Choosing the Right Web Designer

Well, there are a few key-points to remember BEFORE you create one of the most crucial choices for your business.

Choosing the Proper designer for your new company website:

And the majority of them are fairly good at what they're doing.

Always ask to see samples of a web designer's previous work and analyze their portfolio.
This can help you get a better feel for your design of websites any specific website designer is really capable of accomplishing.
Most of the time, web designers have their own special style and you can easily see which designs they've done in the past.
I mean, it is similar to some other artist's style; you can definitely spot their prior works based on the overall design, color scheme, and over-all visual appearance of the sites.

Experience is also an integral factor here. The same as any other craft, internet designers get better with experience.
So naturally, you'll be better off by choosing a web designer that has more experience under their belt.

Or is it just a simple template web design which 100's or even 1,000's of individuals already have across the Internet.
But you must ask yourself: "is that really what I'm looking for"?

Web sites that are really custom built will stand out more the remainder of the basic template web layouts that all these people are using nowadays.
A customized web design will catch the attention of your potential customers and show them that you have a really professional internet presence and you mean business.

Lots of web designers these days Decide to do the template web sites for one of 2 reasons:

It is more economical to use a simple template web layout. They might be lacking the necessary skills needed to develop a completely custom web site.
Whatever the case may be, be sure to go with a designer who is capable of developing a custom web design for you.
It is going to necessarily cost you more for a custom made website. But it's totally worth the extra money spent.
Trust me, in the end you will be much happier with your web site if it is a site that's unique and created for just your business and not everyone else.

Communication with a potential web designer can also be critical in the growth of your web website. You will need to be perfectly clear and define your own aims up-front, before you actually sign a web design support contract using a designer.
Make sure you understand what you're getting for the money and make sure you get it in writing! I have a 9-page website design contract that I use every single time I design a new web website. Included in this contract is an itemized list of all work which is to be carried out during the development of the web site.
Items like the precise amount of pages, the exact amount of images to be made, whether or not I need to create a logo, the estimated time before conclusion, whether or not regular site maintenance will be carried out following the website is 6 weeks or 1 year old, etc.,.

Defining these items can help you in the long run and will also be sure you and also the web designer will be on exactly the exact same page.

I also use what I call my "web design preparation worksheet".
Things like "In 2 weeks the overall layout is going to be done" and "2 weeks then, the site will be coded and started" and then "In one moth after the web site is launched, we will evaluate it to see what has to be adjusted", etc. (these are only examples, incidentally.
The details included in one of my actual worksheets gives precise dates and more specific milestones).

And what about the internet hosting for your new web website?
Ordinarily, a website designer will offer some kind of insight about which hosting company they advocate. Web designers in general have a taste for a hosting company which they know will be a good option for your internet site and they should help you in making this choice.

Fortunately, we now have our own web server here at Digital Spiral Web Design so we can do all of the hosting ourselves.
 This is very valuable because we could guarantee that the web server stays up and running and when there's any maintenance that needs to be carried out on the machine, we could do it ourselves in a timely manner.
Plus, we'll always cut a bargain for our website hosting services to any new company who chooses us to do their internet design.