How to Find a Good Professional Web Designer

Finding a good professional web designer is more about looking on the Internet for a company. Once you have your list of potential candidates, you need to figure out which are professional and which are amateur. This article covers a few ways you can figure that out.

A good web designer uses industry standard rates

You can find out the industry standards online. There are online companies such that do a similar job to “Which”, in that they give you an overview of prices, services and their quality.

However, failing that - you may wish to try getting quotes from various companies and taking a mean number to estimate the industry standard. Taking a mean number is more accurate than taking an average, because it absorbs extremely high or low quotes, just as long as you have a reasonably sized group of prices to use.

A professional web designer will not promise you everything

If you hire a chef to cook at your party, he or she may offer you high quality food, or a fast turnaround, or a wide selection of meats, or a low price. If a chef offered you all four of those factors, you may look upon their offer with caution.

How can a chef provide high quality food if it is cooked fast? How can a chef offer a wide selection of foods and meats for a low price? Offering you everything would raise concerns--as it should with a web design company.

If they are offering you fast loading times, highly graphic pages, low cost, multiple features, fast production, etc, you should look upon them with suspicion. If they are offering you a lot of features for a quick turnaround, you should start to wonder if they are creating a website from a template.

If this is the case, you could sign up for a $15 template company website, and create your own site of a similar quality. If they are offering you a shorter production time, is it because they are high priced and have a short waiting list? Alternatively, is it because they have few customers and nothing to do all day?

Have a look at their portfolio

Most clever independent website designers have a portfolio for you to look at. Some companies will also have a portfolio. They may have one for their individual staff members, or one for the whole group. Nevertheless, you should find out if they have one.

The better companies will allow you to hand minor website updates

They will give you some form of platform so that you may update your website on smaller scales. They should allow you to update it with new products or new blogs and content. If they do not have a platform, GUI or method for allowing you to do this, you should be very wary.

They may be looking for a long-term means of charging you repeatedly. Imagine having to call them up and have them charge you every time you need a new product placing on there, or when you add a new staff member to your team. You are supposed to be the one to be able to make such updates.

If they offer you no means to update your own website in such a manner, then they are probably not a very professional company/group.

Good web designers are professional

A professional attitude should be expected. This involves promptly returning your calls or contacts, and professional communication. If they fall apart on any aspect of professionalism then you should expect a lot more un-professionalism in the future.

They should clearly explain each design aspect

If you make it clear to the company that you are paddling in unfamiliar waters, they should go out of their way to put you at ease and explain each design aspect and process. If they respond by trying to sell you even more services then they are demonstrating that they think you are a sucker.

If they are a professional group, they should respond by educating you as to what you are getting into, so that you are able to make a more informed decision. They should do this without pushing their services onto you. If they are telling you something is fantastic for no obvious reason, you should consider trying a different company.

   Sonia Jackson

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