JBAR Design Studio — Chicago, IL
Websites for the businesses
that built the neighborhood.
$400 flat. Built in a week. Live forever.
Selected Work
2024 – 2025
01 / Café
Linden & Oak
Independent neighborhood café in Lincoln Square, Chicago. Full menu, hours, and story.
View live site →02 / Auto
Belmont Auto Works
Family-run auto repair shop on Chicago's North Side. Three generations, one address.
View live site →03 / Salon
Maren Studio
Owner-operated hair salon in Lincoln Square. By appointment, built around one stylist.
View live site →Scope
What $400 gets you.
What's included
- Custom design — not a template
- Mobile-first, fully responsive build
- Up to 5 pages
- Contact form
- Setup on your custom domain
- Hosted free on Vercel
- One round of revisions
- Live in 7 days
What we don't do
- E-commerce or booking systems (separate quote)
- Logo design
- Photography or copywriting
- SEO consulting
Being clear about what we don't do means you get a faster result and no awkward scope conversations halfway through.
Process
How it works.
01
Talk
A 15-minute call to understand your business, your customers, and what you actually need.
02
Design
First draft within 3 days. You'll see the full site — desktop and mobile — before we write a line of code.
03
Build
One round of revisions on the design, then we build. No feature creep. No moving targets.
04
Launch
Live on your domain, fully working. We handle the deployment so you don't have to.
Studio
JBAR Design Studio
JBAR Design Studio is a small independent web studio based on Chicago's North Side. We build websites for local businesses who'd rather run their business than wrestle with Wix.
We work with one client at a time. Every site is built from scratch — no templates, no themes, no page builders. The result is a site that looks like your business, not like everyone else's. We keep the price flat and the timeline short because that's what small business owners actually need.
If you're a small business owner in Chicago and you've been meaning to get a real website, that's why we exist.
Contact
Let's start something.
Tell us about your business — we'll be in touch within 24 hours.
hello@jbar.studio