shakalakaa is a web design company for Penang organisations — Bayan Lepas manufacturers, private hospital groups and hospitality groups — run from our Kuala Lumpur headquarters.
Penang sites usually serve buyers outside Penang, such as overseas procurement teams. For UEM Edgenta, a Bursa-listed group, load time fell from 4.2 s to 1.6 s.
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Web design company Penang: your buyers are elsewhere
Few Penang sites serve walk-in customers.
A Bayan Lepas supplier is judged by a buyer abroad, a hospital by a patient in Medan, a heritage hotel by a planner in Singapore. So every Penang brief we take starts with one question: who reads the site, and from where?
Bayan Lepas sites are read like datasheets
Electronics and manufacturing buyers arrive with a specification, not a city name.
Capability pages
processes, certifications, tolerances and capacity, each on its own page so an engineer finds it in one search.
English first, built for export
written for buyers in other time zones who never call before shortlisting.
Enquiries that qualify
RFQ forms that capture part, volume and timeline, routed to the right desk.
Manufacturers should hold any agency to one test: can a buyer abroad confirm capability without a call?
Medical travel and direct bookings
Two Penang sectors where the website is the sale, and both run on rules.
Hospital groups
treatment and specialist pages written inside Malaysia's healthcare advertising rules, with enquiry routing by language.
Hospitality groups
booking engines wired in so direct bookings are measured against OTA bookings.
Language mix
English, Bahasa Indonesia and Chinese pages where the patient or guest data supports them.
A hospital page that over-claims is a compliance problem, not a copy problem. We write to the rules before the design.
What we build, and the proof
Export manufacturers and medical-travel providers get one team that plans, designs, builds and measures the site, run from Kuala Lumpur.
WordPress
for capability and group sites a Penang marketing team updates as plants, lines and certifications change.
Custom builds
for RFQ portals, patient enquiry routing and booking engines, with the CRM and form tracking wired in.
Shopify
for Penang brands selling direct to buyers at home and abroad, on a custom theme.
Our proof is Malaysian group work, not a Penang client. For UEM Edgenta, a Bursa-listed group, we built 45+ corporate pages and modules and load time fell from 4.2 s to 1.6 s. Lifnex mobile Lighthouse rose from 31 to 98.
Work we can show
Lifnex
Audio e-commerce · Urbanista and JVC · Web development, Shopify31 → 98 mobile Lighthouse score · custom Shopify theme
A custom Shopify theme: native Liquid in place of app scripts, product specifications rendered from metafields, and Core Web Vitals work on every template.UEM Edgenta Berhad
Listed group · ESG · Web design, Video−72% CO₂e per page view
Copywriting, corporate page building and design, and video and photography for the group's sustainability communications.Pantai Hospital Malaysia
Private hospital · SEO+235% international organic visitors
Cross-border search for international patients, measured as appointments through the International Patient Centre.Web design company Penang, in depth
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Group sites for industrial zones
Group sites in the free industrial zones often carry several entities, plants or certifications. We build them as one site with a page per capability, so each answers its own search and none dilutes the others.
The search side of the same work is covered on our SEO in Penang page.
Groups with a head office elsewhere often brief Kuala Lumpur or Johor Bahru sites with us too.
Medical-travel content and claims
Medical-travel content is read by patients comparing hospitals across a border. Claims, testimonials and before-and-after images are governed the same way on the website as in an ad, so we review them before launch, not after.
Paid traffic to these pages is covered on our Google Ads in Penang page.
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Frequently asked questions
Do you have an office in Penang?
No. We run Penang projects from our Kuala Lumpur headquarters, and we say so rather than imply a local office. Workshops happen on site or by video; the build, the launch and the reporting are the same wherever the client sits.
Website design company Penang: what should manufacturers check first?
Whether it writes for the buyer, not the visitor. Bayan Lepas buyers are procurement and engineering teams, often abroad, who need capability, certification and capacity pages they can check without a call. A site built like a brochure fails that test even when it looks good.
Can you build a hospital website that stays inside the advertising rules?
Yes. Treatment pages, specialist profiles and patient stories are written against Malaysia's healthcare advertising rules before design starts, and the same review applies to the ads that send traffic to them.
Do you build on WordPress, Shopify or custom code?
All three. Manufacturers usually want WordPress, so marketing can add capability and certification pages without a developer; hospital groups often need custom code to route enquiries by language; consumer brands sell on Shopify. We choose after the brief.
How is the project priced?
Each build is scoped and quoted after a discovery call. The quote follows page count, the plants or sites covered, languages, and integrations such as RFQ or patient-enquiry routing. We do not publish a rate card.
How long does a Penang website project take?
A full corporate site typically takes four to eight weeks from discovery to launch; multi-language, booking or portal work takes longer. The schedule is fixed in the scope, with content deadlines on both sides.