In this article you will come to know some important points that you need to ask from your designer when you are going to have a website for your new business.
Introduction:
When you are going to hire a web designer who has created many professional sites then ask him some of the important points that are necessary for you when you are going to have a new website for your new business.
Be careful and suspicious of those companies who charge per hour for making the site. These companies may not have any particular fee schedule. So your website may cost you very little profit in this way. You can ask form your designing company to take flat fee as you must know for what you are paying. You can choose any of the payment modes like 50% as the down payment and further in installments or after completing the site. Or if you are dealing with your designer online then you can pay him online in installments or as he prefers. You may pay the flat fee in advance as it works because you are paying for the creation of the site and not for any product that you are purchasing online.
Ask from your designer to complete your site within the TAT ie turn around time for writing on website. Help your designer as he may not know what text you want to write on your website so you need to give all the information to your designer. You can get your website within the desired period as the work will be done faster. You need to provide all the desired information and requirements to your designer that you need on your site. Provide quick information with all the proofs to your designer so that your work should be done faster and your site gets ready for work.
Try to use original custom designs as they can provide brand to your image. If you need professionally designed site for your business then ask your designer not to use pre designed templates and that too without customization. If you think you will need to do fully customized work then you need a professional site that can provide full customization. Know the process that how your designer is creating the website.
Ask your designer to create a very flexible website for you because from the point of view of business you may need a website that has dynamic features. Printing advertises may be static. But you need to update your website as your business grows. If you need some changes in your site then also ask from your designer to do it as fast as he can. If you are designing for any new site then ask your designer to provide functions that can help you in doing desirable changes in your site when required.
You may also ask your designer to optimize your web pages and then submit them on search engines. But if your designer is unable to do this then end up paying for his services, if you can not do this then prepare yourself for doing the optimization of the page. Ask your designer to provide you at lest Meta tags as he can do this without all SEO tools but make sure that all your keywords must be covered in your content so that you can submit your site on to search engines and free directories so as to gain customers and visitors.
If your designers do not offer you domain name and hosting and he is just designing your pages then remain careful of these designers. Sometimes the designer’s quotes only include designing process. If you do not know much about domain name and hosting procedure then ask your web administrator to do all these things for you so that you can launch your site as it gets completed. Make sure that your web administrator should manage your site for you as long as you do your business. Try to have the domain name for your site which should have the extension like .com, .net etc. this is because the sites with these extensions are considered better than any other sites and are taken seriously by search engines also. So if you are having a very professional site then it does not look perfect that it is hosted on any free site as it can put down your image.
Ask your web administrator to offer you money back guarantee this is because if you feel that your designer is not doing the work properly or if he is not able to create the look that you want then you can ask for the money you have paid. There are many big companies which offer money back guarantee to their customers.
Try to use these points before you give money to any of your desired web designer and then face any trouble there after.