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Award-Winning Web Design & Development Company In Chicago

Simpalm has been recognized as one of the top web design and development companies in Chicago, ensuring your business goals are being met with high ROI. For more than 14 years, we have been offering a full suite of web design and development services while catering to your unique and custom needs. Irrespective of whether you are building a website or developing a full scale web solution, we can help you in both. We have a strong team to approach your project with a strong & effective plan of action.

While creating your web solution, we make sure to factor brand communication as the top-most priority. This will ensure that your visitors find it easy to learn about your offerings and understand your brand mission. For designing your website, we use top CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal to build and deploy your website faster and in a cost-effective manner. We just don’t stop at designing websites; we can also do full-stack development for your business if you need an accompanying web application for your audience. Simpalm extends its service outreach to businesses of all types and sizes, including startups, established enterprises, non-profits, and more.

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Our Web Design Services In Chicago.

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Branding & Design

We work towards building you a recognizable and engaging online identity by adding brand strategy to your website design, such as implementing consistent visuals, colors, voice, UX, and messaging.

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CMS Based Development

We make use of top CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal for crafting fast, efficient, and high-performance websites, while ensuring cost-effective development.

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Website Redesign/Migration

Whether you want to revamp your existing website with a new look or move it to a new platform, domain, or server, Simpalm is your one-stop hub for it! You can also combine both of these services to improve overall performance, SEO, and functionality of your website.

SEO

SEO/AEO Optimization

We will be optimizing your website for both SEO and AEO parameters, ensuring it ranks higher in the Google SERPs and becomes authoritative for the voice, AI, and featured snippets. Our focus on both of these aspects will ensure that your website isn’t just more visible but also offers instant value.

CMS Development

Hosting Services

Simpalm provides full hosting services for your web solution. We use hosting services like WPengine, Pantheon, Digital ocean to provide high uptime hosting solution.

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Maintenance + Ongoing Support

We will make sure your website continues to run smoothly without performance hiccups or crashes. Our maintenance and ongoing support team will be readily available to fix potential issues, introduce

Our Web Development Services In Chicago.

Many times, you need to build a web application or web portal, along with your website, and Simpalm has full-stack web development capabilities as well. We have 15+ years of expertise in developing custom web solutions that can improve operational efficiency, monetization, workflow optimization and AI functionality.

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Web App and Portal Development

Let our proficient team build you a feature-backed and interactive web app for your specific business functions, or create a web portal for your internal business applications. We have full expertise in Python, ReactJS, and NodeJS to develop a scalable web solution. At Simpalm, we can help you build something beyond just a static website to run your business on.

Reach a Wider Audience

E-Commerce Website Development

Start your E-commerce business with a sophisticated website built with all exclusive features and functionalities. Whether you want a Shopify or WooCommerce-based web, or a custom one, Simpalm can help you out with both.

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Backend Development

We strive to offer you reliable backend development services, with a core focus on building server-side infrastructure, databases, and logic for powering your web solution. We also leverage the potential of AWS, Azure, and other such platforms for enabling your web backend with compute storage, AI/ML, and networking capabilities.

Our Tech Stack For
Web Design & Development in Chicago

Our tech stack is WordPress, Drupal for CMS based website development, and ReactJS, NodeJS, Python, Laravel for custom web development. We use AWS, Azure for hosting services.

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Websites Designed for Engagement
and Lead Conversion .

At Simpalm, we aim to drive our focus on not just building you a brand website, but also to ensure it showcases clear value and drives more lead conversions. We will conduct research on your targeted customers, talk to your sales and marketing team to understand what drives the lead conversion, and then create the design that appeals to your customers. We work in collaboration with your team to craft a message, smart CTA positionings, brand personalization, and accessible customer support channels that would keep your visitors longer on the site and compel them to submit forms to contact you.

We Create Flawless
Mobile Experience!

