International clients
Websites, eshops and brand identities, built in Athens and run in English.
Symbols House of Brands is a studio in Athens. We have worked from 2013, and a growing part of what we build now lives outside Greece. This page is for you if you found us in the colophon of a site we made and want to know who is behind it.
The whole project runs in English
Greek and English are both first languages of the team. That is not a line about translation. It means the brief, the calls, the written decisions, the code comments, the admin interface you will be handed and the support you get afterwards are all in English, by the same people who did the work. Nothing goes through an intermediary and nothing is translated after the fact.
Copy we write for you is written in English, not written in Greek and then converted. If your market needs a second language, we build the site bilingual from the start, with the hreflang pairing done properly rather than added later.
What we do
Website development. Static sites and custom builds that are generated ahead of time and served from the edge, so a page opens in well under a second on a phone with a weak signal. No content management system exposed to the internet, no monthly plugin maintenance, no theme that a hundred other companies in your sector are also using. We write the templates for your project.
Eshop development. From a small catalogue to a few thousand products, with the checkout, payment methods and stock handling that your market actually uses. We have built on our own platform and on the usual hosted ones, and we will tell you plainly which one fits your volume instead of selling you the larger option.
Branding. Naming, logo, type, colour, print and the rules that keep it consistent once more than one person starts using it. Often this comes first and the site follows, because a site built before the brand is decided gets rebuilt.
Around these three sit the things that make them work: technical SEO and structured data, performance, hosting, and the measurement setup that tells you whether any of it paid off.
How working with a studio abroad actually goes
We are in the Eastern European time zone, which is one to two hours ahead of central Europe and five to seven ahead of the US east coast. In practice most of the work is asynchronous, with a written summary after each stage, so you are never waiting on a call to find out where the project stands.
You own everything at the end. The code, the domain, the hosting account, the analytics property. We do not hold a client's domain or keep a site hostage in an account we control. If you ever move on, the handover is a transfer, not a rebuild.
Recent work outside Greece
La House of Pulse in Nice is a hot yoga and pilates studio with a bilingual site in English and French, built with two partner agencies handling strategy and SEO. The credits are on their colophon, which is where a lot of the visitors to this page come from.
Talk to us
Write to info@symbols.gr in English with what you are trying to build and roughly when you need it. You will get a written answer, not a form response, and if we are not the right studio for the job we will say so.
Our detailed service pages are in Greek, because that is still most of our market. If you read Greek, they go much deeper than this page: website development, eshop development, branding.