What You Should Look For in a Custom Website Builder
Lately I have had quit of few people contact me inquiring about possibly getting a custom website built for their business, and what I have discover is that a lot of people are new to the world of custom websites and what to look for in a custom website builder. So I decided that I would share a little bit of knowledge that I have on the topic. Searching for a custom website builder that fits the needs of your company is a lot like trying to choose the right real estate agent. So before diving straight into the selection phase, arm yourself with 5 basic questions to ask when reviewing companies.
5 Things To Question About Your Custom Website Builder
1) How Much Experience Do They Have?
Experience is king! It translates to high quality design and functionality practices and more importantly, no painful mistakes that cost, you the client, time and money. You want to know what skills do thy offer, skills like HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, Flash, Ajax, SEO, content writing, and graphics creation. The more of these skills that thy know on their own, the less time & money you will wast with them having to subcontract your custom website work to someone who has those skills. You should confirm that your candidate knows as much of the entire alphabet soup of protocols, web markup languages and coding utilities as possible.
2) What Is Their Availability & Do They Work Within A Timely Manner?
(Is your project their top priority at the time? How easily you get in contact with them?)
Let's be honest as a client,all of us want to know that our questions and concerns are going to be responded to in a timely manner. Additionally, we all want to know that our custom website projects are not getting put on the back burner due to an overwhelming workload, unrelated job issues, or overall not being prioritized. We all want to know if the person that I am spending my money with, has the attitude of making customer service a priority. If a custom website builder/developer is too busy to answer e-mails or phone calls, will they be able to keep the production schedule and project deadline? Most importantly, don't hire anyone won't explain unknown terminology, you have to communicate with this person about things that are important to the very survival of your business, so you need to be clear at all times.
3) How Is The Quality of The Work in Their Portfolio?
Take a look at their work and ask yourself, are the designs clean, functional, and user-friendly? Are they original designs or are they produced by some template software. How the websites they've built actually work. This is important if you're looking for a designer to build any type of interactivity for your website.
It is also important look at their portfolio because, most custom website builders design their business site when they're not working on paying jobs, so how their personal custom website looks isn't necessarily an indicator of their quality of work. In most cases they don't have tons of time to modify their business site, because they have a lot of paying clients, which is usually an good measure of the quality of work and experience of that custom website builder? So you have to judge for yourself, s if they have a good portfolio
4) Will They Help You Get Your Custom Website on the Top of Search Engines
(Will they continue to manage your custom website once it is completed)
In order to be accepted by the search engines, it is really significant to have an expert who will make sure your keywords, page formation, links, on page and off page SEO has been set up suitably. This will make sure that your website is search engine friendly as well as being visitor friendly. It can take months to correct the search ranking of a website that was poorly formatted originally. You want someone who is not only knowledgeable, but pays attention to detail and understands how to drive traffic and get conversions. Someone that will assure meta and title tags are added, and properly formatted, along with making sure copy for the webpage will comport with how search engine crawler bots read and index pages.
5) What Is Their Pricing Structure?
(How much will it cost you?)
Custom Website design costs can vary from $500 to thousands of dollars depending on the design and functional complexity of the site. Fair pricing for a professional custom website of 10-15 pages with the standard features runs all the way from $500 to $5000.To insure yourself of getting an accurate estimate of the cost of your future custom website, the first thing you want to do is sit down and determine what features you would like your custom website to have. For a full picture of all the costs involved in your project, ask for all the costs to be broken down on an invoice individually - domain name and hosting, graphic design work, marketing fees and web development and maintenance matters. If the job is large enough, you may have to place a deposit down, but you should have all payment terms worked out before work starts. You can work out an hourly rate, a flat fee or some combination of the two. Do not leave nothing unstated or assumed, get every detail in writing, including deadlines and how many revisions are included.
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5 Things To Question About Your Custom Website Builder
1) How Much Experience Do They Have?
Experience is king! It translates to high quality design and functionality practices and more importantly, no painful mistakes that cost, you the client, time and money. You want to know what skills do thy offer, skills like HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, Flash, Ajax, SEO, content writing, and graphics creation. The more of these skills that thy know on their own, the less time & money you will wast with them having to subcontract your custom website work to someone who has those skills. You should confirm that your candidate knows as much of the entire alphabet soup of protocols, web markup languages and coding utilities as possible.
2) What Is Their Availability & Do They Work Within A Timely Manner?
(Is your project their top priority at the time? How easily you get in contact with them?)
Let's be honest as a client,all of us want to know that our questions and concerns are going to be responded to in a timely manner. Additionally, we all want to know that our custom website projects are not getting put on the back burner due to an overwhelming workload, unrelated job issues, or overall not being prioritized. We all want to know if the person that I am spending my money with, has the attitude of making customer service a priority. If a custom website builder/developer is too busy to answer e-mails or phone calls, will they be able to keep the production schedule and project deadline? Most importantly, don't hire anyone won't explain unknown terminology, you have to communicate with this person about things that are important to the very survival of your business, so you need to be clear at all times.
3) How Is The Quality of The Work in Their Portfolio?
Take a look at their work and ask yourself, are the designs clean, functional, and user-friendly? Are they original designs or are they produced by some template software. How the websites they've built actually work. This is important if you're looking for a designer to build any type of interactivity for your website.
It is also important look at their portfolio because, most custom website builders design their business site when they're not working on paying jobs, so how their personal custom website looks isn't necessarily an indicator of their quality of work. In most cases they don't have tons of time to modify their business site, because they have a lot of paying clients, which is usually an good measure of the quality of work and experience of that custom website builder? So you have to judge for yourself, s if they have a good portfolio
4) Will They Help You Get Your Custom Website on the Top of Search Engines
(Will they continue to manage your custom website once it is completed)
In order to be accepted by the search engines, it is really significant to have an expert who will make sure your keywords, page formation, links, on page and off page SEO has been set up suitably. This will make sure that your website is search engine friendly as well as being visitor friendly. It can take months to correct the search ranking of a website that was poorly formatted originally. You want someone who is not only knowledgeable, but pays attention to detail and understands how to drive traffic and get conversions. Someone that will assure meta and title tags are added, and properly formatted, along with making sure copy for the webpage will comport with how search engine crawler bots read and index pages.
5) What Is Their Pricing Structure?
(How much will it cost you?)
Custom Website design costs can vary from $500 to thousands of dollars depending on the design and functional complexity of the site. Fair pricing for a professional custom website of 10-15 pages with the standard features runs all the way from $500 to $5000.To insure yourself of getting an accurate estimate of the cost of your future custom website, the first thing you want to do is sit down and determine what features you would like your custom website to have. For a full picture of all the costs involved in your project, ask for all the costs to be broken down on an invoice individually - domain name and hosting, graphic design work, marketing fees and web development and maintenance matters. If the job is large enough, you may have to place a deposit down, but you should have all payment terms worked out before work starts. You can work out an hourly rate, a flat fee or some combination of the two. Do not leave nothing unstated or assumed, get every detail in writing, including deadlines and how many revisions are included.
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