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Run · Fox Lake, IL 60020Fox Lake web design, built for lake season.
Fast, phone-first websites for Fox Lake contractors, marinas, shops and restaurants.
Fox Lake, from the water in.
Lake County’s visitor bureau calls Fox Lake the Heart of the Chain O’Lakes, and the village sits on Pistakee, Nippersink and Fox lakes. People come for the boating, the fishing and the restaurants on the water, then ask their phones for everything else. We build websites for the contractors, marinas, shops and restaurants who want to be the one that phone finds, and for the crews that keep the lake homes in shape.
- From our base
- Round Lake to Fox LakeAbout 4.6 miles as the crow flies; Route 134 links the two
- On the water
- 15 connected lakesThe Chain O’Lakes, per the Fox Waterway Agency
- Main corridors
- Route 12 and Grand AvenueDowntown, the Metra station and the Route 12 bridge
- Where sales come from
- Marinas and car dealersMuch of the village’s retail sales, per its 2015 planning report
On the phone: Ridgeline Carpentry, one of our demo builds. A made-up deck and porch builder, shown for the standard, not as a Fox Lake client.
The lake sets the calendar. Your site has to keep up.
The 2020 census counted 10,978 people in Fox Lake. In summer the lakes bring visitors too; the county’s visitor bureau pitches Fox Lake as an hour from Chicago, Milwaukee or Rockford. Two crowds, two kinds of search, one town name.
Boaters search from the dock
Someone tying up for lunch, or pulling the boat out at the end of the day, searches for food, bait or a mechanic right where they are. They pick from the map in seconds. The business with hours, photos and a directions button that works gets them. A slow page gets skipped.
Big-ticket buyers look you up first
The village’s own planning report credits its marinas and car dealerships with much of Fox Lake’s retail sales. Someone spending that kind of money checks you out before they call. So does the owner who needs that boat repaired, stored or cleaned up next season.
Lake homes have their own list
Decks, roofs, lawns that run to the water, trees over the house. A homeowner on Pistakee or Nippersink wants to see work that looks like their place: lakefront jobs, the lake named, photos from a yard like theirs.
The season starts all at once
The town’s calendar runs from the Friday Night Concert Series in summer to Celebrate Fox Lake, the Pumpkin Jubilee and the Festival of Lights. Lake work books up just as fast. Hours, offers and a seasonal page should be ready before the boats go in, not after.
Fox Lake trades we build for, on the shore and off it.
Homes on the water and the streets behind them need the same upkeep, plus a few jobs only the lake creates. These trades each have their own page.
Roofers
Lakefront roofs take the wind straight off the water. Show jobs on the Chain, name the lake, and make the storm page easy to find.
Roofing website design →Lawn and landscape
Shoreline plantings, lawns that run down to the water and weekly routes around the lakes. Show the lake lots you already keep.
Landscaping website design →Pressure washing
Decks, piers, siding and boathouses all need cleaning by the water. Before-and-after photos sell this work better than any paragraph.
Pressure washing website design →Tree service
Big trees over lake houses, close to the roof and the water. Show your equipment, your insurance and how you work near a house.
Tree service website design →A marina, a bait shop or a restaurant on the water? We build for you too. See every trade we build for.
Quick to start, quicker to judge.
You will know within a few days whether we are the right fit, because you will be looking at your own homepage.
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Send the basics
Name, business, number. We respond within one business day and ask what a good week looks like for you.
Within one business day -
Look at your mockup
Your homepage, designed for a phone first, is ready within 3 days. Open it on your own phone, where your customers will.
Ready within 3 days -
Go live
Most storefronts only need The Attack Line, live in about a week. Working Fire runs about two weeks; Second Alarm and Task Force about three.
One to three weeks -
Beat the season
Opening before the boats go in? Pay the rush fee and it goes live in 24–72 hours.
Rush: 24–72 hours
Know the number before we roll.
Every project starts with a free mockup, and every build splits 50/50 — half down to start, half to launch. Nothing hourly, nothing hidden.
Which one fits?
Fox Lake businesses tend to split two ways: serving the people who come for the water, or working on the homes along it. Here is where each usually starts.
The Attack Line
One fast page with hours, menu or services, photos, directions and one-tap calling. Includes Google Business Profile setup, which is where visitors find you.
See The Attack Line →Working Fire
Up to five pages: your services, the lakes and towns you cover, and a gallery of jobs a neighbor on the water might recognize.
See Working Fire →Running Calls
Monthly Google profile posts, review requests and a new seasonal page each quarter, timed to your busy stretch.
