Questions You Should Ask Before Hiring a Web Design Company

13 Jan 2017 by Ravi Sah

What are the service plans and pricing for them?

Hiring a Web Design Company is a crucial decision as you are not only giving them the responsibility of the website but also the exposure your website gets will affect the business.

Potential clients will be interacting via your company's website itself.

1. What are the service plans and pricing for them?

There will be different service plans offered by the web design company. Make sure to go through all of them before choosing the one that best suits your requirement for your website. The time taken for delivering the desired results should be thoroughly discussed before. Based on the project's needs the company should be able to tell that how much the completion will require realistically. How the pricing is done? It can be based on hourly rates or flat fee according to the agreement.

2. Who all are in your team and how qualified are they?

The web design company's staffs is composed of the real people that will be dealing with constructing your website and knowing their qualifications will assure you that you have the best team at your service. Will the project be headed by a dedicated project manager? The firm should have in-house development teams.

3. Which clients have you dealt with before and of which industry?

If the web design company has worked with clients from industries like yours then it might be easier to work with them as they have already dealt with such orders and are well aware of the industry standards. How are the results measured? And also what were the reviews sent by the clients they worked with before. What is the definition of a successful web development project?

4. Will the website be responsive and do you provide SEO expertise?

Most of the visitors on your website will be accessing it through smartphones or tablets. Responsiveness is not an option but a necessity. The website should be able to customize itself according to the screens it is accessed on. Providing a good SEO expertise will get more traffic to your website and bring the website up in various search engines.

5. What is the size of the company and its structure?

The size of the company is proportional to the size of the team which will work on your project. If the team is small it can lead to delays and if the team is too large it can lead to lack of coordination between the designers and developers. The company should have a stable structure to help you trust them with working on your website. Which parts of the projects are produced in-house and which are outsourced?

CONCLUSION

Making sure to ask these questions before hiring a Web Design Company will guarantee you of receiving the best possible results and that too at an affordable price. Potential client's experience on your website should be hassle free. A website determines the presence of one's business in the virtual world.