Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Questions to ask a Web Design Firm

Need a website for your business? Or just need a modern redesign of your existing website?

It can be quite difficult choosing the right web design firm to award your project to, so we have decided together a list of questions that might help when choosing ...

Questions to ask yourself
  1. Does the companies portfolio have similar designs or designs you really like?
  2. Do I like their style of designs? For example you might like web 2.0 web design
  3. Do all their websites look the same?
Questions to ask the company
  1. What is the size of the company? This is important as it can affect many aspects of the project. Small companies will not have as many skills sets, or resources to attend to your project. Whilst larger companies will may not be as caring and attentative to your needs.
  2. What Skills, qualifications and references do they posess? Just act as if you were interviewing someone for a position, as this is what is occuring, only on a more temporary basis.
  3. What kind of pricing method do you use? This will vary ... some have small setup costs and large recurring payments while others are the opposite with large setup costs and low recurring payments ... be sure to know what will suit you best.
Written by Paul Duffy of J Squared Web Solutions, providing web design, internet marketing, graphic design.