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How do I
choose the right website designer for my website?
Probably the
most important question of all. Choosing the right website designer for your
website, will determine the difference between success and failure.
If you should
type in "Website Designer" - pages from South Africa - in Google, you will
get +/- 5000 listings of different designers in South Africa alone. So which
one do you choose? All of them are the same, are they not? A website
Designer, is a website designer. NO NO NO, unfortunately not. Different
website designers, specializes in different kind of websites. There are also
different languages in which a website can be designed. Deciding on a
website designer, depends on what you want your website to do and how it is
done. The amount of pages your website will have will not influence your
decision, but more importantly the functionality of those pages.
Do you need a
content management system? Do you require just basic HTML? Do you want
images and text moving and flying over the screen using Flash? These are
very important questions, because you cannot expect a designer that
specializes in CMS, to give you the same result if you want a Flash website.
So what do you need? We get so many users sending us requests for a quote
and all they say is, I want a website.
The big
question is - What do you want your website to do? Once you can answer this
question, only then you should source a designer that specializes in your
requirements. Something else you should remember is that not all website
designers are graphic designers eg. You might see this very smart website on
the internet, its smart, the graphics are cool, wow, but the functionality
of the website does not work properly. You might find a website that looks
very clean, little images, straight forward, but the functionality of the
website and the code in which it is written is so perfect, that it can win
an award.
Finding the
designer in between is the most difficult. The person that can design the
wow website and the functionality of the website works perfectly.
O' yes,
something else. It doesn't really matter where the website designer is
based. You can even get a person in China to design your website, as long as
he/she can speak English of course....joke. No seriously. With the internet
and email today, communication is not a problem and sometimes it even works
better as than sitting in a meeting face to face scratching on a piece of
paper, where you can not really see the full effect. We usually suggest that
you supply us with a website that has the same functionality as what you
want and then a few samples of other websites that you like the look and
feel of.
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