SoloWorks — Web development
Sites that load
on island data
Websites planned around what visitors need to do, built to load quickly on mobile data, in Dhivehi, English or both, and handed over so your team can update them.
Service profile
- Service :
- Web development
- Clients :
- SMEs, tourism, public bodies
- Build :
- Fast, accessible, editable
- Care :
- Optional monthly plan
[01] Services
What we do
A website is often the first place a customer, guest or client meets you, and for many local businesses it is the step after Instagram and Viber. We plan the pages around what visitors need to do, build them to load quickly on island mobile data and over long international links, write them to MIRA's price-display rules and, for tourist properties, the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation's advertising rules, and hand you a site your team can update.
Discovery and sitemap
Audience, goals and a page-by-page plan before any design starts.
Design
Layouts and a visual system in your brand, designed for the phone first, with Dhivehi pages set in Thaana, right to left, for a local audience.
Build
Modern, accessible code to WCAG 2.2 AA, served from a global edge network so pages stay fast on the long routes out of the Maldives.
Orders, bookings and payments
Online orders, appointment and room bookings, and card payments through BML Connect, MIB or another gateway licensed by the Maldives Monetary Authority, with the full price, GST included, clear before the customer pays.
Content and SEO
Copy, photos and the structure search engines need, with honest claims, and for tourist properties written to the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation's advertising regulation: licensed category only, sponsored content labelled.
Privacy and terms
A privacy notice, consent for analytics and clear delivery, cancellation and refund terms, written to the Consumer Protection Act and, where you serve overseas guests, Europe's GDPR.
Care plan
Updates, backups, monitoring and small changes every month.
[02] Sample deliverable
| Check | Budget | Measured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Largest contentful paint | < 2.5 s | 1.6 s | Pass |
| Interaction to next paint | < 200 ms | 90 ms | Pass |
| Page weight, home | < 1.0 MB | 0.82 MB | Pass |
| Accessibility score | ≥ 95 | 92 | Action |
| Menu prices shown with GST | Yes | Yes | Pass |
| Dhivehi pages mirror right to left | Yes | Yes | Pass |
When you need it
- —Customers only find you on social media and you want orders or enquiries through your own site
- —Your website is slow, dated or hard to update
- —You are opening a new business or property
- —Guests cannot book direct, so you pay too much commission
Outcome
A fast, live website your team can edit, with honest pricing, analytics and a care plan if you want one.
[03] Process
From brief to handover
Each stage closes with something you keep and sign off. Hire us for the whole run or for the stage you need.
- 01
Discovery
Who visits, what they need to do and what the site must achieve.
- —Sitemap
- —Content plan
- 02
Design
Key pages designed on the phone first, then the desktop.
- —Page designs
- 03
Build
Built, connected to booking, payments and forms, and tested on real devices on island mobile data.
- —Staging site
- 04
Launch
Content checked against the advertising and pricing rules, redirects set, performance checked, then live.
- —Live site
- —Launch audit
- 05
Care
Updates, backups and small changes each month.
- —Monthly report
Can we update the site ourselves?
Yes. We set up an editor for the pages you change often and show your team how to use it.
Can customers order and pay online?
Yes. We build online ordering and appointment booking for shops and services, or connect the booking engine or channel manager a hotel already uses. Card payments run through a local gateway such as BML Connect or MIB Global Pay, or another provider licensed by the Maldives Monetary Authority.
Should our site be in Dhivehi?
If most of your customers are Maldivian, yes, or in both languages. Dhivehi is written in Thaana from right to left, so the layout has to mirror properly and use fonts made for it. We design both versions together rather than bolting one on later.
How should we show prices?
MIRA requires prices shown to customers to include GST. If you add a service charge, you may show prices before GST and service charge, as long as you say clearly that both will be added. For tourist properties we show the rate with 17% Tourism GST, the service charge and the green tax clearly set out, and the full total before the guest pays.
Are there rules on how tourist properties advertise online?
Yes. Since August 2025 the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation's advertising regulation has covered websites and social media. Only licensed properties, or those under development with the Ministry's permission, may advertise, and only at the category on their licence; ads and sponsored posts must be labelled; and claims such as wellness benefits need evidence. We check the content against it before launch.
Is there a data protection law we must follow?
Not yet. The government's Data Protection Bill went to Parliament in May 2026 and was still in committee in November. We build to a good standard anyway, close to Europe's GDPR, which already protects many overseas guests: a clear privacy notice, consent for analytics and only the data you need.
Who owns the site?
You do: the domain, the code and the content. If you ever move on, everything goes with you.
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Send a link to your current site, or a note on the business, and what the new site needs to do. We reply with a plan and a fixed quote.