Elato.gr — Christmas Fir Trees
We designed and developed elato.gr, a bilingual (Greek/English) website for Elato Karantaglis, a family-run natural Christmas fir tree farm established in 1980 in Taxiarchis, Chalkidiki. The 10-page site showcases their potted living trees, Christmas trees, and tree rental services alongside a filterable gallery with lightbox, a dedicated page about the mountain village of Taxiarchis, and a contact form with PHPMailer. Built with PHP 8.5 and vanilla JS with no database — all bilingual content is managed through JSON language files. The site features snow particle animations on the hero, scroll reveals, structured data for two business locations (Chalkidiki HQ + seasonal Athens branch), Plausible cookieless analytics, and full WCAG 2.1 AA compliance.
Technologies
PHP
HTML5
CSS3
Vanilla JavaScript
JSON i18n
PHPMailer
Structured Data
Multilingual
Responsive Design
SEO
Challenges
Presenting a seasonal rural family business with two locations as a professional brand, while supporting full bilingual content without a database or dependencies.
Solutions
Used JSON-based i18n for bilingual content, PHP routing for clean URL patterns (/en/ prefix for English), structured data for both business locations, and a lightweight zero-dependency architecture for fast performance.