You cannot expect to beat the competition with a website that doesn’t load responsively on mobile devices. Simpalm, being the best web design company in Chicago, has adopted mobile-first UI/UX design implementations. It means we ensure that the site layout, media elements, speed, and navigation are all optimized for smaller screens.

With a mobile-responsive web Google tends to rank it higher on the SERPs. So, wait no more, and let Simpalm help you build the perfect website design, guaranteeing a seamless mobile experience for the users.

Responsive design
CMS

Research-First Web
Design Strategy.

At Simpalm, we adopt a research-first web design strategy by facilitating user-intent mapping, competitor benchmarking, and accessibility risk assessment.

We strive to visualize the goals behind the users’ actions or associated search queries, and then align them with the site design, functionality, and content.

We Communicate
Your Message and Brand.

We believe every brand has a vision to adapt and a message to pass on to its target audience. Our team is proficient in carrying out that message through an appealing, responsive, and aesthetic web design.

At Simpalm, we follow an effective web development methodology built with a strategic and user-centric approach. In the process, we keep in mind the tone of the content, visual identity, and user experience.

With your brand website conveying the message, mission, values, and vision, you will be able to attain the trust of your customers and achieve higher retention rates.

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AI, & AEO Ready Web Design.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for your web design ensures your site content is pulled into the AI summaries, and not just the usual search results.

We will be adding structured data to ensure the site is ready for AI crawlers and integrating schema markup to provide AI with answers about what your site and its content are about.

Following that, we also integrate analytics tools alongside your website for you to track the AI referral traffic.

Analytics-Driven
Development to
Measure the Success.

At Simpalm, we ensure your web is built to drive results, and our analytics-driven approach helps you attain that. We will be analyzing the user behavior data, such as their clicking patterns, site paths and conversions, for making effective decisions on designing and developing your website.

Furthermore, we will also be using heatmaps, funnels, and session recordings to determine how users navigate through a site, feel stuck at a point, or the type of content they engage with. This helps us pinpoint the right ideas to improve your site design and functionalities based on the data.

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Let Your Team
Seamlessly Manage
Your Site Content.

As part of our web development services is to configure a robust CMS for your site. We make sure that the CMS we integrate aligns with the technical proficiency of your team and their skill levels.

If required, we can also train your in-house team on easily managing the CMS platform and optimizing the site content to keep it updated over time.

Beyond training, we will also be providing clear documentation and video tutorials to help your team access it as a resource while making site updates.

Even with your team’s technical expertise in handling the CMS of your website, we will still be offering you complete assistance as part of our post-launch maintenance and support services.

Web Development that Makes Life Easier for You
And Your Customers?

Simpalm is among very few established companies in Chicago that provides end-to-end web development, in addition to web design services. That means, we can build a functional web portal, application, or E-commerce solution, along with your website, to make life easier for your customers and your staff.

Secured and Custom Web

We help clients build secure and centralized platforms for specific user groups such as customers, employees, business partners, and others. These portals will provide users with aggregated information or services from diverse sources, presented in a personalized and unified manner.

Creating Database-Driven Web Solution

If you need a web that will rely strongly on a backend database for storing, managing, and retrieving dynamic data or content, we have an adequate service solution for the same. We build database-driven web solutions that can pull out information from a connected database and generate the pages in real-time.

How Simpalm’s Web Design and Development
Services Benefit Your Business in Chicago?

Establish Brand

Build yourself a robust web presence, backed by our professional website design and development services. We aim at building your brand identity while ensuring the site is well-designed to boost trust & credibility among users.

Drive Organic Traffic

We implement a SEO-friendly website design to boost your search engine rankings and draw the attention of organic traffic. This way, your site will have more visitors who are interested in your products or services. Thus, it will guarantee long-term success and online leadership.

Boost Sales & Revenue

Mobile-optimization, simplified navigation, and responsiveness are the traits that we adopt for ensuring users go all the way through the inquiry or buying process on your website. Thus, it will eventually boost your overall sales and revenue.

