Business website
$2K–$4.5K
3–5 weeks
Five to ten pages, contact form, maps, the phone number where people can see it. What most local businesses actually need.
Princeton, Illinois · Since 2010
Web design in Princeton, Illinois
We build and look after business websites for companies across Bureau, LaSalle, Putnam and Marshall counties — from an office on Elm Place, not from a call centre. A custom site runs $2,000–$4,500 to build and $59 a month to keep secure, backed up and up to date.
500 Elm Pl, Princeton, IL 61356 · Mon–Fri, 9:00–18:00 CTThree sites you can open right now
Not mockups. Live sites, with the client's name on them.
What we build
Three kinds of site, and what each one costs
The ranges are the same ones on our pricing page, which also lists the extras, what moves the number and what we never charge for. Where a project lands inside a range depends mostly on how many distinct page designs there are and how much of the content you already have written.
Online store
$4.5K–$9K
5–8 weeks
Products, payments, shipping and tax. Built so you can add a product without calling anyone.
Membership or community
$8K–$20K
6–10 weeks
Accounts, member areas, events, bookings — a site that does something, not just one that says something.
Why hire somebody in Princeton instead of a template
We are actually here
Our US office is at 500 Elm Pl, Princeton, IL 61356. You can call +1 (815) 454-5977 and get somebody in Illinois, not a ticket queue three time zones away.
Built, not assembled
No page-builder plugin stack that breaks on its own two years from now. The site is built to be maintained, and we are the ones maintaining it.
Looked after every month
Updates, backups, malware scanning and a firewall in front. That is the part nobody sells you and the part that decides whether the site is still up in year three.
Findable by your neighbours
Structured data, a real Google-readable address, page speed and titles written for the searches people around here actually type.
Two of those five people are the founders: David Abellán runs the engineering and Ignacio Pineda the business side. You can see who all of us are, and how a project actually runs, week by week. Nearest to home: United Protection Agency in Chicago and Tombatossals Softworks, a studio here in Princeton.
After launch
Somebody has to look after it
A website is not furniture. It runs on software that gets security patches every month, and it sits on the open internet where anything with a keyboard can knock on the door. This is what we do about that, and what it costs.
Essential $59/month For a site that already does its job and just has to stay standing.
Growth $139/month For a site that moves with the business: hours, services, offers, staff.
Complete $259/month For businesses that actually publish: news, campaigns, new pages every month.
paid month by month · 12-month initial term, no year up front See what each plan includes →
Where it runs
On our own infrastructure, not on a shelf somewhere
Sites we build run on servers we manage, behind Cloudflare, with a firewall, DDoS filtering at the edge, daily off-site backups and malware scanning. Hosting is part of the care plan, so there is no second bill and nobody to point at when something breaks.
Service area
Where our Illinois clients are
Four counties, most of them inside forty minutes of the office. If you are further out, that is fine too — half our work is remote — but this is where we can be at your counter on a Tuesday morning.
Bureau County
Princeton, Spring Valley, DePue, Walnut, Buda, Tiskilwa, Wyanet
LaSalle County
Ottawa, Peru, LaSalle, Streator, Mendota, Marseilles, Oglesby
Putnam County
Hennepin, Granville, Standard, McNabb, Magnolia
Marshall County
Lacon, Henry, Wenona, Toluca, Varna
Two local programs worth knowing about
Ten Bureau County businesses a year get the build itself at no cost. Local non-profits get twelve months free.
Questions we get asked on the phone
How much does a website cost in Bureau County?
A custom business website is $2,000–$4,500 to build, plus $59 a month to look after it. A store runs $4.5K–$9K. Those are the same numbers we publish everywhere else on this site — there is no local markup and no local discount hidden behind a call.
Do you work with businesses outside Princeton?
Yes. Most of our Illinois clients are within about forty minutes: Bureau, LaSalle, Putnam and Marshall counties, plus Peoria and the Illinois Valley. We also work remotely with clients in six other countries, so distance is not the constraint — being reachable is, and we are.
What does the monthly fee actually pay for?
Hosting, security updates, off-site backups, malware scanning, uptime monitoring and a set number of content changes a year, depending on the plan. It starts at $59 a month. A site with nobody maintaining it is not cheaper — it is just unmaintained until the day it matters.
Who owns the website?
You do. On the local program the site becomes yours outright at month 12, and we hand over the files and the domain if you ever want to move it somewhere else. We do not hold a site hostage to keep a client.
Do I have to know anything about computers?
No. Most of our local clients run a farm, a shop or a practice, not an IT department. We ask what your business does and who you want to reach; the technical decisions are our job, and we explain the ones that cost you money in plain words before we make them.
How long does it take?
A business website is typically 3–5 weeks from the first call to launch; a store, 5–8. The part that decides the date is usually how fast we get your text and photos, and we will tell you that up front rather than after.
Next step
Ready to build something big?
Pick what you want to build, add a few extras, and watch your plan take shape in real time. No emails, no waiting. Go ahead — play.