Simple website
$700–$950
1–2 weeks
Up to six pages, mobile-ready, click-to-call, a contact or order request form and your Google profile set up. No extras.
Princeton, Illinois · An Illinois LLC
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 $1,200–$2,400 to build and $39 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. Open them in another tab.
What we build
Four kinds of site, and what each one costs
For a practice or a contracting business, see clinic websites and contractor websites. 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.
Business website
$1.2K–$2.4K
3–5 weeks
Five to ten pages, contact form, maps, the phone number where people can see it. What most local businesses actually need.
Online store
$2.9K–$5.5K
5–8 weeks
Products, payments, shipping and tax. Built so you can add a product without calling anyone.
Membership or community
$5K–$12K
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 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.
You can see who all of us are, how a project actually runs, week by week, and the tools we build and publish in the open, which is what your site gets deployed with. Nearest to home: United Protection Agency in Chicago, and Tombatossals Softworks, our own games and systems studio, right 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 $39/month For a site that already does its job and just has to stay standing.
Growth $69/month For a site that moves with the business: hours, services, offers, staff.
Complete $99/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 →
Just hosting? $15/month, month to month, no term. Server, SSL, daily backups and uptime monitoring; updates and changes are billed when you ask for them.
Where it runs
On servers we know from the inside, in Virginia
Your site runs on Super Awesome Host, in OVHcloud's Virginia data center, with a server firewall, DDoS filtering on the network, daily off-site backups and malware scanning. They are our client too, since 2022: we built their platform, and we say so up front. Hosting is part of the care plan, so there is no second bill and one team answers for all of it.
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
A simple website of up to 6 pages costs $700–$950. In Bureau, LaSalle, Putnam and Marshall counties we do not charge you for it: you pay $39 a month for hosting and maintenance for 12 months ($468 in total), and the site is yours at month 12. We do 10 of those a year. Local non-profits get twelve months free.
- Month 0 Nothing up front The build is not invoiced. You start paying $39 a month when the site goes live.
- Months 1–12 $39 a month, $468 at most Hosting, backups, security and support. Leave early and you pay the months left up to 12, then take the site that same day. Nothing on top.
- Month 13 on The site is yours Want us to keep looking after it? $39 a month, month to month, no new term. If not, take it and pay nothing more.
The program covers the build of a simple website of up to 6 pages, with no extras ($700–$950 on our price list). A larger business website, an online store, several locations or integrations with your software are quoted at our normal prices, in writing, before we start.
What happens if it goes wrong
Six commitments we already keep. Here together, before you have to ask for them.
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The price is agreed in writing
The written proposal we send you carries a fixed price, and it does not move. Anything that expands the scope is quoted before it is done, never as a surprise on the invoice.
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90 days of full warranty
From the day it goes live, and it is three months, not thirty days: a website’s faults do not show up in the first week, they show up when something on the server changes or the form quietly stops delivering. We fix it at no cost, no questions asked.
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Two rounds of design changes included
We design on your brand and your real content, with two rounds of changes inside the price. If a third is needed we tell you what it costs before doing it, never after.
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Everything is yours, and you can leave
The code, the database and the domain. There is no proprietary platform you cannot leave, and we do not charge an exit fee: the domain and your content are yours from day one, and the site is yours once it is paid for.
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No year up front
Maintenance is paid month by month, with a 12-month initial term. We do not ask for twelve months in advance to get started.
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99.9 % uptime, committed
And if it goes down we know before you do: checked every minute, daily backups kept off the server with 30 days of history, and security updates applied by a person. That is in all three care plans, the cheapest one included, and the uptime commitment is written into the terms, with the method used to measure it.
Where your site lives, who can see it, and how it is built
Three questions worth having answered before you sign, not after.
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Where it is hosted: Super Awesome Host, and who they are to us
Your site is hosted by Super Awesome Host, an independent hosting company, in OVHcloud data centers: Virginia for US businesses, Spain or France for European ones, never mixed. We disclose the relationship: they have been our client since 2022, we built their platform and still work on it, so we know the server your site lives on from the inside and talk directly to the people who run it. Hosting is inside the care plan, so there is no second bill. And if you would rather use your own provider, the site is yours and it goes wherever you say.
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Confidentiality, with the right paperwork for the place
We sign a non-disclosure agreement on request, always. If the project handles personal data of people in Europe, we also sign the processor agreement required by article 28 of the GDPR, with the safeguards and the sub-processors in writing. If it handles US health data, the Business Associate Agreement that HIPAA requires, and Super Awesome Host signs it too, so the chain holds all the way down and does not break at the provider. And access is bounded by contract: who can see the data, from where, and under what safeguards, set out in full in our privacy policy.
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Built to standards, not by eye
Built to WCAG 2.1 AA: semantic HTML, navigable end to end with a keyboard, checked contrast, alternative text on images, and animation switched off for anyone who asks for it to be off. Tested in the four browsers, and from the phone upwards rather than the other way round. And the checking is not on trust: every publish runs an automated audit that fails if an image loses its alt text or a navigation loses its name.
Questions owners ask us
How much does a website cost in Bureau County?
A simple website of up to six pages is $700–$950, and a custom business website $1,200–$2,400 to build, plus $39 a month to look after it. A store runs $2.9K–$5.5K. 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, the Quad Cities and the Chicago suburbs. 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 $39 a month. If you only want the site kept online, hosting alone is $15 a month, month to month, with changes billed when you ask for them. A site with nobody maintaining it is not cheaper. It is just unmaintained until the day it matters.
Who owns the website?
You do. The domain and your own text and photos are yours from day one, and the site is yours once it is paid for (on the local program, at month 12). If you ever want to move it, we hand over the files and the domain.
Can I update my hours, menu or job openings myself?
Yes. If you want it, you get a simple, private panel for the things that change often: hours, menu, offers, job openings and photos. You can do it from your phone in a couple of minutes, and whatever you edit yourself never counts against your plan.
Why not just use Squarespace, Wix or Square Online?
Those are good tools if you have the time to build and look after the site yourself. With us, somebody in Princeton writes it for the searches people around here type, keeps it updated, backed up and fast, and answers the phone when you need something. You still own the domain and your content either way.
Do you work with Square, Jobber or my booking system?
Yes. We connect the site to what you already use (Square for orders and gift cards, Jobber for service requests, your booking system or your Google Business Profile), so requests land where you already work.
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 accepted proposal to launch; a store, 5–8. The part that decides the date is usually how fast we get your text and photos, and we plan that with you by email from the start.
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.