Time & Cost Efficiency

We follow an agile development approach, ensuring your website is built and ready for launch within the decided timeframe. Even with the strict deadlines, we ensure on-time project completion while maintaining the cost-effectiveness quotient.

Improve Productivity

Our web experts focus on tailoring consistent design, user engagement, easy navigation, and brand elements for your website, guaranteeing users’ understanding of your products or service offerings.

Strengthen Security

Your website will be built with adherence to all the latest security standards, ensuring it is protected from data breaches and cyber threats. Strengthened security will boost your customers’ trust and make your brand more credible.

Engage your customer by functionality

Simpalm can develop functional components in your web solution such as donation, payment, member portal, reports, analytics, forms, submitting reports and data to engage them further. We have full scale web development capabilities.

Web Support After
Launch
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Web Support After Launch

At Simpalm, we offer post-launch web support services to ensure it runs smoothly, delivers excellent UX, and also engages your users. As part of our efforts to support your web after the launch, we offer:

  • iconRun site audits to identify any broken links, duplicate content, or other such issues and fix them.
  • iconBoost your site speed by identifying the affected areas of your website that load slowly and fixing them.
  • iconImplement A/B testing of all the website components, such as page headlines, visual elements, colours of CTA buttons, and more.
  • iconIntegrate new features based on user demand or feedback, keeping your site relevant for your target audience.
 

Our Chicago Web Design and Development Process

1. Discovery

Our team at Simpalm will understand your requirements and expectations for the project. Following that, we will be documenting those details together to prepare a plan of action for your web development project. We will also be brainstorming with all the project stakeholders to decide on custom integrations to make your website or web app stand out.

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Fueling Your Web Growth Loved by Clients in Chicago.

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Simpalm is one of the leading web design and development companies in Chicago that strengthens your brand with high-end, responsive design that looks perfect on all device form factors – laptops, phones, and tablets. We strive to create unique digital products that elevate your brand while also providing high-quality, maintainable code.

One thing that makes us better than the other service providers in the industry is that Simpalm considers extensibility when your web solution – over time, it’s cost-effective to extend and enhance your web without having to perform a redesign. Simpalm’s secret sauce is its confluence of business acumen, expertise in web design services, and technical mastery.

We achieve stellar results by listening closely to our customers, building functional, beautiful designs, and choosing the most suitable tools and technologies for the tasks at hand. Want to know more about our Chicago web design services? Feel free to reach out!.

  • iconWe understand the consumer behavior insights in Chicago and create web solutions that can support fast browsing, mobile-heavy usage, and local search intent.
  • iconOur services cater to the popular startup hubs in the neighborhood of Chicago, such as the Loop, the West Loop, and River North.
  • iconOur team prioritizes the local business expectations while keeping in mind the local SEO aspects while curating a website or web app.

We have in-depth insight into Chicago’s top-performing industries and the intensity of digital competition that can help you build a stand-out web solution.

What Our Clients Say About Us.

 

Our Web Design is Built for Accessibility,
Compliance & RFP Success
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Our web design and development solutions are perfect for enterprises, nonprofits, and government contractors, considering the level of compliance we offer:

Fixed cost

WCAG 2.2 AA

Hourly

ADA Compliance

Dedicated Team

Section 508

Staff Augmentation

Illinois-specific IITAA

SaaS Partnership

RFP-ready language & documentation support

SaaS Partnership

Accessibility reports and audits

SaaS Partnership

PCI and HIPAA-compliant web development

Why Choose Simpalm for Web Development in Chicago?

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  • icon We have a Chicago-based team that adheres to the US-timezone workflow, ensuring quick turnaround for your web development projects.
  • icon Our expertise extends across multiple industries in Chicago, including logistics, FinTech, healthcare, manufacturing, SaaS, and others.
  • icon Simpalm emphasizes a result-driven approach, combining design, performance, accessibility, and SEO.
  • icon We foster complete transparency of our services with your in-house team.
  • icon In addition to web design, we have the capability to build functional web solutions like web portals, web apps, and backend databases. Many clients who want custom web web development in Chicago love to hire us.
 

