Website & e-shop development in Heraklion

Two kinds of client dominate in Heraklion: tourism, and Cretan food products that leave the country. Both need a site that loads on a foreign phone with a mediocre connection, speaks more than Greek, and takes an overseas card at checkout without drama.

For accommodation and experience businesses the goal is a direct booking instead of another platform commission. For an olive oil, honey or wine producer, I set up shipping zones and per-product weights so postage calculates itself. All of it remote, at a price fixed up front.

Someone searching for a hire car, a guided visit to Knossos or a day trip is usually already on the island, deciding on a phone, on roaming, with very little patience. If your page needs five seconds to show a price, they are gone to the competitor who showed one in two. So I design the small screen first and put what people came for, the price, the duration and the meeting point, above the first scroll.

Exporters in the prefecture have a different problem: a buyer in Germany does not know what PDO means, does not recognise your brand and will not email to ask. Product pages get written for that person, with clear pack sizes, honest photography, shipping costs visible before checkout, and an explanation of provenance that reads like prose rather than a certificate.

Multilingual sites carry technical traps that quietly cost ranking. Each language needs its own address and correct hreflang, automatic redirects by visitor country confuse Google, and near-identical product pages need canonicals. I set all of that up at the start, along with the sitemap, structured data and Search Console.

Distance does not change how the work flows. One video call for the plan, a shared folder for material, a link showing progress and short updates every few days. Prices are published, from 590 euro for a presentation site and from 1,490 for an e-shop, agreed in writing before implementation starts.