Web design for Charleston, IL — the county seat deserves better websites.
Home to EIU and the Coles County courthouse, Charleston runs on restaurants, rentals, professional services, and the businesses students and families rely on. I build custom sites for all of them.
Forty minutes down the road — not a support queue.
Charleston's market is unusual for a town its size: a university brings thousands of students who search for everything on their phones, and the county-seat economy brings law offices, realtors, landlords, and services that need to look credible online. In both cases the bar is the same — if your site is slow or looks ten years old, people bounce before they ever call.
I build custom websites from scratch — no templates, no page builders — that load instantly and are structured to rank for Charleston and Coles County searches. I'm in Effingham, forty minutes down the road, and you deal with me directly from first email to launch and beyond.
Websites & services for Charleston businesses
Every option is custom-coded, quoted upfront, and comes with the same promise: the site is yours.
The Hands-Off Website
- Design, build, hosting & security — all handled
- Every update made for you
- You own the site
Custom Website Builds
- Hand-coded WordPress — no page builders
- You own and manage it yourself
- Built around your business, not a template
Online Stores
- WooCommerce product pages & checkout
- Payments & shipping wired correctly
- The follow-through most store builds skip
Local SEO & Google Setup
- Show up when Charleston searches for what you do
- Google Business Profile set up right
- Honest about what ranking takes — no promises
Work from right around Charleston
Weber's Clothing — Effingham
A family clothing store forty minutes down the road that was renting a slow Hibu template. I rebuilt it custom — it now scores a perfect 100 on Google PageSpeed, and the family owns every line of it.
Wolke Nursery — Sigel, IL
A wholesale nursery just north of Effingham running on a custom DietzenDev build — browse the case study.
Questions from Charleston businesses
I run rentals / student housing. What would a site do for me?
List your properties with real photos, answer the questions every tenant emails you anyway, and rank when students search "apartments Charleston IL". I can also add simple application or contact flows so inquiries arrive organized instead of as phone tag.
Do you build for restaurants and bars?
Yes — menu, hours, location, and online ordering integrations if you want them. Restaurant sites need to be fast on phones above all; that's the thing I'm most obsessive about.
What do you charge?
Two honest options: the Hands-Off Website at $299/mo (I handle everything, you own the site), or a custom build from $5,000 that you own and manage. Quoted upfront, no surprises.