See Running Calls →Already have a site that ranks? Second Alarm rebuilds it and forwards every old page so you keep your place. Any build can go out as a rush in 24–72 hours, for an extra fee.
Every build ships with click-to-call, tap-to-text, a lead form that never loses a lead, spam protection, English and Spanish, and call tracking events. Standard on every tier — not upsells.
First, get it built.
One-time builds. Every one splits 50/50 — half down to start, half to launch.
The Attack Line
Single-page site + privacy & terms · $500 to start, $500 at launch
- Custom one-page website, plus your privacy & terms pages
- Mobile-first, fast-loading build
- Contact form + click-to-call
- Job photo gallery
- Google Business Profile setup
- Rush launch in 24–72 hours available, for an extra fee
- 1 round of revisions · live in about a week
Working Fire
Up to 5 pages · $1,250 to start, $1,250 at launch
- Everything in The Attack Line
- Up to 5 custom pages
- Job photo gallery built to sell work
- Service & service-area pages for local search
- 30 days of free post-launch edits
- 2 rounds of revisions · live in about two weeks
Second Alarm
8–10 pages · $2,250 to start, $2,250 at launch
- Everything in Working Fire, expanded to 8–10 pages
- Your Google rankings come with you — every old URL mapped and redirected, nothing 404s
- Storm damage & insurance claim page, built before the season hits
- Search Console set up with a before-and-after baseline, so you can see it held
- Google Business Profile optimized, not just switched on
- Schema markup and local SEO foundation
- A quote request form that gets the job details up front
- Search & Rescue migration included free
- 3 rounds of revisions · live in about three weeks
Search & Rescue
Already have a website? We don’t move your domain, and you keep your search history. Every old page forwards to the right place, so nothing 404s and nothing gets lost — your rankings come with you.
Included free inside Second AlarmThen keep it working.
Month-to-month. No contract, cancel anytime, and you own your site either way.
Standing Watch
Keeps your site running
- Fast, secure hosting + SSL
- Daily backups & security updates
- Content edits done for you — a couple of changes a month
- Uptime monitoring 24/7
- Cancel anytime — you own your site
Running Calls
Gets you found
- Everything in Standing Watch
- Google Business Profile posts every month — your jobs in front of local searchers
- Review requests set up, and every review answered
- Text us job photos — we get them on your site and your profile
- A new seasonal service page each quarter, timed to your busy season
- Quarterly listing check across Google, BBB, Angi and Yelp so your details still match
- Monthly numbers from Google — calls, direction requests, clicks, and the searches that found you
Selling a product, not a service?
Same flat pricing, built for the brands our contractors buy from. A real store, and the sheets a buyer asks for.
Task Force
Store build · $1,750 to start, $1,750 at launch
- Everything in Working Fire, expanded for commerce
- A real store — pack sizes, options and a cart that works on a phone
- Product pages built to sell, with your photos cleaned up and matched
- Google Merchant Center set up, so your products show up in Google Shopping
- A retailer & investor page, for when a buyer asks what you’ve got
- Sell sheet and spec sheet, print-ready for the meeting
- Shipping, returns, privacy and terms pages drafted for you
- 2 rounds of revisions · live in about three weeks
Supply Line
Introductory price, going up to $199. Start now and keep $149.
Keeps the product moving
- Everything in Standing Watch
- Product and pack updates — new photos, prices, specs
- New products added to your store and Google Merchant Center as you launch them
- Review requests to your buyers, and every review answered
- Sell sheet and retailer page kept current as UPCs, case packs and ratings firm up
- Monthly numbers — what sold, what pages drove it, where buyers came from
- Cancel anytime — you own your site
Prices are in U.S. dollars and exclude any applicable taxes, domain registration, and third-party service fees. The free mockup is genuinely free with no obligation to buy; it stays our property unless you hire us and pay in full. Full details in our Terms of Service.
Fox Lake owners ask. We answer straight.
We run a restaurant or a shop on the water, not a contracting business. Do you build for us?
Most of our business comes between spring and fall. Is a website still worth it?
Do you set up the Google map listing too?
We work all around the Chain, in Lake and McHenry counties. Is that a problem?
What do we need to send you?
Around the Chain, and east of it.
Plenty of Fox Lake businesses work the towns nearby. These have their own page.
See your Fox Lake site on your own phone, free.
Tell us what you sell or what you fix. We design a real homepage, send you the link, and you judge it where your customers will: on a phone.
Lake season about to start? Say so in the form and we will tell you what can be live in time.
Rather talk? Call or text (224) 225-9268.