Choosing a company is like choosing a make-up artist, because your website is what will present you and your company to the world. This is where customers get the necessary information needed to deal with your company.
Any site that fall short of providing a unique experience might ruin your online reputation. Your website should be well laid out giving the users easy access and navigation.
The internet and web technologies have developed over time, new ideas and more achievement are recorded almost every day. Also the business of web design and development is also flooded with experienced and half baked professionals. This has created a great problem in the industry, everybody what to get the job, but who will get the job done well? Here are proven ways to choose good web developer or designers.
Year of Experience: This is number one thing you must consider in choosing the company. A company with two to three years of experience will definitely know their onions; they must have handled a lot of projects to give them the necessary skills and knowledge in the act of web development and design.
They must have been in that particular market and know the trends and new technologies that should be deployed in order to satisfy customers needs. Experience will help to tackle challenges; it will always come to play when the tools are down.
Their Range of Services: It is always good to check the services they claim to offer. Their service portfolio will tell you the skills, the level of know-how possessed by the company. You may go through and point out what is relevant to what you want from them. The richer the services they offer the better chance of you choosing them.
Customers review: Check if there are customers reviews and relate it with what you are about to offer. The company might not really be an expert in what you are looking for. Are there any complaints about them? You can search for customers’ reviews on the internet and get relevant information concerning their past encounter with their customers. Their reputation over the time is a sure bet in determining the company that will handle your projects.
Past Projects: Am sure that most web development companies will always show case their past projects and clients they have worked for. Check the quality of works they have done, check the companies that have offered them jobs. You can also check for their jobs for the following:
• Good Design Layout
• Brilliant User Interface
• Good Navigation Arrangement
• Sign-Up / Subscribe
• Sitemap
• Separate Design from Content
• Valid XHTML / CSS
• Cross Browser Compatibility
• Web Optimized Images
Technique employed: Having check their collection of jobs, you must also check the techniques and technologies deployed.
Some nice tools for querying site details (no doubt there are many more):
• BuiltWith
• Websitehealthcheck
• DomainTools
• NetCraft
• W3Techs
• SimilarTech
Firefox addons:
• Wappalyzer - CMS, frameworks/libraries, e-commerce, message boards etc.
• Domain Details - IP, country and webserver details
• Library Detector - Javascript libraries in use
Chrome Extensions:
• Wappalyzer
• SimilarTech
• PageXray
Bookmarklets:
• WTFramework - shows Javascript framework in use
Cost: Check the cost effectiveness as to what you or your company can afford, you have to be smart here because you can get the same job done at a lesser price. Although to get a good development and design it will go for a good price.
With the above points, I believe someone will be able to make a good decision, get the job done and get value for what you have paid for.
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