Who Do We Work For.

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Startups

Our company delivers the best web solutions that cater to startups. Whether you need a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) to test your idea or a full-scale solution, we ensure that it’s a smooth and efficient development process.

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Established Companies

We make easy-to-use and responsive websites for non-profit organizations that reflect their objectives. We are skilled in simplifying technical concepts for non-technical audiences so that the information is clear and effective.

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Nonprofits

We have a rich history partnering with Nonprofits, bringing technical expertise to the critical missions of Nonprofits. Our analysts and managers have expertise explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

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Government

The government industry receives not only the most technologically advanced services but also the most cost-effective, secure, and easy-to-maintain web solutions.

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Health and Fitness

Our experience in digital health solutions and HIPAA-compliant web development technology allows us to provide top-level security and an unfussy user experience to the healthcare and fitness industries.

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Fintech

We develop highly secure, responsive, and user-centered websites for the Fintech industry. The first priority in this field is the user experience and secure payment gateway integration.

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Logistics and Transportation

We are aware of the complex server-side architecture and the use of the required logistics and transportation applications. In addition, our solutions are indeed for high-performance computing which offers both reliability and efficiency.

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Emerging Tech

Simpalm uses the latest technology like AI, Machine Learning, and Virtual Reality in practical and user-friendly applications. Consequently, we make businesses know about what is innovation.

Let’s Build Your Chicago
Web Solution!

Partnering with Simpalm ensures you are working with a top-rated web agency in Chicago and are building a web solution that can cater to quality traffic, valuable leads, and improved conversions.

Frequently Asked Questions.

It varies from project to project. The design phase usually takes 3–4 weeks if the website is not overly complex and requires minimal revisions. The development phase can take an additional 4–8 weeks, depending on the number of pages and special features. Simpalm always strives to meet your timeline.
When we build websites, we use WordPress, Drupal for web design. If we do a web development project, then we use ReactJs, NodeJs, Python, PHP and .Net.
Yes. We design fully responsive websites that look appealing across all devices. We leverage HTML5, Bootstrap, and CSS3 to ensure a seamless mobile experience.
Yes. Yes, we do provide custom web development services in Chicago, ensuring your business-specific requirements are addressed using modern technologies.
Simpalm is undoubtedly one of the most reliable web development companies in Chicago, as it works with a team of experienced developers, designers, and testers. The team is proficient in using advanced technologies and agile development approaches for tailoring your custom web development. Simpalm also assigns a dedicated project manager for every project, ensuring complete transparency with clients.
All the websites we design and develop are SEO-friendly and follow essential search engine guidelines. We also recommend SEO audits, as search engines frequently update their algorithms and ranking criteria.
Simpalm works with startups, large corporations, government agencies, and nonprofits. With over 12 years of experience, we have strong domain knowledge across industries such as technology, government, food, travel, healthcare, and finance.
Yes, we offer post-launch maintenance and support services after your web solution goes live. Our team regularly audits the website for bugs, errors, performance issues, and feature improvements. We also optimize the website to maintain fast load speeds and strong Google SERP rankings.
Yes. We offer website revamp solutions while preserving the brand essence of your existing website. Our experts identify and fix performance, feature, and functionality issues and suggest practical improvements to enhance responsiveness, performance, and search engine rankings.
A simple website typically costs between $5,000 and $10,000, a mid-sized website ranges from $10,000 to $30,000, and larger, more complex websites can cost between $30,000 and $70,000.
Yes, we work with Chicago-based businesses through in-person collaboration, remote engagement, or a hybrid model—depending on what best suits the client’s needs.
Yes. Our web design experts build SEO-friendly websites optimized for AI and AEO. This helps your website rank higher in Google SERPs and appear in AI-powered search results.
We use your existing branding, design assets, and content to quickly integrate them into a fully functional website while ensuring responsiveness and easy navigation.