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How to Choose a Good Web Design Company — 4 Questions to Ask
by Harikrishna Patel Softqubes TechnologiesIsn’t it good to set up an initial or refurbished website to launch products and services afresh online? You know the intense competition with customers searching the internet for small purchases, and ordering them too. Building a website has many interesting DIY options, but should you be going it alone? It might be risky! Though templates enable a good looking website set up in minutes, it would not ensure a substantial web presence. What about all the functions and the security, the linking and the social media connections? Contact forms and feedback, fast loading and endearing layouts? You need a dedicated professional Web Design Company that will use the emerging trends and the latest software packages.
Budgets and Pricing
When you explore products and services online or in the town too, some companies display tags for the whole world to see. Yet, all the companies are not so liberal with information. Perhaps they want to keep prices confidential or have something to hide. Yet, they may be good at the work and reveal pricing upon private contact.
Calculate what your company priorities are and what limit of budgets would be possible. Work within those parameters and enquire about the costs.
Rather than a lumpsum, break down the task into parts.
Insist on personal meetings with the team or person who will work on your project. Local companies are best for close cooperation. Nowadays, too many global and faraway companies work for less but be very careful. Recommendations and reviews should pave the way. Avoid taking big risks to regret later. Pay attention to hunches and instincts in selecting the company finally.
Compromises may have to be made if it is an exceptional company in some other city. Arrange for regular face to face meetings online perhaps on a weekly basis, if not more often.
Unlike MRP tags displayed in malls, such large projects have flexible pricing and negotiations and bargains are part of the policy. Agreements should hint at the quality of the work being acceptable as a clause. What happens if promises or timelines are not honored? Will hidden costs figure later, unexpectedly?
Discuss the range of services required
In many cases with small or medium-sized organizations, what is required goes far beyond a website. Do you need copywriting services, changes of layout and design, and marketing too with sustained customer support and updates after the launch? A company that provides comprehensive services would be preferable rather than web design alone.
Be firmly on guard because the digital world has hundreds of these outsourced companies. They will quickly put together the website and collect payments, partly in advance, to leave you for good. What happens if your office does not have qualified IT staff to launch and manage the website afterwards?
If it is a second or third company website, perhaps through refurbishing, you enjoy certain advantages of experience and previous data. Startups have the advantages of freshness but are short on experience.
What are the expectations? Draw up some rough plans based upon similar websites online. Maybe it is a photography and videography website in the making. Won’t you expect it to be somewhat similar to the other websites in the genre, though different through personalization? Keep a file of similar websites upon which you based your model and check later to see if it compares favorably.
Do they use the common open source WordPress or some other CMS platform? It would feel good to discuss a few technicalities to be better convinced of the veracity of the work. Avoid one to one discussions and aim to have a second member of your team present and likewise with the web company.
Customer support, updates and maintenance, webhosts and changes in webhosting should all be discussed and preferably put down in black and white.
Verification of portfolio and references
Have you heard of online colleges operating from a single room and similar web companies with a single worker? They are all possible in digital days!
As a result of sustained research, perhaps you have three company names. Now comes the sensitive process of looking into the details of accomplishment.
Even a plumber and tailor either carries a license, certificates or samples of previous work just like architects and teachers.
Start with the company website itself like an advertisement of their web designing skills. Does it feel like you should be employing them? Does it look esthetic, load fast, is easy to navigate and access all the functions. Is it inclusive enough and throws light on important professional aspects in the blog?
The company website would lay out all the details of the software packages they work with and a portfolio that at least partially reflects their achievements. Getting impressed is easy with hundreds of similar websites that look equally alluring. Spend a while and invite opinions from colleagues.
Are those pretty websites cited in the portfolio still existing? Links may be provided as in most cases. Check them out thoroughly. Do they reflect real companies that also have a brick and mortar presence, perhaps in the same city or neighborhood? Aim at local impressions first.
Along with the portfolio, check a few references to be doubly certain. Don’t forget that it is a crucial choice of web developer and the website is going to make a great difference. If successful, the sky is the limit to success. Conversely, it could turn out to be wasteful spending with frauds online.
