Custom Web Design in Aurora, IL: Hand-Coded Sites & Custom Web Apps
Hand-coded websites and the software behind them, built in Aurora, Illinois & the Fox Valley.
Hunter Creative Media & Design is a development studio in Aurora, IL. We build SaaS platforms, custom web applications, and high-performance websites, from concept to production. We work with clients across Chicago’s western suburbs, from web design in Naperville to Bolingbrook, Plainfield, and Yorkville. Everything we work out along the way gets written down, and the full set lives in our guides for business owners.
See the studio in motion.
A 75-second look at real websites and apps we’ve designed, built, and shipped for businesses across Chicago’s western suburbs.
Featured Project: Heritage Wealth Solutions Custom Website Rebuild
Built for a wealth-management practice that needed to feel as serious as the work.
A complete rebuild on a custom-coded foundation: full-screen hero, trust-focused typography, consultation form wired to the firm’s CRM, and resource library for downloadable guides. The brand needed to read as careful, considered, and human, not as another financial-services template.
Before & After Web Design Rebuilds
Real client redesigns. Each one rebuilt on a hand-coded foundation. Drag the slider to see the difference between the original and our custom-coded rebuild.
Custom Web Design Portfolio: Chicago’s Western Suburbs
Recent work across healthcare, real estate, financial services, non-profit, home services, business consulting, e-commerce, and full-stack web applications. Every site hand-coded and performance-tuned. See more at our case studies page.
Samiya Hashmi, MD
Professional practice site for a Chicago functional medicine physician. Patient-first design, calendar booking, custom blog system.
Angie Daniels Real Estate
RE/MAX Alliance agent in Edwardsville, IL. Listings, neighborhood guides, and a dark-themed brand experience built for buyer and seller leads.
Heritage Wealth Solutions
Trust & estate planning practice. Resource library, downloadable guides, gated lead magnets, consultation form wired to the firm’s CRM.
QCAA Foundation
Quad-County African American Foundation. Donation flow, scholarship portal, event calendar, community engagement built for the foundation’s mission.
Air Cortez Houston
Lead-generation HVAC site for the Houston market. Service-area targeting, emergency CTAs, and review integration for a competitive home-services vertical.
Hot Dog Business Growth
36-year California consulting firm. Replaced a generic Divi template with a brand-led pitch: provocation hero, credentials above the fold, embedded lead form. Hand-coded for performance.
Card Imaging
Authorized ID card printer dealer in Woodridge, IL. A thin 17-page site rebuilt into a 440-page hand-coded e-commerce and resource platform: full product catalog, guided printer finder, and self-serve software store.
Weekend League
Full-stack fantasy baseball platform. Live MLB feeds, custom league creation, player database, weekly awards, built-in community forum.
What’s Included With Every Custom Website Build
Hand-coded HTML, CSS, JS
Every site we ship is written by hand. No page-builder bloat, no template inheritance, no plugin tax. Just the markup your site actually needs.
Lighthouse 90+ on launch
Performance is part of the spec, not an afterthought. Image optimization, lazy loading, font subsetting, and clean markup ship with every build.
Schema, sitemap, GSC setup
Structured data for your business type, OpenGraph for social, sitemap generation, Google Search Console wired and verified before handoff.
Lead capture & CRM
Contact forms wired to the inbox or CRM you actually use. Calendly, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Stripe: whatever the workflow needs.
Managed hosting included
SSL, daily backups, security updates, uptime monitoring. We handle the boring infrastructure so you don’t have to think about it.
90 days of unlimited edits
After launch you get 90 days of small edits at no extra cost. Copy tweaks, image swaps, new sections: you ask, we ship.
You own everything
Full source code, hosting account, domain, analytics. No proprietary platform lock-in. The site is yours to take wherever you want.
SaaS Platforms & Custom Web Applications We’ve Built
Four SaaS products, all in production, all built and maintained in-house. Each one started as something a real client needed: SMS for a campaign, canvassing for a field team, a chatbot a small business could actually deploy. Read more about our custom web application work, including custom web application development in Aurora.
SMS & Two-Way Messaging
Bulk SMS / MMS for political campaigns and growing businesses. Two-way inbox, segmentation, automation, full TCPA compliance out of the box.
Field Operations & Canvassing
GPS-tracked field operations platform with AI coaching and intelligent route optimization. Available on web, iOS, and Android. Works offline.
No-Code Chatbot Builder
Drag-and-drop chatbot platform that deploys across web, Facebook, and Instagram. 158 templates across 17 industries. White-label on every plan.
Secure Information Transfer
Encrypted document and credential transfer for CPAs, attorneys, and healthcare professionals. When email isn’t secure enough.
About Hunter Creative Media & Design: Aurora, IL Web Design Studio
Hunter Creative Media & Design started as a web design and marketing shop. We built sites, ran campaigns, and handled digital strategy for clients across industries. But along the way, we kept running into the same problem: the tools available were either too expensive, too complicated, or didn’t actually solve the problem.
So we started building our own. CampaignCNX+ came from a real campaign that needed affordable, TCPA-compliant SMS outreach. Beacon was born when we watched field canvassers track door knocks on paper clipboards. Alma happened because every client asked the same question: “Can I get a chatbot without hiring a developer?”
Today we’re a development studio that builds custom web applications and websites. We still take on web design and development projects for businesses in Chicago’s western suburbs, but our software is what scales. Read our blog to see what we’re working on.
Our Web Design Process
You talk to Brian directly: no account managers, no junior team handoffs, no offshore production line.
Discovery & Strategy
We start with a real conversation. Goals, audience, the systems you already use, the conversion you actually need. You leave with a written brief and a fixed quote, not a price range.
Design & Build
Custom design from a blank page. Hand-coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Tested on real devices. Reviewed with you at every milestone.
Launch & Ongoing Support
We handle hosting, SEO setup, schema markup, analytics, and the boring infrastructure stuff. After launch you get unlimited small edits for the first 90 days.
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