What You Should Know Before You Hire a Website Designer

• You should be the owner of your domain name.

• Some web designers take advantage of customers who know little about how websites work by purchasing the domain names themselves and then charging a fee for their use. They may even hold the site hostage by increasing their rates and forcing you to pay (or else lose your domain name). Purchase your domain name BEFORE you hire a designer, and then have the designer create a site for the domain name.

• Know what you want.

• Your web designer can help bring your vision to fruition . . . but you must at least have a vision. What do you need out of your site? For example, will you be maintaining a blog, creating an online catalog, using a virtual shopping cart, or hosting a forum? These are things you need to know about your site before you commission someone to create it.

• Experience equals reliability.

• There are many fly-by-night web designers who do their work as a hobby or side job. While they may be able to create great-looking and functional websites, you can’t necessarily count on them to stay in the business. That means you could end up with a website and no back-end support for when you decide you need to make changes to it. Hire a designer who has a time-proven reputation, and who is most likely to stick with your website for the long haul.

• What you can expect to spend.

• Depending on your needs, the cost of web design can vary greatly. Therefore, it pays to interview a number of web designers before settling on one. Give a detailed list of your wants and needs, and get the specifics of what each is including in the bid, in order to weigh each estimate out and make the best choice.

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