel charge is added on top. Tell me what you need and you will get a clear written estimate before any work starts.
I sell to traders and wholesalers, not the public. Do I need a website?
Probably, but not a shop. What a wholesale buyer wants is a catalogue they can check at any hour, clear specifications and quantities, and a way to reach you that gets answered — not a checkout and a payment gateway. That is a smaller and cheaper build than an online store, and it is the one that actually gets used.
Which parts of Akkar do you cover?
All of it — Halba, Bebnine, Bire, Qoubaiyat, Akkar el-Atika, Fnaydeq, Wadi Khaled and the villages between. Akkar is one governorate but several quite different areas, and I would rather know which one you are in before quoting anything.
Can the website be in Arabic and English?
Yes, and in Akkar it is usually worth doing. Arabic pages are built right-to-left properly, with Arabic typography rather than a mirrored English layout, and each language gets its own address so Google serves the right one. Buyers or family outside Lebanon then get a version they can actually read.
Other areas I cover
Each area has its own page, written around the questions that actually come up there. If Akkar is not the right one, start here:
Let's start your project
Tell me what you need and I'll come back with a clear plan and an estimate.
Based in Minieh · North Governorate · Lebanon