3 Things to check before buying a website design.

Not everyone is proficient when it comes to web design and computer coding which is one of the most common  reasons why businesses choose to pay a professional designer or a firm to do the web design for them. However it is always better to be involved in the process of creating a website for your business. The cost of getting a professionally designed website is not cheap. Therefore, you'd want to make sure that you are getting what you pay for and that the end product is one that fills your online business needs.Even without the coding knowledge or web design know-how, there are still things you can do to make sure that you are getting  the best deal.

1. Make sure that the website is designed to meet the requirements of your business.

• During the initial process of website development, the designer / firm will consult with you to find the things that you need for your website as well as your visual tastes. It is best to be prepared for this stage since it is the most important meeting throughout the development process. The results of the initial consultation is where everything will revolve and be based on.
• Do a bit of a research on your competitor websites and see what aspects or processes of their website you like and tell the designer how you want to incorporate those into your own website.

2. Check if the designer / firm will provide you with an easy to use CMS ( Content Management System )

• CMS is a very important part in web design. It allows you to make changes or updates to your own website yourself, when it's up and running without having to learn coding. Most designers or firms that don't offer CMS in their web design plans require you to send the changes to them manually and to pay an hourly rate for them to edit your existing website. A few of the common let-downs of this is  when you need to make changes to your site outside of their working hours or if you need to make multiple updates on a daily basis which would be expensive.
• Being able to make changes or updates to your site yourself will greatly improve the performance of your website later on and will help you serve your customers better.

 3. Responsiveness or Mobile Compatibility

• The website design world have gone through a rapid makeover these past few years due to the quick increase of mobile phone and tablet users. Now more than 50% of eCommerce traffic is from mobile devices. Websites that are still non-responsive will not work well on a mobile device. The most common problem is the way the pages are displayed on the much smaller screens of mobile phones and tablets. Text and images are usually to small to read or  are sometimes cut off from the screen. This makes the user experience terrible and would result with them leaving your website.
• A good responsive web design will make sure that your website can be viewed and used easily on mobile devices. This will make your website mobile friendly and can improve your ranking on search engines like google and can even put you ahead of the competition.

by:masterofvectors
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