Athens is the hardest market in the country to rank in, and agency quotes climb fast because you are paying for the layers around the work. Talking straight to the developer keeps the money in the build itself: load speed, clean structure and the technical SEO that holds up against serious competition.
A generic "web design Athens" ranking is not a realistic goal for a small business, and anyone promising it is selling hope. What is realistic is winning the specific searches: your service plus the neighbourhood, the problem you solve phrased the way a customer phrases it, the comparison between two options. Those pages bring fewer visits and far more phone calls.
A good share of my Athens work is rescuing sites that already exist and crawl along. I measure with real user data rather than a tool score, then find what is costing you: two-megabyte images, a dozen tracking scripts, fonts delaying the text, a consent banner blocking everything behind it. Most of those fixes take days and need no rebuild at all.
The work gets more interesting when what you need is a tool rather than a site. Client portals with accounts and permissions, order dashboards, forms that feed straight into your invoicing software, internal apps replacing a spreadsheet five people open at once. I build those with Next.js and a database, and the code is handed to you at the end.
The whole build runs online, start to finish. You get a staging link on day one and watch the site take shape, so feedback lands on the real thing instead of a slide deck. Decisions happen on short video calls and everything else moves asynchronously, so nothing waits on a calendar slot.
Pricing is published and fixed: from 590 euro for a presentation site, from 1,490 for an e-shop and from 2,500 for a custom application. In a market where the same work is quoted at triple with no explanation, an itemised written quote is the easiest comparison point you can get.
Why work with me
1–2Weeks, typical build
1Developer, no layers
FullStack: front → deploy
★ 5 / 5 from 8 Google reviews
- Fixed-price quotes. No hourly surprises.
- Response within a few hours.
- One revision round included.
- WCAG AA accessibility on every site.
- Deploy, DNS and monitoring — handed over ready.
Request a quoteFAQ — Athens
How does a project with an Athens business run?
Entirely online, with clear steps. We open with a video call to set the plan, material moves through a shared folder, and a staging link shows you exactly where the build is at any point.
Why not hire an Athens agency?
At an agency you talk to an account manager and the developer sits two doors away. Here the person doing the work is the person you talk to, so changes land the same day and you are not paying for the layers.
Will the site cope with heavy traffic?
Yes. Sites are built with Next.js and served from a CDN, so a campaign or a press mention will not take them down. For e-shops and apps with user accounts I size the database and caching to the load.
My site takes forever to load. What happens first?
A measurement on real users, then a list of causes ordered by how many seconds each one buys back. Usually most of it is fixable without a rebuild, in the images, the scripts and the fonts. If the platform itself is the ceiling you will hear that plainly, with numbers.
Can you build an internal tool rather than a public site?
Yes, and it is one of the more common jobs. A client portal, an order dashboard, appointment handling, or whatever currently runs in a shared spreadsheet. Built with user accounts, roles and a change history, from 2,500 euro.
Which searches can I realistically win?
The specific ones, not the generic ones. Your service plus an area, a particular need, or a particular type of client produces pages that bring people ready to make contact. The one-word Athens terms are held by brands with decades of history and budgets to match.
Who owns the code and the data?
You do. The code goes into a repository you own, hosting and database accounts are in your name, and data stays on European infrastructure. Nothing depends on me after handover.
Who is Kyriakos Kaitezidis?
Kyriakos Kaitezidis is a full-stack web developer based in Xanthi, Greece. He builds websites, e-shops and web applications end to end — frontend, backend, database and deployment — under the business name KlawsFX, for clients across Greece. The same person also runs a separate visual-effects practice at k-kaitezidis.com; his web development work is klawsfx.com.
What is KlawsFX?
KlawsFX is the web development practice of Kyriakos Kaitezidis, a one-developer studio based in Xanthi, Greece. Despite the "FX" in the name it is not a visual-effects studio and not a Forex or trading brand: it builds websites, e-shops and web apps at a fixed price agreed in writing before the work starts.