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Choosing A Web Design Company
What questions should you be asking your web designers?
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Portfolio Of Design Work
Looking at a web designer's portfolio of past projects
is the quickest and easiest way to decide if they are
the right company for your needs.
Questions you should be asking yourself include: |
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- Is their portfolio of work sympathetic to my
business?
- Do I like their style of design?
- Do all their websites look the same?
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Although your first impact of the company will usually
be their own website, make sure you look deeper into
their portfolio. Every designer is capable of producing
one great website - but can they produce twenty great
websites in succession?
Expect a portfolio of at least eight websites - and look
for a good variety of work. |
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Web design Cost
Web design companies can have very different ways of
charging. Some may charge high set-up costs and low
recurring fees. Some will pull in customers with a low
set-up cost and then charge high recurring fees.
Bear in mind that most professional web design companies
work on a bespoke basis - and will therefore not be able
to publish specific prices. They will however, be able
to provide you with a ball-park figure based on a
technical and/or design brief.
They should also be able to provide you with an
indication of what their hourly/daily rate is.
Skills, Qualifications and References
Skills
Whether the design company has appropriate skills will
depend solely on your aims and objectives.
Do you require Flash animation, database design, client
log-in areas or search engine optimisation? If so, can
that web design company produce such work? If they say
they can - make sure they can prove it.
Qualifications
It is perfectly acceptable to ask for the credentials of
the designers or key members within the company.
Whilst qualifications do not necessarily mean that the
website design company is up to the job (or that a
design company without specific qualifications is not up
the job) it is a fair way to judge their experience and
expertise.
References
The main problem with relying on published references is
that no company will advertise a bad or indifferent
reference. However, look for companies that at least
provide some kind of client feedback.
Make sure the source of the quote is published -
alongside their contact details. Most people genuinely
enjoy offering recommendations - so don't worry about
making a quick phone call or email to previous clients
to ask for some impartial advice.
Size Of The Web design Company
Largely speaking, the size of the company provides you
with no indication to the quality or work they can
produce; or the services they can provide.
There are a lot of freelance web designers who can
produce far superior work to large companies, but there
are also freelance web designers who charge much more
than large companies.
Don't let your preconceptions about the size of
companies get in the way of the facts.
More important considerations are whether they are going
to be proactive - and if they can offer a high level of
support. Companies that do not provide a landline phone
number or an address will almost certainly be harder to
contact when you need them the most.
Deadlines
Make sure that your projected time scale is achievable
by that company.
The complexity of the site will affect this greatly -
and the designer will need a specific brief before being
able to provide time scales. Find out how to write a
design brief here.
Personality
Perhaps most importantly, make sure that you get on with
your web designers!
Many web design projects can last months or even years -
so a high level of compatibility will ultimately make
the process considerably more enjoyable for everyone.
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