Website design in Schererville, Indiana.
I checked every business website in Schererville I could find, on a phone, and wrote down what was wrong with each one. 61 independent businesses, 29 of them with a website to open. Here is what that looked like, and what I charge to fix it.
The problem in Schererville is absence, not quality
Of the 61 independent businesses I found in Schererville, 32 have no website that I could locate at all. That is 52.5% of them, and it is the highest proportion of any finding here. The 29 that do have a site are, on the whole, in reasonable shape.
So the useful thing to say about Schererville is not that local websites are bad. It is that most businesses here are relying entirely on a Google listing, a Facebook page, or word of mouth. That works until somebody searches for what you do at nine in the evening and finds three competitors with a website and a price list.
An honest caveat. I could not find a website for these businesses. That is not the same as proving there is not one. Plenty of good sites were simply never recorded in the map data I started from. If yours is one of them, the count above is wrong by one and I would rather know.
Every fault I recorded in Schererville
Counted across the 29 Schererville sites that had an address to open. Most sites had more than one problem, so these do not add to 29.
| What was wrong | Sites in Schererville |
|---|---|
| No favicon, so the browser tab is blank | 7 |
| Downloads more than 4MB | 6 |
| Twelve or more pieces of text under 12px | 6 |
| Did not return a usable page | 5 |
| No meta description, so Google writes the snippet | 4 |
| No main heading | 4 |
| Copyright two or more years out of date | 3 |
| Phone number printed as text, so it cannot be tapped | 1 |
| Took over six seconds to load | 1 |
| Laid out with HTML tables, a pre-2005 technique | 1 |
The 32 businesses in Schererville with no website I could find include 6 fast foods and 14 restaurants.
The method, the full seventeen checks and the same numbers for every other town are in the full audit.
What a Schererville website costs here
A flat $499 to $899, paid once. Not a monthly plan, not a retainer, and no percentage of anything later. The domain and the site are registered in your name from the first day, so if you ever want to walk away you take the whole thing with you.
Most of my work in Schererville starts from nothing, which is the straightforward case: one page, live in a few days. Most builds take two to ten days. What is included and what counts as extra is on the scope and terms page, published before you pay rather than after, and what a website actually costs around here sets that price against the alternatives.
Why nothing I build for Schererville can rot
Starting from nothing in Schererville has one advantage: you never inherit somebody else's maintenance problem. The sites I build have no plugins, no database and no update cycle, so there is nothing in them that can break by itself while you are not looking. Here is the longer version of that argument, including what actually goes wrong with WordPress.
Across the county, 17 miles out
I am in Valparaiso, about 17 miles from Schererville, which is the far side of the service area and makes no difference to the work. I work online, so there is no salesman coming to your shop and no appointment to keep. Being local matters for a different reason: I know which towns these are, I know what a Lake County customer types into a phone, and I am not going to describe your trade wrongly.
If one of the 61 is yours
Tell me the name of your business and I will tell you exactly what I found when I opened your site, whether or not you ever hire me. There are five example builds on the front page you can open right now.