Web Design Built to Convert, Not Just to Look Good.
Karben designs and builds websites around search performance and lead conversion from the first wireframe, so the site that wins a design award and the site that actually grows your business are the same site.
Wix Legend Partner
Google Ads Certified
17 Google reviews
Chicagoland Established 2013
What's included in a Karben Web Design engagement
Conversion-Focused Design
Layout, hierarchy, and calls to action designed around what makes a visitor call, book, or buy, not around trends that look good in a portfolio.
Wix & WordPress Development
Built on the platform that actually fits your business and budget, with the technical foundation both platforms need to perform well in search.
Site Speed & Core Web Vitals
A fast, technically clean build from day one. Speed is both a ranking factor and the difference between a visitor staying or bouncing.
Mobile-First Responsive Build
Designed for the phone screen first, since most of your traffic will arrive on one, not adapted from a desktop layout as an afterthought.
SEO-Ready Architecture From Day One
URL structure, navigation depth, and the technical foundation built in from the start: the fixes that are far cheaper to get right before launch than after.
A beautiful website that doesn't rank or convert is an expensive brochure.
Design and SEO get treated as separate disciplines by a lot of agencies: one team builds the site, another team tries to fix it for search afterward. We build both at once, because the decisions that make a site fast, crawlable, and conversion-focused have to happen at the wireframe stage, not after launch.
That means every site we build starts from the same search-first foundation as our SEO work: clean architecture, real page-speed budgets, and content structured around actual search intent, with design layered on top of that foundation, not bolted onto it.
"We don't hand off a beautiful site and hope it ranks. We build the site to already be doing the job an SEO campaign would otherwise have to fix later."
From Karben Marketing, on-page positioning statement
How a Web Design engagement actually runs
01
Discovery & Wireframing
We map your business goals, real content, and search opportunity before a single visual design decision gets made.
02
Design & Content
Visual design and content are developed together, so the copy that needs to rank and convert shapes the layout, not the other way around.
03
Build & QA
Development, speed optimization, and cross-device testing, with SEO fundamentals verified before anything goes live.
04
Launch & Handoff
A clean launch with full training and documentation: you own the site and know how to run it, not just log into it.
Real Client Results
A Wix website built to perform.
AMK Counseling's Wix website is part of an integrated search program spanning site optimization, Local SEO, authority building and paid search.
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+138% growth in total sessions for a Wix site built and supported as part of a broader search program.
Sharks Basketball, Youth Basketball Programs & Camps · 10-month Local SEO campaign
+138%
Total Sessions
11,041 → 26,303
+114%
Organic Sessions
6,624 → 14,147
+150%
Organic Views
14,314 → 35,828
These results come from AMK Counseling's broader Karben engagement, which included site optimization, Local SEO, authority building and Google Ads.
How to evaluate a web design company
A portfolio full of pretty screenshots doesn't tell you whether a site will actually perform. Here's what we think is actually worth checking before you hire one, including us.
A buyer's checklist, not a competitor comparison
What to check | Why it matters |
|---|---|
Real Core Web Vitals scores on past work | A slow site loses visitors and rankings regardless of how it looks. |
SEO built in, not added on after launch | Retrofitting SEO onto a finished site is slower and more limited than building it in. |
You own your own domain, hosting, and CMS access | Some agencies quietly retain control. Always confirm you own everything. |
A clear content and copywriting process | A gorgeous template with placeholder text isn't a finished website. |
What Chicagoland clients say
"We notice a difference.
AMK Counseling
"If you want results and less talk. Give them a call."
Jerry Freund
"One of the best decisions we have ever made as a business."
Supreme Courts
Frequently asked questions
Website pricing depends on the size of the site, the platform, the amount of content involved, and what the site needs to do. Karben scopes web design projects individually rather than forcing every business into the same package. We'll review your current site and what you're trying to accomplish before providing a clear project cost.
Timelines depend on the size and complexity of the site and how quickly content, approvals, and feedback come together. We'll establish the scope, responsibilities, and expected timeline before the project begins so you know what the process looks like from the start.
Yes. Karben is a Wix Legend Partner and builds and optimizes Wix websites for businesses that want a platform their internal team can realistically manage. We also provide Wix SEO for existing Wix sites that don't need a complete redesign.
It depends on what the website needs to do and who will manage it after launch. Wix can be a strong fit for many service businesses because it's easier to manage internally. WordPress provides more flexibility for sites with more complex technical requirements. We'll recommend the platform that fits the project rather than forcing every client onto the same CMS.
Yes. Search considerations are part of the project from the beginning, including site architecture, page structure, content, internal linking, metadata, technical fundamentals, and redirects when an existing site is being replaced. A new website shouldn't have to be rebuilt for SEO six months after it launches.
Yes. Content and design are developed together. We work through page structure, search intent, messaging, headlines, calls to action, and on-page copy as part of the website process rather than designing pages around placeholder text.
Let's talk about your website.
A real conversation about what your current site is costing you, not a canned pitch.