How to Choose Your Web Designer?
Choosing Your Website Designer
A Good Web-Design can boost your business and a bad one can set it back. It is thus highly recommended that you choose your Web-Designer wisely. Most often than not, there are two extremes of Designers.
The first kind, are those who concentrate more on the design aspect and are referred to as ‘Design-Oriented’.
The second kind, are those concentrate more on the functionality of the web-site and are thus referred to as ‘Functionality-Oriented’ Designers. Striking a balance between these two extremes is not as easy as it may sound.
In order to obtain a fully functional, user-friendly web-site that will enable you generate your business online and enhance your web-presence,you need to ensure that your web-designer takes into account the following aspects levels –
- Visual Level – Appropriate web-layouts. Clear texts and suitable color themes.
- Program Level – Proper Navigation and Cross-Linking for easy access.
- Graphic Level – Compressed Images, Music and Video to reduce loading time.
- Marketing Level – SEO, E-Newsletters, Referral Web-Sites etc.
A Design is all about communication. Your web-designer, should ask you as many questions about your business as possible in order to understand your requirements and deliver accordingly.
The following are questions that you need to clear with your designer –
- Enquire with your web-designer whether they deal with graphic only, programming only or both.
- Enquire whether there is any ‘Design Phase’ that they follow so that both you and your designer can keep tabs on the progress.
- Enquire about their past and current projects and try to talking their existing clients.
- Enquire whether they offer post-sales maintenance and service.
- Enquire and decide about deadlines for the project.
- Enquire about the billing process.
- Enquire about hidden costs and charges.
Apart from having effective page titles, meta tags in codes, keyword links, a good web-designer offers clarity throughout the development of the web-site. Your web-designers can be freelancers, who offer more personalized service and are less expensive; or web designing companies that tend to have more resources and offer faster services.
Your web-design plays a pivotal role in enhancing your web-presence and increasing your business through the online media. Thus choose a web-designer who understands the nuances of your business and thus achieve your business goals.
Dream Dezigns will be a perfect Web designer for your Web designing projects, please contact us.