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You have decided that your business needs a complete web make over, but how do you go about choosing a business or freelancer to create the new website for you? With so many factors to consider, we give you just a few of the more important aspects you need to look at before deciding which company to award your project to.
Freelance or Business
The first thing you need to decide is are you going to use a freelancer or a business to do your project. Both have pros and cons; the freelancer might be able to give you a more personalized experience and be cheaper than hiring a business, but on the flip side the freelancer may not have all the necessary skills to complete your project and there is less accountability - if they fail to do your project it's easier for them to disappear than it is for a business. A long term relationship would also be easier with a business than with a freelancer.
Location
The location of the freelancer or web development company plays a vital role. You have three options, onshore, which usually means hiring your local web company, offshore, which usually involves a country on the other side of the world and near-shore which is a new term and tries to balance the cost savings with ease of communication. Often the determining price will be the cost. If an offshore company can do your entire project within your budget, but an onshore company can only do a fraction of it then it makes sense to use the offshore company. However, if the onshore company can complete your project within budget then it's usually recommended to go with the local option.
Price
There is some confusion when it comes to price - especially when using an offshore web development company. In short you get what you pay for. If one company is charging a few dollars per hour but most of the other companies are charging more then you should ignore the cheap price - there is probably a reason they are so cheap. Conversely you don't want to pay more than you have to, if a company is quoting very high then you'll likely get the same service as the mid-priced companies so this can be discounted too.
Clients
Before you sign a contract or hand over any money it is essential that you browse through past projects the company claims to have worked on. Even taking a moment to email some of the website owners to ask for an opinion on the company you plan on choosing can save huge amounts of headaches in the long run. A web development company will say anything to win clients (particularly offshore ones!) so you will only get the true story by talking to past clients. If the company doesn't list any client websites then take it as a bad sign and move on!
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Posted : 20/04/2011 2:31 pm
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You can even look for the past work done by the company and the response of the clients as to know the level of expertise of the company in relation to your needs.
Posted : 25/04/2011 7:26 am
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Also, web development companies need to have a deep knowledge in newest web technology and trends in order to help their customers set up the most appropriate and secure websites for their business.
Posted : 27/04/2011 10:52 am
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Nice and informative post thanks for sharing.
Posted : 27/04/2011 11:02 am
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If you want a better and overall an organic work, there are four things that you should consider before choosing a web development company. First is the design format, you should know what format you want, if its flash or HTML, or both, then choose a company that offers or does those things. Second is website CMS platform or the content management system. Third is the website layout, a successful website might in come all shapes and sizes. and lastly search engine optimizaztion, SEO is another factor that you should weigh in before choosing a web company. Website design companies should give more effort on SEO so that the other three things will not go to waste. 😀
Posted : 26/06/2011 5:07 am
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Nice tips. On my own opinion, look at their own website and sample works so that you can think if the Web Company is good 🙂
Posted : 04/07/2011 5:38 am
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Good Sharing ! A good Web Development Company should provide best web services in reasonable cost, and also provide attractive offers, which can attract clients.
Posted : 06/07/2011 7:35 am
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The acceptable web development company expands the website with a lot of contempo technologies. If a company has website in an adorable address again it will actually attract added customers. So choosing the web development company than the free lancer is the best option.
Posted : 07/07/2011 9:16 am
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Nice post. This would really help me in selecting good web development company for my website.Thanks for sharing
Posted : 12/07/2011 6:12 am
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Great ideas! I'm so thankful that you shared a lot about how to choose a good web development company. This will be really a very big help for me. Keep up the good work. Thanks. 🙂
Posted : 15/07/2011 6:15 am
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Great tips!
Yes, it's always best to check out the company's website and take a look at their clients and sample works and testimonials.
Posted : 15/07/2011 7:58 pm
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When choosing a concern to work for you, be sure that that company matches your requirements. Companies having well reputation and expert technical stuffs to service global enterprises, may have an overwhelming on smaller business firms. So, you have to do some research work about that company. You also can ask them for their previous reports of their other clients. Well, nice sharing. Thanks for this.
Posted : 16/07/2011 11:53 am
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Good to see this particular placement from your side. Its beena good visit for all of us, as quite useful info is provided here. Hope that you will place more content very soon on this platform
Posted : 21/07/2011 12:24 am
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Great thread, I really appreciate you participating:)
Super like !!
Posted : 11/08/2011 7:36 pm
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A good web development company should develop websites with latest technologies relevant in the internet marketing and also complete all the requirements of its customers at reliable and affordable prices.
Posted : 19/12/2011 5:12 am
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