Lichtgitter Bulgaria manufactures contact-welded and press-locked grating, stair treads, fibreglass-reinforced resin grating and perforated profiles in Skutare, near Plovdiv. The company has been operating since 2004 and is part of the Lichtgitter Group, which has been making grating since 1929. Its customers include Aurubis, Solvey Sodi and KCM, and its grating can be found on the steel bridge in Simeonovgrad, at the ancient forum in Plovdiv and on the first licensed rooftop helipad in Bulgaria.
The old website was more than ten years old. It had no enquiry form, the home page loaded slowly because of its heavy images, and all 19 pages had the same title in Google. When we contacted the company about the form, the manager explained that the reason was simple: almost every enquiry comes with a drawing, hand sketch or diagram, every quotation is individual, and there is no price list.
So we built a drawing upload form. Customers attach a drawing, sketch or photo of the site (PDF, JPG, PNG, DWG or DXF), choose the material and surface treatment, and enter the dimensions, quantity and where the grating will be installed. The enquiry arrives in the company’s inbox with the file, ready for a quotation. There are no prices on the website, and there should not be.
The new website has 17 pages: a home page, the two types of grating with their technical details, industrial and architectural applications, projects the company is proud of, a delivery table, references and brochures that open directly on screen, plus about and contact pages with a map pointing to the exact company location. The design takes the red and dark tones from the Lichtgitter logo, while the photos show the company’s own projects.
The editing system took the most work. The manager wanted to be able to add complete articles with photos himself and asked whether he should use Visual Studio or Expression Web. He did not need to. He logs in at lichtgitter.bg/redakcia using a link sent by email, with no password to remember. The website opens in editing mode: click any text and type directly into it, click “Change photo” on any image, and “Save” saves the page. If something goes wrong, “Restore previous” brings back the last saved version. From “Articles”, he can write a new article with a title, text and photos and publish it with one click.
Everything runs on the hosting the company was already paying for. There is no WordPress to update and no monthly fee payable to us. The website remains fast static HTML, while the editor preserves the titles, Google descriptions and structured data with every change.
It took 10 days from the demo to the launch of lichtgitter.bg, in October 2026. After launch, we also added free redirects for 63 old URLs, a “Questions and answers” section, and a company description for Google and AI assistants. Google’s speed score reached 98 out of 100.