subject: Judge The Website Designer And Developer Before You Handover Your Web Project [print this page] When you hire a website designer/developer (or a web company) for creating online identity for your organization you should enquire carefully about his professional skills so that your web project gets accomplished as per your expectations and dreams. What you need is to judge him on following fronts.
Past work- Ask him to show his original works and enquire if he has done any work related to your field. If yes, then it becomes easy to judge his suitability for your work. If not, then you will have to work a little more. You must ask to show for variations in his past works. If he has developed websites for companies dealing in various goods/services and the quality is superb, then you can rely on him for your web project.
Cost- As you have options to choose vendor of your choice, you must compare the quotes offered by them. What you need to do is to hire a person or a company whose price offering is best but that should not be done at the cost of quality. It means you must keep in mind both quality and the cost. You can do this very easily by comparing the works and cost presented by different vendors.
Time- Different vendors can offer different time framework to accomplish your work. You should examine this keeping in mind the features you want in your website or the type of website (static or dynamic, CMS or E-Commerce, Portal or Directory) you need for your organization. Sometimes, it happens designer/developer takes unnecessary time due whatever reason to finish the project but ultimately your project suffers. Hence, compare the nature of your work with the time limit presented by different vendors. You can ask them to present time framework in break-ups to develop different features of your website. And you must ask the vendor for assurance to complete the project on time.
Maintenance- You must ask designer/developer to provide maintenance for your website. As it forms a part of the service you have asked for. Any kind of bug, test or future problems regarding the functionality of the website must be tackled by the service provider.
Keeping in mind the above factors you should allow a professional web designer/developer to work on your project. You must also ask to provide the vendor an assurance certificate/agreement detailing the quality of work he is promising and that too on time. In this way you can legally expect him to do as per your expectations and to create a website of your dream.
