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Websites Built on Strategy and Expertise

We help businesses clarify goals, solve real problems, and build websites that support long-term growth.

We take the time to understand your business, your customers, and your challenges before a single design decision is made. The result is a website that works harder, lasts longer, and supports real business goals.

Custom Solutions for commercial and non-profit organizations

  • Ecommerce Solutions
  • Membership and Protected Content
  • Resource and Data Management
  • Event Management

Managed WordPress hosting that is safe, secure and fast.

  • Daily backups, redundant servers
  • Security software
  • Spam protection
  • Optimized for speed

Many projects begin with consulting before any development begins. We help organizations

  • Clarify requirements and scope of project
  • Identify technical constraints and solutions
  • Avoid costly mistakes

Our Work

Our portfolio showcases custom web design and development work for a wide range of clients, including small and mid-sized businesses, nonprofit organizations, and growing brands across multiple industries. From local service providers and professional firms to community-focused nonprofits and e-commerce businesses, each project is built to match the client’s goals, audience, and long-term growth strategy.

We focus on creating modern, user-friendly websites that are not only visually engaging but also easy to manage, mobile-responsive, and optimized for performance and search visibility.

Our Process

1. Discovery and Consulting

Every project begins with listening and analysis. We work with you to understand your organization, goals, audience, and operational needs before any design or development begins. This phase often includes reviewing existing systems, identifying constraints, and clarifying priorities so decisions are made intentionally—not reactively.

2. Strategy & Planning

With a clear understanding of your needs, we define the structure, functionality, and technical approach for your site. This includes planning content organization, user flows, integrations, and features to ensure the final solution supports both your users and your internal processes.

3. Design & Development

Design and development are handled together, with a focus on usability, performance, and long-term maintainability. Rather than forcing your requirements into a template, we build solutions that fit how your organization operates—whether that includes custom functionality, integrations, or content management workflows.

4. Launch, Support & Maintenance

Launching the site is not the end of the process. We support you through deployment, testing, and post-launch refinement, ensuring everything works as intended. Ongoing support and iteration allow the site to evolve as your organization grows, goals change, or new needs emerge.

WHO WE ARE

Professional, Thoughtful, and Effective Website Development

Based in Crystal Lake, IL, we are a web development team specializing in custom WordPress solutions, creating everything from simple brochure sites to fully-featured, complex websites. Our network includes trusted specialists in graphic design, social media, SEO, and Google Ads, ensuring clients have access to a full suite of digital expertise.

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In working with Baldwin Web Design we were able to create exactly what we wanted with ease. Carla is very easy to work with and will make your ideas come to life. Would recommend to anyone looking for someone to re-design their website!
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Sebert Landscape
November 18, 2025
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Carla did an amazing job with my website! Professional, thorough, and patient - highly recommend!
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Sunshine Giovannetti
January 31, 2025
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I wish I would have known about Baldwin Web Design with my first website! Carla is incredibly knowledgeable, super responsive and very patient with those who are IT-ignorant. I will never use another website design company. This one is the BEST!
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Rick Tabor
January 17, 2025
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Carla was extremely easy to work with and provided the guidance we needed to update our website and bring it to a more professional level. She provided various options and ideas to help us figure out what direction. We are very happy with the end product and would definitely recommend her services.
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Kelly Donnelly
September 5, 2024
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Carla did an amazing job building our website from start to finish.
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mark holian
July 25, 2024
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We hired Carla and team to redesign our website. Carla was great to work with. Process was pretty smooth and website was done on time and as planned. Very happy with the process.
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Premier Lighting
July 11, 2024
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Carla was very helpful in answering all of my questions on my website. She is very professional and patient. I would highly recommend her to anyone who needs a website designer or who needs help with their existing website!! Thank you, Carla!
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Carolyn Runkle
June 11, 2024
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Carla was amazing to work with. After only speaking for moments about my ideas she got it. She was organized and timely. I will continue using her for future projects. I can't say enough about how easy she made the entire process and how beautiful the outcome was. Perfect and beyond my expectations!
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Natalie Spiniolas
October 17, 2023
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Easy to work with and nice design ideas. Will continue to work with Carla and would recommend her to others.
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jminalt
July 10, 2023
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Carla Baldwin contacted our organization a few years ago because our old website was a mess. She let us know she wanted to redesign our outdated website pro bono since we are a nonprofit organization. And WOW, are we thankful she did! Carla not only brought our website up to speed and into this century, but she made it absolutely beautiful and functional too. She also trained our staff on how to update and manage the website. Lastly, she so generously came to our Annual Dinner to unveil our new website to our members! Carla has been so wonderful, professional and effective! We have constant traffic to our website now and receive new members to our organization because of Carla. If you're a nonprofit organization looking to re-do your website, contact Carla Baldwin!
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Environmental Defenders
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Frequently Asked Questions

Many people find choosing a domain name a daunting task. Not only do you have to come up with the right one, but with more than 350 million domain names already registered, finding one that’s not already taken can be a challenge. Your domain name is someone’s pathway to you and your business, so it’s important that it’s unique, true to your business, and easy to read.  Read this article for instructions and our recommended registrars.

 

You’re welcome to provide all of your own content, or we can create it for you. Our team can write professional copy tailored to your business, with a focus on SEO effectiveness. If you don’t have images, we can connect you with a professional photographer or source high-quality stock photos to ensure your site looks polished and engaging.

Yes. All of our websites are built with search-friendly best practices. For ongoing SEO and marketing, we connect clients with our trusted partners.

We provide tailored WordPress solutions. We use a well supported theme as a foundation then customize it to fit your brand and functionality requirements.

A big YES! We build our sites in WordPress, a content management system (CMS). Once the site is built, we train you how to manage your content on your own. This can include products in your ecommerce store, your blog and content in your pages. Once you get started you will find it is very easy and intuitive. If at any time you would rather not update it yourself, we can take care of it for you.

Depending on the site of your site it can take anywhere from 4 weeks on up. If we are building a 5 page brochure site and you have all your content ready to go it can go a lot faster. Keep in mind we always have a few sites in the queue so let us know as soon as possible if you have a launch date in mind.

Depending on how old it is and what theme it is built in, we can do a design refresh. This can be more cost effective than a total redesign. A lot of times the theme is outdated, or no longer supported, and a total redesign is needed.

Your site most likely needs a design refresh every two to three years. You may not need a complete overhaul, but updating just parts of the site can make a big difference. After 5 years, sites start to look very dated and if it has been closer to 10 years, sweetie, you need a redesign!

Everything we build is custom so before we start we go through your business processes and decide what goes in the site and how it will work. We then provide you with a detailed proposal so there are no surprises when it comes to cost and timeline. We always take in consideration your budget and will make recommendations for the amount of content and functionality. Read this article for more on the real cost of website design.

SEO, or “Search Engine Optimization”, is the process of improving your site to increase its visibility when people search for products or services related to your business in Google, and other search engines. The better visibility your pages have in search results, the more likely you are to garner attention and attract prospective and existing customers to your business.

Google and the other search engines crawl, or use software to look at your site and add them to their databases. They then use algorithms to decide the relevance of your site compared to other sites when a word or phrase is searched on.

SEO is a very broad term and can be very complicated. We build our sites with a solid foundation for SEO. If needed we can then recommend strategies to improve rankings.

SEO is only one of the many components of Digital Marketing and  having a successful website. Learn more here.

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