Web Design & Development Services in Chicago

I’m John Schuster, a freelance web designer and developer in Chicago: more than 25 years of design and development judgment, with an AI-accelerated workshop behind it. One person handles your project from the first conversation to launch and the years after it.

Build

Website design

Custom design built around your brand and your customers, from the first sketch to a finished, responsive site.

Web development

Custom WordPress and WooCommerce development, integrations, performance work, and fixes for sites that need to do more.

WordPress design

WordPress sites you can edit yourself: custom themes, rebuilds of dated sites, and ongoing maintenance.

E-commerce

Online stores with product pages, checkout, payments, and shipping set up so selling is simple.

Graphic and logo design

Logos, brand graphics, packaging and print pieces that match your website.

Care

Website audit

Every page, form and link checked, plus your Google data, turned into a ranked fix plan.

Site Care

Monthly maintenance: updates tested on a copy first, every page crawled, security checked, plain-English report.

Grow

SEO

Site assessments, keyword research, local search, analytics, and reporting so the right customers find you.

AI search optimization

Show up in Google and in the answers AI assistants give.

Automate

AI assistants and automation

A website assistant that knows your business, instant lead follow-up, and tools that finally talk to each other.

Integrations

Connecting your site to the booking, email, payment, and business tools you already use.

Consult

AI-assisted web development

How the workshop works today, and what it makes possible for a small business.

AI coding consulting

Setup, guardrails and training for teams adopting agentic coding tools.

Websites by industry

• Attorneys and law firms
• Restaurants
• Dentists
• Contractors
• Authors
• Bathroom remodelers
• Real estate
• Nonprofits
• Startups
• Small businesses

How a project works

1. Consultation call — we talk through your business, your customers, and what the site needs to do.
2. Fixed quote — you get the price in writing before anything starts.
3. Contract and deposit — signed online.
4. Kickoff and questionnaire — a kickoff call and a short questionnaire collect your content, logins, and preferences.
5. Design and build on a staging site — you follow progress on a private address.
6. Your approval, then launch — nothing goes live until you sign off.

I aim to deliver within 30 days of the deposit, and all work is warrantied for at least one year.

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