How do you begin when you are needing for a suitable web designer?
In these hard times more and more companies are falling back to the internet for some extra income. Where should you be starting and what sort of web designer should you approach? Keith, who offers Southport website design services, takes a look at this.
Many small companies might try a facebook page or start off by selling small amounts of ranges on Ebay, but for others, these aren’t ‘professional’ enough and even those that try these quick and easy methods find that they out grow them and want to try a full of site that is professionally created for them.
There are many small companies that try the next step themselves – using an off the shelf tool to make a site. But for most people, the site made this way does not look as good as the competitor’s. The site does not work as well as their competitor’s – the search engines being unable to visit the site as easily as they would a site written by hand. And the results from the visitors flowing into the site are poor.
Don’t get put off by these factors. There are many web designers out there and there is almost bound to be one for you! But where do you start? A small shop, desiring a basic site, maybe selling or maybe just giving more information, might well be best asking one of the number of freelance web designers that make their services available on the market. Being freelance, they can usually work closely with you without costing a fortune and offer an affordable web site design service.
At the other end of the budget, if you have a huge budget to spend then you probably need to approach a large web design company with a myriad of graphic designers and a variety support staff. They will be able to offer you far more, but because the company has many levels of staff to pay for, from salesmen to legal team to personnel department, the project is going to cost far more to complete.
What then should you be asking when you approach a web designer? Well, for a start, it is good to know what you want out of the site. Will you be selling stock? Will you just be using it as a contact point? Tell them that first – it might make the project too big or too small for them to handle. If you want to sell stock on the website ask to see a recent E-Commerce site that they have built themselves. And when they show you an example site, make sure that the site has a link back to them as the website designer! If not, then it is possible that they are showing you someone else’s site. That’s not always the case, but most proud web designers will put their own link back from the site. Be suspicious if not!
Don’t forget that this is not just about web design. Successful online business needs traffic – find out how to get free traffic to your web sites.








































































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