What Is Included
Every Starter Site ships with a professional, complete foundation:
- Five custom-designed pages. Home, About, Services, Contact, and one additional page you choose: FAQ, portfolio, menu, testimonials, or whatever your business needs most.
- Custom design. Built around your brand. Your colors, your images, your voice. Not a template with your logo swapped in.
- Working contact form. Tested and confirmed delivering messages to your inbox before launch. Not just a form field that looks functional.
- Mobile-responsive layout. Built mobile-first. Works correctly on iPhone, Android, tablets, and desktop. Over 60 percent of searches in Chicago happen on mobile devices.
- SEO foundation. Proper title tags, meta descriptions, heading structure, image alt text, XML sitemap, and robots.txt. The technical foundation that makes local search ranking possible.
- Performance optimization. Next.js server-side rendering, optimized images, minimal JavaScript. Google PageSpeed score of 90 or above out of the box.
- SSL certificate. HTTPS enabled from launch. Required by Google for ranking and required by customers for trust.
- Analytics integration. Google Analytics or Plausible connected so you can see who is visiting and where they come from.
- Hosting guidance. We deploy and walk you through hosting so you understand what you are paying for.
- Source code ownership. The design, the code, the content. All yours. No vendor lock-in.
Who the Starter Site Is Built For in Logan Square
The Starter Site fits the Logan Square business that needs to be online fast, without the overhead of a custom project.
New restaurants and food businesses. Opening on Milwaukee Avenue, launching a catering operation, or starting a food brand that needs a home base before you pitch your first wholesale account. You need a menu, your story, your contact information, and a link you can share with confidence.
Contractors and trades. Electricians, plumbers, HVAC companies, and carpenters working Logan Square and the Northwest Side. You land jobs through referrals and need a site that looks legitimate when the referral searches your name before calling. Fast-loading, mobile-ready, with a clear service area and a simple way to request a quote.
Creative professionals. Photographers, designers, videographers, and illustrators in the Logan Square creative community. Five pages is the right size for a portfolio, bio, services, and contact. The Starter Site loads fast, looks sharp, and represents your work without competing with it.
Fitness and wellness practitioners. Yoga instructors, personal trainers, massage therapists, and wellness coaches opening practices in the neighborhood. You need class schedules or service descriptions, your story, pricing, and a way for people to reach you or book.
Professional services. Therapists, accountants, consultants, and coaches opening practices in Logan Square. You need credibility online before the first client walks through the door. Three days from brief to launch means your site is ready before your first customer arrives.
New businesses of any kind. Anyone opening a business in Logan Square who needs a professional presence immediately. Whether you are opening a coffee shop on California Avenue or starting a consulting practice from your apartment, three days is the right timeline for the neighborhood's pace.
What to Expect
Day 1: Discovery and Design. You fill out the intake form covering your business, your audience, your preferences, and your content. We pull together a design direction and build out the page structure. If you have a logo, brand colors, and photos ready, we start designing immediately. By end of Day 1, design direction is in progress.
Day 2: Build and Refine. We build all five pages, integrate the contact form, optimize images, configure SEO elements, and connect analytics. You receive a preview link to review. We build in a revision window for any adjustments before launch.
Day 3: Launch. We finalize revisions, run performance and mobile testing, configure your domain, enable SSL, and push the site live. We verify that the contact form delivers correctly, analytics are tracking, and the site loads fast on mobile. You get a walkthrough of how to request changes going forward.
