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French web design & development

French Website Development for International and Multilingual Organisations

French website development for organisations targeting the French market, covering web design, eCommerce, localisation and the user expectations that decide whether French visitors trust you.

  • Native French content and localisation
  • Design for French user expectations
  • Shopify, WooCommerce and CS-Cart
  • Technical SEO foundations

Our approach

Led by native expertise

We support organisations entering or expanding in France with websites that reflect how French users expect digital platforms to function, communicate and build trust.

Rather than treating French sites as translations, we focus on structure, content hierarchy and tone so the site feels natural to French audiences across B2B, informational and eCommerce objectives. This reduces localisation risk and improves user confidence.

Team reviewing French website design layouts at a table

Design

Designing for French market expectations

Small mismatches in terminology, formatting or presentation quickly undermine credibility. We design with native-level language input so content presentation, number and currency formats, form behaviour and reassurance cues match local expectations.

French website content is developed by native specialists working alongside our developers and marketers, covering navigation labels, calls to action, product information, forms and supporting content.

French website design for an online store on two screens

Online stores

French eCommerce

We develop French eCommerce websites on Shopify, WooCommerce and CS-Cart, structured around how French customers research, compare and commit to a purchase. Content structure, checkout flows and reassurance messaging are aligned to reduce hesitation.

Our experience spans manufacturing, healthcare supplies, engineering, fashion and B2B distribution, keeping French stores consistent with wider international platforms.

Typing on a laptop beside printed photos, French eCommerce work

Services

What we build and manage

  • International site architecture

    Language and country structures that search engines and users understand.

  • Language management

    CMS setups that let your team maintain French content without developer help.

  • Integrations

    Analytics, CRM, payment and marketing tools connected across language versions.

  • Performance and security

    Fast, secure builds maintained by our UK team.

Need your website to perform in the French market?

Ask us for a French market site audit.

Case studies

French case studies

RealD 3D

French and Spanish · France and Spain

53,071

Unique link clicks on French ads

French and Spanish social ads for 3D cinema

French and Spanish social media management for the world's largest 3D cinema platform. From September 2018 to June 2019, French ads averaged a 2.33% unique click-through rate at $0.22 per unique click, against a $6.00 benchmark.

  • Paid social
  • Cinema
Read the full case study for RealD 3D

RealD 3D

French and Spanish · France and Spain

432%

More French page likes in the first 28 days

French and Spanish social for the world’s largest 3D cinema platform

A social media plan for each market, built on audience, competitor and industry research. Posts, ads and video subtitles are written in French and Spanish, and every piece of content is cleared with the film studios first.

  • Organic social
  • Cinema
Read the full case study for RealD 3D

Supreme Pet Foods

French · France

60%

Increase in Facebook page likes

A new French Facebook page with a highly engaged audience

We created the page, researched French personas and kept product posts to a low ratio, so the more sociable posts built likes, comments and shares.

  • Organic social
  • French
Read the full case study for Supreme Pet Foods

Userful

Four languages · Europe and Middle East

64%

More leads, August 2019 to January 2020

Multilingual PPC for a visual networking platform

Ads, emails and landing pages localised into four languages for Europe and the Middle East. Cost per conversion fell by 81% over the same period.

  • PPC
  • B2B
Read the full case study for Userful

Protolabs

French · France

80%

More conversions on the French site in 3 months

Landing pages and campaigns built for leads

New Google Ads campaigns in four languages, plus content suggestions to improve the conversion potential of the landing pages. On the French site, cost per conversion fell by 47%.

  • PPC
  • Landing pages
Read the full case study for Protolabs

RealD 3D

German, French and English · Europe

18%

Above the impressions benchmark

A TikTok influencer campaign for 3D cinema

A TikTok influencer campaign for a major film release, raising awareness of 3D screenings in Germany, France and the UK across three defined audience personas.

  • Social
  • Influencers
Read the full case study for RealD 3D

Selected clients

  • The Royal Marsden Private Care
  • London Specialist Hospitals
  • K9 Jets
  • RealD
  • Private Jet Charter
  • IRIS
  • FDS Consult
  • F1 Authentics
  • Fire Design Solutions
  • Holemaker Technology
  • Tiles360
  • Be Safe Direct

Good to know

Frequently asked questions

Can you add French to our existing site?

Usually, yes. We assess your CMS and structure, then add French in a way that supports SEO and ongoing content management.

Who writes the French content?

Native French specialists, working alongside our developers and marketers.

Still have a question?

Next step

Planning a French website? Let's talk about what it needs to achieve.

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