Pieria fills every summer with visitors from the Balkans who pick a room and a taverna from their phone a few days before they set off. If your site is slow, or has no Serbian and Romanian, that search ends somewhere else. This audience decides fast and the site has to keep up.
Out of season, local retailers and producers want something different: a catalogue, a price list and a way for a customer to order without ringing. I take on both remotely, at a fixed price and to an agreed date.
Mount Olympus brings a different visitor to the one lying on a sunbed at Olympic Beach. A hiker looking at refuges, transfers up to Prionia or a guided ascent wants routes, elevation profiles, kit lists and dates with availability, and usually searches for all of it in English. They book early and spend more, so a page built specifically for them pays back out of proportion to the effort.
In Katerini hospitality the biggest single win is unglamorous: put the menu on a real page instead of a photo or a PDF. A PDF does not read well on a phone, Google barely indexes it, and it will never appear in a search for a particular dish. An HTML menu with prices, allergens and a table booking button brings in visits the PDF never could.
Local SEO here is winnable precisely because few people do it properly. It takes one page per service, contact details identical across the site, the map and the directories, structured data declaring what kind of business you are, and reviews arriving steadily. Most competitors have a site that loads in five seconds and copy written in 2016, so the room is there.
The build runs remotely, with one video call for the plan and a link showing progress. Prices are published: from 590 euro for a presentation site and from 1,490 for an e-shop, with the figure and the date written into the quote before I start.
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 — Katerini
Can the site run in Balkan languages?
Yes. Beyond Greek and English I add Serbian, Romanian or Bulgarian, each on its own address so it turns up in searches from that country.
Will I show up on Google Maps?
The site links to your Google Business profile with matching contact details and structured data, so the two agree. That agreement counts for a lot in local search.
Will it be ready before the season?
If we start by March, yes. A presentation site takes one to three weeks and an e-shop a little longer, and we put the timeline in writing before I begin.
What does a website for a Katerini business cost?
From 590 euro for a presentation site with a map, a form and technical SEO. From 1,490 for an e-shop with a cart and payments. Extra languages, a booking engine and bulk product imports are quoted separately and listed line by line.
How long before I see search results?
For searches with the city name, the first signs usually show six to twelve weeks after launch. It helps a great deal if your map profile is already complete and reviews keep coming, because locally those two count as much as the site does.
Can I change the menu and prices myself?
Yes. Menu, price list and photos are edited from a simple panel, without asking me and without a charge. For a restaurant with a seasonal menu that is one of the most useful parts of the whole site.
I only have a Facebook page. Is a site worth it?
It is, because Facebook does not surface in Google the same way and the audience there is not yours. A small site carrying what people look for, hours, prices, location and contact, covers the gap without giving up social media.
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.