Quotation
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing - Walt Disney
How to choose a web designer
We encourage clients who are considering commissioning their first web site to carefully consider and evaluate any proposals you receive. There are plenty of low cost, low value website options that will provide you with an unreliable and ineffective web presence. We suggest that you consider the following key questions:
- Will the site navigation and structure be usable?
- Will the site be accessible by all of your customers?
- Will the site be reliable and always available?
- Will the site be findable by search engines?
- Will the site design be consistent with existing branding?
- Will the site message be compelling?
- Will the site content be easy to update?
- Will the site be secure?
- Will the site provide a return on investment?
Save now - Pay later
We've all done it. You buy a cheap product and service and then regret it later. Not only is the money you have already spent completely wasted, but in the case of web design you have to consider the lost revenue from an under-performing website. Consider these all too common mistakes made by cheap web designers:
- Omitting alt and title attributes
- Using cheap, unreliable shared hosting
- Ignoring typography and visual weight of text
- Layout breaks when resized
- Site fails to render correctly on iPhone/BlackBerry
- Site blacklisted due to 'black hat' search tricks
- Ignoring legal issues around accessibility
- Sloppy approach to security
- No meaningful warranty of work