Prepping Yourself before Approaching Website Development Companies
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009A great business idea can still perform poorly due to isues with website design and/or web hosting. When thinking about which website development company to choose, you should play ‘website design bingo’ – we consider a ‘full house’ to be website design firms that at least touch upon these listed issues when discussing your proposed new site:-
- your plan – discussing specifically in terms of what the business intentions are – what is the website development company’s thoughts of your proposal ?
- ease-of-use – visitors can perform everything without thinking on your site
- issues of accessibility – so your site is able to be accessed by all, with the text clearly understood by the audience the site is targeted at
- SEO – providing your website respectable rankings
- content management – allowing you to edit the content on the site by oneself at any time
- site security – safety of sensitive data, with regular backups of data.
- hosting – will the website design company host the website? If so, what about their servers? Do they use shared servers with potentially 1000s of other companies on the same server, or do they have their own servers?
- tech support and after sales – will they serve your business once the website goes live? If so, how much is tech support? What about updates?
A decent web design company will enlighten you on the preceding matters, and how they handle them.
So how to discover such a web development firm in the first place? It’s better to search for one close to you, allowing you to call in them and have some peace of mind that they are also a bricks and mortar company with a good team behind them. On Google, type in a search term like “website design” and add your locality; e.g. : website design nottingham. This will give you a listing of web design companies in your location.