HomeServicesWeb Design

Website Design Services by Stateline Tech

Stateline Tech provides website design services for the entire Wisconsin and Illinois state line area. Whether you need a new Shopify, WordPress, or custom website, or want your current site fixed or redesigned, we can build it and launch it. All work is done from our office in McConnell, IL. Remote service available anywhere.

Cities We Provide Web Design Services For

If your town is listed below, Stateline Tech provides web design service to you. Choose your town for local details:

What You Get With a Stateline Tech Website

Mobile-First Website Design

Most of your visitors are on a phone. Every website Stateline Tech builds is designed to load fast and read right on a small screen first.

SEO Built Into Every Website

Page titles, meta descriptions, a sitemap, and structured data are included on day one, so Google knows exactly who you are and where you work. When you want to climb beyond the basics, our local SEO services pick up where the build leaves off.

Websites Designed to Turn Visitors Into Customers

Every page gets a click-to-call phone number, a short contact form, and one clear next step for the visitor.

You Own Your Website

Your domain, your hosting, your content. If we ever part ways, everything goes with you.

Shopify, WordPress and Custom Website Design in Illinois and Wisconsin

Stateline Tech excels in Shopify website creation, and we're just as comfortable handling WordPress, HTML, and other platforms. We build on all of them and will tell you plainly which fits, not which is easier for us.

Shopify Website Design

Shopify is usually the right answer for anyone selling products — it's the platform we run our own stores on, every day, and have for years. A Shopify build from us covers the store design, your products and collections, payments, shipping rates, tax settings, and the SEO basics Shopify doesn't do for you: page titles, descriptions, image alt text, and structured data. Because we also sell on Amazon, Etsy, eBay, and Walmart, we can connect your Shopify store to the marketplaces when you're ready to sell in more places than one.

WordPress Website Design

WordPress suits content-heavy sites — service businesses, professional offices, organizations that publish. We build WordPress sites that stay fast and stay secure, without the plugin sprawl that makes so many small-business WordPress sites slow and hackable. If someone else built your WordPress site and disappeared, we take those over too: updates, backups, security, and the fixes they left behind.

Custom Website Development

A fast custom build makes sense when a template would fight what you're trying to do — a web app, a tool, a site that has to load instantly on rural cell connections. Our own projects, from image-compression tools to favicon generators, are custom-coded from scratch, so this isn't a service we resell. It's what we do for ourselves.

Website Redesign and Website Repair Services

Not every business needs a new website. If your current site is slow, dated, hard to use on a phone, or invisible on Google, a website redesign or repair is often the fastest win — and it starts at $900 instead of $2,900. Common fixes we make: pages that take six seconds to load, images that push the layout around, missing page titles and descriptions, contact forms that quietly stopped working, and mobile layouts that cut off half the text. We'll audit what's there and tell you honestly whether it's worth saving. Sometimes it is. When it isn't, we'll show you exactly why before you spend anything on a rebuild. Selling products? Our ecommerce consulting covers store cleanups too.

Web Design for Farms, Shops and Small-Town Businesses on the Stateline

The stateline area isn't Chicago, and a good website here reflects that. We build websites for dairy and livestock farms that need buyers to find them, crop and grain operations, manufacturing and machine shops that want to show up when purchasing managers search, trades and contractors who lose calls to competitors with better Google presence, shops and restaurants on small-town main streets, professional offices that need to look as sharp online as they are in the room, and makers turning a hobby into an online shop. We grew up around agriculture and industry in this region — the website we build you will speak your customers' language because it's ours too.

Website Design Pricing — How Much Does Stateline Tech Charge?

OfferPrice
New website (up to five pages)from $2,900
Fix or refresh an existing sitefrom $900
Hosting, updates & security (monthly)from $95/mo
Freelance builds around northern Illinois commonly run $2,000 to $8,000 — ours start lower, and we stick around after launch.

Our 5-Step Website Design Process

You never pay before you know exactly what you are getting.

Step 1 — Free consultation. We start with a fifteen-minute call or a coffee. You tell us what the business needs, and we tell you what a website can and cannot fix. There is no cost and no pressure.

Step 2 — Website and competitor review. We do a paid review of your business, your current website if you have one, and what your competitors rank for. The fee is credited toward the build.

Step 3 — Page plan and approval. You approve the page list, the words, and the design direction before anything is built, so there are no surprises at launch.

Step 4 — Build and launch. We complete the design, content, forms, and the full SEO checklist — titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data, and Google Search Console — before we call it live. A standard five-page website typically launches in two to four weeks once we have your content and photos.

Step 5 — Ongoing website maintenance. We host your website and handle updates, security, backups, and small changes from $95 a month — or we hand you the keys and stay a phone call away. Either way, the person who answers the phone is the person who does the work.

Real Websites Stateline Tech Built and Runs

Our own live businesses — the same web design work we sell, bet on with our own income. Click any card to visit the real site, or see all five.

Website Design FAQs

How much does a website cost in Freeport, IL?

A new website from Stateline Tech starts at $2,900 for up to five pages. Fixing or refreshing an existing site starts at $900, and hosting, updates, and security starts at $95 a month. Freelance builds around northern Illinois commonly run $2,000 to $8,000 — ours start lower, and we stick around after launch.

Should my business use Shopify or WordPress?

It depends on what you sell. Shopify is usually the right answer for stores — it's what we run our own businesses on. WordPress suits content-heavy sites. We build on both and will tell you plainly which fits, not which is easier for us.

How long does a website take to build?

A standard five-page site typically goes live in two to four weeks once we have your content and photos. Ecommerce builds take longer depending on how many products you're listing.

I already have a website or an online store. Can you still help?

Yes, and fixing what you already have is often the fastest win. We'll audit what's there and tell you what's worth keeping.

Do you really come to me in person?

Yes. Within about thirty miles of Lena and Freeport there is no travel charge, and we will go farther for the right project.

Can you take over a website someone else built?

Yes, and it happens a lot — a designer builds a site, then stops answering. We'll get you access to your own domain and hosting, document what's there, fix what's broken, and either maintain it or rebuild it depending on what it deserves.

Do you build ecommerce websites?

Yes — online stores are our home turf. We've run our own Shopify stores since 2009 and sell on six platforms daily. See our ecommerce services for store builds, marketplace setups, and store cleanups.

Do you host websites?

Yes. Hosting is included in our monthly care plan at $95 a month, along with updates, security, and backups. Your domain and content stay yours.

Ready to Build a Website That Wins Business?

We'll call you back within the hour during business hours.

Fill out the form or call (608) 214-5158. Every message is read by the person who does the work.

Call (608) 214-5158

📞 Call Stateline Tech — (608) 214-5158