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Run · Gurnee, IL 60031Gurnee web design, built for the phone.
Fast, phone-first websites for Gurnee contractors, shops and restaurants.
Gurnee, from the road in.
The village says shopping and entertainment bring 23 million visitors to Gurnee every year. When one of them needs lunch, a tire or a plumber, they ask their phone. We build websites for the contractors, shops and restaurants who want to be the one that phone finds, and for the residents in the subdivisions behind Grand Avenue.
- From our base
- Round Lake to GurneeAbout 10 miles as the crow flies
- Main corridor
- Grand Avenue (Route 132)The road to Gurnee Mills and Six Flags
- Visitors
- 23 million a yearVillage of Gurnee figure
- How they arrive
- I-94 splits the villageNon-tolled interchanges, per the village
On the phone: Cornerstone Home Services, one of our demo builds. A made-up company, shown for the phone-first standard, not as a Gurnee client.
There are two Gurnees. Your site has to work in both.
One is Grand Avenue, the mall, the parks and the hotels. The other is the subdivisions where 30,706 people live. Different customers, different searches, same town name.
Visitors decide in the parking lot
Someone leaving Gurnee Mills or a hotel on Grand Avenue searches for lunch, a tire shop or a phone repair right where they stand. 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.
The town’s name is taken
Gurnee’s best-known names are Six Flags Great America and Gurnee Mills, and they soak up much of the attention the word Gurnee gets online. A local roofer or landscaper has to give Google more to go on: the services, the neighborhoods by name, the jobs done there.
Residents live in named subdivisions
Brookhaven, Cobble Creek, Country Trails, Fields of Gurnee: the village lists dozens. A homeowner who sees their own subdivision named on your site, next to a photo of a job down the street, stops comparing.
The calendar swings hard
Water parks in summer, Fright Fest from September into November, holiday events at Gurnee Mills to close the year. If your traffic follows those seasons, your site should too: hours, offers and a seasonal page that changes when the town does.
Gurnee trades we build for, on the residential side.
Behind the attractions are streets of family homes that need roofs, driveways and yards. These trades each have their own page.
Roofers
Whole subdivisions went up at the same time, so their roofs wear out together. Name the subdivision and show a job in it.
Roofing website design →Driveways and patios
Salt and freeze-thaw are hard on driveways this close to the Wisconsin line. A site that explains replacement versus repair earns the call.
Concrete website design →Lawn and landscape
Weekly mowing and seasonal cleanups are route work. The site should book the street next door to the one you already mow.
Landscaping website design →Excavation and grading
Drainage fixes, footings for additions and commercial pads along the corridors. Show your equipment and the size of job you take.
Excavation website design →A restaurant, an auto shop or a store near Grand Avenue? 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 summer or the holidays? 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?
Gurnee businesses split two ways: selling to visitors, or serving the homes. 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 Gurnee neighborhoods you work in, and a gallery of jobs a neighbor 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.
Gurnee owners ask. We answer straight.
We are a restaurant, not a contractor. Do you build for us?
Can the site change with the seasons?
Do you set up the Google map listing too?
We work in Waukegan, Wadsworth and Park City as well. Is that a problem?
What do we need to send you?
West of I-94, too.
Plenty of Gurnee businesses serve the towns to the west. These have their own page.
See your Gurnee 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.
Busy 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.