subject: Web Design Service: What To Look Out For In The Sample Websites Of A Web Designer [print this page] Your website represents your business and all you have to offer. Since you are not physically present to convince your potential clients on what you have to offer them; your website should speak volume of your business both in layout and content. There is therefore, the need for you to contract a professional web design service provider that will create website to suit your business needs.
Undoubtedly, there are great website designers that you can find online; but since you cannot tell who is skillful in web designing by the mere sound of the name, you need something substantial and evidential to support the claims of expertise by any web designing outfit. The most important tool of a website design service provider to check is the portfolio; and what you should be concerned with in such portfolio is the sample websites contained therein.
In verifying the suitability of a web design service provider company; you should check the websites in the portfolio for basic functionalities and standard features. The things to look out under basic functionalities include aesthetic value, navigation techniques, flexibility of the site (what happens to the site when users decide to alter the window size of their computers), flexibility in terms of browser type (can the site run in different versions of browsers outside the internet explorer) and also the ability of the site to load fast. You should also search for the website or couple of them to see their ranking in the search result of the natural search engines.
In testing for the standard design features of a website in the portfolio of your potential web designer; you should verify how easy it is to load the site in any browser and also whether it is less difficult to update. There should be consistency in the quality of the features you are trying to verify in the sample websites.
As mentioned earlier, a good website should be viewable by different browser types; if the sample websites in the portfolio of your potential web design service provider keeps on indicating that the sites are better viewed using a particular browser, then you have to reconsider. These unfriendly messages indicating the inflexibility of the website is usually seen on the home page and such messages do not create good impression to the visitor. A portfolio that is sound technically and otherwise holds hope for a potential website owner and such website design company deserve commensurate pay for the unparallel service it is capable of delivering.
Carrying out the above listed tests on the sample sites in the portfolio of a web design service provider is the best way to ascertain if your own site will function optimally when designed by such website designer. A web designer that passes these and other tests should be considered capable of delivering results and therefore should be compensated adequately at the completion of the job.
