3 Ways To Avoid Being Bamboozled By Your Web Designer
3 Ways To Avoid Being Bamboozled By Your Web Designer
Planning that new website, but a little leery about some of the designer options you have available? It can be a scary thingmaking a commitment to follow one web designer's recommenced path versus the polar opposite proposed strategy of another can be quite daunting.
Who's right?
Which option will look better?
Which designer will produce better performing results?
Well, in the end, the only thing you can really do is weigh the options carefully and do your due diligence by checking a web designer's past work, references, and really getting a good understanding of how the process will work. Here are a few more ways to avoid being bamboozled by your web designer
One: Ask tons of questions upfront.
To the point of becoming slightly annoying even. Now this usually goes against intuition of being an easy person to do business with, and please don't confuse it with the need to pester your designers perpetually throughout the project even after all of the terms have been agreed upon and everything would seem to be A-Okay. But by being a little bit annoying upfront, you can test the designer's patience to see how well they answer questions and handle things when the going might get a little bit tough.
Two: Ask for numerically verifiable past results.
Any web designer can show you a few decent looking sites they've created recently. Don't settle with this aloneask to see some traffic stats on a handful of projects to see how the websites they build actually perform in the real world. The best looking site in the world is more or less worthless if it has no traffic producing capabilities. Ask for the numbers.
Three: Ask your designers what their system is.
There many great design software systems out there. Some truly excellent designers prefer to code by hand even. The bottom line is you want to get a feel that a designer has some kind of professional system in place that they've developed over the years. It doesn't necessarily matter too much what the specific details are as much as it does to see if a designer is really efficient in the way they create websites. In other words, you might not want to be the guinea pig for the new software the web designer has just purchased and decided to start learning this week.
Now these are just 3 quick things to look for right off the bat. To really get a feel for what kind of service your web designer will provide you with, you've got to think about this one and make a good list to interview them with. Due diligence pays dividends!