Techniques for choosing a web development company

A website will play’s an integral part of your business. Whether you are going to design a website for a new business or simply redesigning the existing one, hiring decision for its designing and development seems to be very much important for the website success. We know that today so many web development companies are available both online and offline as well; but determining the right fit for your project is somewhat a difficult process. So the hiring process of a web development firm is very much important and it should be carried just as hiring an employee.

The website acts as a window to the world of business. The website that is going to be designed by the web development company will play an important part in a company in order to achieve the desired marketing goals. The companies will approach you by offering variety of claims regarding to your project. Therefore identifying the right components of each company should be clearly understood.

Services offered

Normally a web development company provides services like web designing, developing, hosting, copywriting, e commerce solutions, digital marketing services like SMM, SEO and other kinds of management related services. It is very important to notice that never assume a company that is good in one services will note be good in other. Most of the development companies are now offering digital marketing services but doesn’t stick on them.

Custom web design and themes

Most of the companies offer both two types of services to their clients according to their needs. Most of them go for unique look and functionalities while the rest of them go for templates to customize and save money.

Provide portfolio

By looking the previous portfolio of the company, we will be able to find the previously created websites of the company and can evaluate their diversity. It would be easy to understand the performance of the websites developed by them by just looking their portfolio.

Case studies to showcase results of a web design

A website is much more than creating an online presence of a business. It should get a return on their investment and should deliver business results. The case studies will help you to get specific results like online sales, conversion rate for a certain time period etc.

Strategies for revenue for your site

The company you selected for your project should be concerned about generating revenue for your website also. They are responsible for providing a complete list of strategies that can be quite helpful for generating revenue for your site. It is also very important that these result oriented strategies should match with the goals.

Reviews on your current website

First of all find out a company that has the ability to analyze the current site’s metrics and then evaluate the strength and weakness of the current site.

Comparison with competitors

The most important thing that should be noted while choosing a company for your web development project. This is a good practice because if the company has created websites that is quite similar to that of your website, then they will be aware of your competitors.

Handling projects

A web development project undergoes several steps before the site is being launched on web. While evaluating a particular company make sure that who will be the specific person you should keep in touch with, the timelines for different phases of the project development, the way of getting the project report and also details about the project management system.

Required time

It includes the time required to analyze the market, competitors and business. A proper planning about the website is the primary key to ensure success. It involves many steps like researching in the market, before planning the content structure, elements etc.

Knowledge about developers

Make sure that you know every individual in the team working on your website project. Also it is very much important to understand the experience level of the project development team.

Time limit

Usually the deadline of a project depends upon the amount of effort and work need. It should be clearly discussed with the team.

Number of pages

Search engines love the websites that has large in number and rich content. Normally a website has about us, Contact us, FAQ, Terms and condition, blogs etc and other business related services pages on their website depending upon their business.

Website logo

It is necessary to provide texts, images and other necessary things of your business to the web development company. Always ask them whether they can create web content by their own with the help of company’s content writers. 

You can also demand appealing logo for your website. Analyze their experience in this logo designing and also check previously created logos by them.

Images

Providing real images is always better for your business, but you do not have these kinds of images, ask the firm for providing that by accessing the public domain images.

Price

Pricing structures are of two types.

1. Flat project price

2. Hourly price

The real price depends upon experience, expertise and scope of the project. The second thing that should be asked for are the things that are included in the pricing list.

Compatibility

Find the most important factor, that is whether the site is compactable for smart phones and also check whether they are responsible or not.

SEO for websites

Check whether they provide SEO for the websites they develop. Having the write keywords on every page will be very much beneficial for the website ranking. Always ask the developing company about the details of providing SEO and SEM services.

CMS

Ask about the content management system they are providing to verify whether it is custom built or not. Verify that the web based system should support the wordpress and other platforms.

Web standards and practices

They should follow latest designing trends and proper web development standards for each project. The website should function in all browsers and all operating systems.

Before hiring a web designing company you should always ensure that you get a result-oriented partner that will help you get the desired results.

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