Web development for Athens and Greek companies

Choosing a stack for a Greek project

The platform decision depends on who edits the site, how many languages it has and how much custom behavior it needs. We lay the options out honestly, including the ones we do not sell.

Our web development overview covers each service and the web app cost guide shows scope levels. If you want help comparing platforms, the website design page for Greece explains the design side.

Greek in code: details that break sites

• Fonts: many display fonts lack Greek letters, and the site silently falls back to a default. We pick fonts with a full Greek set and check accented capitals and the final sigma.
• Character encoding: UTF-8 end to end, including the database, emails and PDF exports.
• Sorting and search: alphabetical sort and site search must treat accented and unaccented letters as the same.
• Uppercase styling: CSS uppercase on Greek text can handle accents differently by browser, so test on real devices.
• Dates and numbers: day-month-year order and a comma as the decimal separator.
• Forms: a phone field that accepts +30 numbers and Greek names with accents.

None of this is hard. It is easy to forget when a site is built by a team that never types Greek. We keep a test checklist for it.

Rules a Greek site should respect

The GDPR applies, and the Hellenic Data Protection Authority (dpa.gr) is the regulator. In practice that means a consent banner that blocks non-essential cookies until the visitor agrees, a privacy notice that names the processors and forms that collect only what is needed. Our GDPR website checklist lists the points.

The European Accessibility Act applies from 28 June 2025 to many consumer-facing online services and shops in the EU, with some exemptions for very small businesses. Accessibility also helps all users. We build to WCAG 2.2 AA, test with a keyboard and a screen reader, and note any known gaps. Whether the law covers you is a question for your lawyer.

Hosting and speed

For Greek visitors we usually place the site on a host with servers in the EU, behind a content delivery network. Tourists arrive from many countries, often on phones with weak island signal, so page weight matters. We set a performance budget at the start, aim for good Core Web Vitals, and measure with Google's tools before launch. You can try the Core Web Vitals check on your current site.

Domains matter too. A .gr domain signals a Greek audience and is managed by the national registry; ask your registrar for the current rules. We never register domains in our own name.

Process and time zone

1. Brief and quoteA short call, then a fixed quote within one working day.
2. Design and buildMobile first, weekly staging links, one lead developer as your contact.
3. TestReal phones, Greek content, forms and payments, plus accessibility checks.
4. Launch and supportRedirects from old URLs, analytics and a 30-day fix window. Maintenance is available from $120 a month.

Athens is about three and a half hours behind Pune in winter and two and a half in summer. Projects start at $1,500, at $30 an hour. See also the Greece hub.

Web apps and integrations

Not every project is a brochure site. Greek firms often ask for a quoting tool, a customer portal, a booking engine tied to a calendar, or a dashboard that pulls figures from a spreadsheet and an accounting package. These are web apps, built with a front end, a database and a login system.

We scope them as a small first release that covers the main job, then add features once people use it. This keeps the first price near the low end and lets real use decide what comes next. Integrations with payment gateways, courier systems and accounting tools are checked early, since their rules and limits set the schedule more than our own code does.

Every app gets automated backups, error alerts and a short written guide for whoever maintains it next.