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Choosing the right Web Designer

So, you've finally decided that you need a web site for your business? Well, there are a few key-points to remember Before you make one of the most crucial decisions for your business.
Choosing the right designer for your home based business web site:
When it comes to choosing the right website design company for your web site, you should always shop around first to check out all of the available options. There are many web design companies out there to choose from. And most of them are pretty good at what they do.
Always ask to see types of a web designer's previous work and examine their account. This will help you get a better feel for the style of sites any particular website design company is capable of doing. Most of the time, web site designers have their own unique style and you can easily spot which designs they've done in the past. After all, it's similar to any other artist's style; you can definitely spot their previous works based on the general layout, color scheme, and over-all visual appearance of the sites.
Experience is also a key factor here. Just like any other craft, web site designers get better with experience. So naturally, you'll be better off by choosing a website design company who has more experience under his or her belt.
Another heavily weighed you should define is whether or not the website design company can make that you a 100% custom web site. Or will it be just a basic template web design that dozens and dozens or even 1, 000's of people already have across the Internet. Pretty much anybody these days can create a basic HTML web page in Microsoft Word or Publisher and change the title today to reflect their Branson business. But you must ask yourself: "is this really what I'm looking for"?
Web sites that are truly custom built will stand out more other basic template web designs that so many people are using these days. A custom web design will catch the eye of your potential customers and show them that you have a really professional web presence and you mean business.
A lot of web site designers these days choose to do the template web sites for one of 2 reasons:
It's cheaper to use a basic template web design. They are lacking the mandatory skills needed to produce a fully custom Jezweb . Whatever the case may be, make sure you go with a designer who is capable of creating a custom web design for you. It will inevitably cost you more for a custom site. But it is totally worth the excess money spent. Trust me, in the end you will be much happier with your web site if it is a web page that's unique and created for just your business and not everybody else's.
Communication with a potential website design company is also critical in the development of your web site. You need to be perfectly clear and define your goals up-front, before you actually sign a web design service contract with a designer. Make sure you know what you are getting for your money and make sure you get it written! I have a 9-page web site design contract i always use every single time I design a new web site. Most notable contract is an itemized list of all work that is to be performed during the development of the web site. Things like the number of pages, the number of graphics to be designed, whether or not I need to create a logo, the estimated time before the end, whether or not routine site maintenance will be performed after the site is few months or one year old, etc.
Defining these things will help you in the long run and will also make sure you and the website design company are on the same page.
I also use what I call my web design planning worksheet. This worksheet gives "milestones" or deadlines for each phase of the web design project. Things like In weeks the reccommended layout will be done" and weeks after that, the site will be coded and launched" and then "In one moth after the web site is launched, we will evaluate it to see what needs to be adjusted", etc. (these are just examples, by the way. the details included in one of my actual worksheets gives exact dates and more specific milestones).
And why not consider the web hosting for your new web site? Usually, a website design company will provide some kind of insight as to which hosting company they recommend. Web site designers in general have a preference for a hosting company that they know will be a good choice for your web site and they should assist you in making this selection.

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