Local time · Hong Kong
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One hour ahead of the studio
- Languages
- English · Traditional Chinese · Simplified Chinese for mainland readers
- Messaging
- WhatsApp · WeChat for mainland clients · Email
- Payments
- FPS · Cards · PayMe, Octopus and Alipay HK
What matters here
Two languages, both first-class.
Most bilingual sites in Hong Kong treat Chinese as a layer bolted onto an English site. Menus wrap, headings break, forms lose their labels and the Chinese pages fall out of date. We plan English and Traditional Chinese together from the first wireframe.
Credibility at a glance.
A prospective client usually arrives with a name: a person, a referral, a service. The site should confirm that impression within seconds, with clear services, real people and a route to the right person rather than a general inbox.
Fast across the region.
Hong Kong audiences are mobile-first and impatient. We host close to the region and handle Chinese web fonts carefully. A badly loaded Chinese font can add megabytes to a page, and nobody notices until they test it on a phone.
English-led
English-led, for an international city.
Many Hong Kong businesses serve a mainly English-speaking clientele: expats, international companies and regional headquarters. For them, a precise English site with accurate people pages and a direct route to the right person is the priority.
- People and team pages that are easy to keep accurate
- Enquiries routed by service, not to a general inbox
- WhatsApp for clients who prefer it, with guidance on what not to send
- Hosting close to the region, with light pages
Going local
Traditional Chinese, structured properly.
Language is architecture, not decoration. Separate, crawlable language versions with correct hreflang make search engines show the right page to the right reader, and one editorial workflow keeps both current.
- Separate URLs (for example /en/ and /zh-hk/) with hreflang en-HK and zh-HK
- Typography tuned for Traditional Chinese: line length, line height, punctuation and font loading
- Translated metadata, structured data and form labels, not just body copy
- Simplified Chinese for mainland audiences, only where it serves real clients
- A publishing workflow that flags when one language falls behind the other
Data protection · PDPO (Cap. 486)
Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance shapes how a website may collect and use personal data. In practice, it affects every enquiry form, newsletter sign-up and client portal you run.
- A Personal Information Collection Statement presented where data is collected
- Collection limited to what the stated purpose needs
- Separate, explicit consent for direct marketing, recorded with a timestamp
- Access controls, retention rules and audit trails for client portals
We build to the requirements your business and its advisers define. This describes how we design, not legal advice or a compliance certification.
Sectors in Hong Kong
Questions
Do you have an office in Hong Kong?
No. The studio is founder-led and remote, on Bangkok time, one hour behind Hong Kong. We agree meeting times, channels and review points at the start of every project.
Can you write the Traditional Chinese content?
We plan the structure, the metadata and the publishing workflow for both languages. Final Chinese copy should come from your team or a professional translator, because tone matters. We coordinate the process and check the result technically.
Can enquiries come through WhatsApp?
Yes, if that is how your clients prefer to make contact. We add WhatsApp alongside a structured enquiry form, with clear guidance on what clients should and should not send through each.
Can you work with our existing software?
Often, yes. We check the available APIs, permissions and vendor terms during discovery and only commit to an integration once we have confirmed it works.
Next step
Send a short note about your business, your customers and what needs to change. You will get a considered, written reply within one working day, on Bangkok time.