Laredo web design for a page that may have to say everything twice.

A translated sentence rarely comes out the same length as the original, so a button, a heading or a menu that fits in one language can break in the other. That's a design problem, and it's cheaper to solve on the first sketch than on the fortieth page. We can build in Spanish. It isn't on our published list, so we'd quote it. If you went ahead, we'd expect to give each language a page of its own, put the switch where a thumb can find it, and let the longer version set the width. The freight buyer reading the same site gets a first screen that says what you handle. The family looking for dinner gets the menu and the hours.

We have no Laredo figures here, and we didn't measure language. Laredo's few mapped sites sit inside our 31-city sample, so everything in this paragraph describes that group, 1274 sites in all. The median homepage weighed 3.08 MB, and 383 of 1228 came in under 2 MB. 62% failed the contrast check on at least some text. 22% had some tap targets too small or too close. Headings skipped a level somewhere on 47%. Those are things to look for on your own homepage, in each language, because a fix made in one version doesn't always carry to the other.

A new site runs from $1,500 to $5,750 at a fixed price, up to 70 pages, set by page count. Spanish pages aren't on that list, so we'd quote them. If the look still suits you and only one piece is missing, design fixes cost less, with repairs from $149. The Laredo report covers the rest of the argument. Send us your site and tell us who your two readers are, and we'll say what we'd change first.