About Us
About Lakeside Web Design
A small Midwest team focused on websites that generate leads.
Lakeside Web Design helps small businesses in Milwaukee and Chicago build sites that rank in search, convert visitors, and give their sales team better leads to work with.
We started Lakeside because small businesses were getting ripped off
We watched small business owners pay $5,000+ for cookie-cutter websites that looked like templates (because they were). Monthly “SEO reports” full of charts that didn't connect to a single phone call. Agencies that disappeared after launch and billed for maintenance that never happened.
Lakeside exists because someone needed to do this differently. We build sites that actually generate leads, track what matters (calls, forms, revenue, not impressions), and tell you straight when something isn't working. Every site passes Core Web Vitals. Every page has a conversion job. Every month you know exactly what we did and what it produced.
Jamie Fish
Founder & Lead Strategist
Jamie started building websites in high school, turned it into a career, and spent over a decade watching agencies charge small businesses premium prices for generic templates and vague deliverables. He founded Lakeside to prove that great web design and real marketing results don't require a Fortune 500 budget. Just a team that actually cares about your leads, your revenue, and your time. He personally leads strategy on every project and uses AI tools to build smarter, faster, and with better data than agencies twice our size.
How we work differently
You talk to the person doing the work
No account managers relaying messages. No offshore teams. When you have a question, you get a direct answer from the person building your site or running your campaigns.
You own everything we build
Your domain, your code, your content, your data. If you ever leave, it all goes with you. We never hold websites hostage.
We use AI to work smarter, not to cut corners
AI-powered lead qualification, smart content structuring for search engines, and development tools that let us build faster. You get better results at a lower cost, not worse work at a faster pace.
We report on leads and revenue, not vanity metrics
Monthly updates cover calls, form submissions, conversion rates, and what we're working on next. No 40-page PDFs full of impressions and bounce rates that don't connect to your bottom line.