Honoring deadlines
Many very busy web companies have the habit of taking up work but are unable to honor commitments. If you have a tight schedule and cannot afford to wait indefinitely, keep that in mind while making the agreement. Clearly set out the expected dates for each of the prototyping stages culminating in the trial and the final launch. Make sure that the company will not disappear at a crucial stage. Don’t make it a rushed plan of action either. Keep some margins with time just like you do with money. Realistic and achievable targets should be quite possible. SOFTQUBE TECHNOLOGIES would be able to fulfill all the sweet dreams.
Budgets and Pricing
When you explore products and services online or in the town too, some companies display tags for the whole world to see. Yet, all the companies are not so liberal with information. Perhaps they want to keep prices confidential or have something to hide. Yet, they may be good at the work and reveal pricing upon private contact.
Calculate what your company priorities are and what limit of budgets would be possible. Work within those parameters and enquire about the costs.
Rather than a lumpsum, break down the task into parts.
Insist on personal meetings with the team or person who will work on your project. Local companies are best for close cooperation. Nowadays, too many global and faraway companies work for less but be very careful. Recommendations and reviews should pave the way. Avoid taking big risks to regret later. Pay attention to hunches and instincts in selecting the company finally.
Compromises may have to be made if it is an exceptional company in some other city. Arrange for regular face to face meetings online perhaps on a weekly basis, if not more often.
Unlike MRP tags displayed in malls, such large projects have flexible pricing and negotiations and bargains are part of the policy. Agreements should hint at the quality of the work being acceptable as a clause. What happens if promises or timelines are not honored? Will hidden costs figure later, unexpectedly?
Discuss the range of services required
In many cases with small or medium-sized organizations, what is required goes far beyond a website. Do you need copywriting services, changes of layout and design, and marketing too with sustained customer support and updates after the launch? A company that provides comprehensive services would be preferable rather than web design alone.
Be firmly on guard because the digital world has hundreds of these outsourced companies. They will quickly put together the website and collect payments, partly in advance, to leave you for good. What happens if your office does not have qualified IT staff to launch and manage the website afterwards?
If it is a second or third company website, perhaps through refurbishing, you enjoy certain advantages of experience and previous data. Startups have the advantages of freshness but are short on experience.
What are the expectations? Draw up some rough plans based upon similar websites online. Maybe it is a photography and videography website in the making. Won’t you expect it to be somewhat similar to the other websites in the genre, though different through personalization? Keep a file of similar websites upon which you based your model and check later to see if it compares favorably.
Do they use the common open source WordPress or some other CMS platform? It would feel good to discuss a few technicalities to be better convinced of the veracity of the work. Avoid one to one discussions and aim to have a second member of your team present and likewise with the web company.
Customer support, updates and maintenance, webhosts and changes in webhosting should all be discussed and preferably put down in black and white.
Verification of portfolio and references
Have you heard of online colleges operating from a single room and similar web companies with a single worker? They are all possible in digital days!
As a result of sustained research, perhaps you have three company names. Now comes the sensitive process of looking into the details of accomplishment.
Even a plumber and tailor either carries a license, certificates or samples of previous work just like architects and teachers.
Start with the company website itself like an advertisement of their web designing skills. Does it feel like you should be employing them? Does it look esthetic, load fast, is easy to navigate and access all the functions. Is it inclusive enough and throws light on important professional aspects in the blog?
The company website would lay out all the details of the software packages they work with and a portfolio that at least partially reflects their achievements. Getting impressed is easy with hundreds of similar websites that look equally alluring. Spend a while and invite opinions from colleagues.
Are those pretty websites cited in the portfolio still existing? Links may be provided as in most cases. Check them out thoroughly. Do they reflect real companies that also have a brick and mortar presence, perhaps in the same city or neighborhood? Aim at local impressions first.
Along with the portfolio, check a few references to be doubly certain. Don’t forget that it is a crucial choice of web developer and the website is going to make a great difference. If successful, the sky is the limit to success. Conversely, it could turn out to be wasteful spending with frauds online.
Honoring deadlines
Many very busy web companies have the habit of taking up work but are unable to honor commitments. If you have a tight schedule and cannot afford to wait indefinitely, keep that in mind while making the agreement. Clearly set out the expected dates for each of the prototyping stages culminating in the trial and the final launch. Make sure that the company will not disappear at a crucial stage. Don’t make it a rushed plan of action either. Keep some margins with time just like you do with money. Realistic and achievable targets should be quite possible. SOFTQUBE TECHNOLOGIES would be able to fulfill all the sweet dreams.
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About Harikrishna Patel 
Softqubes Technologies
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