Avoid these hiring mistakes: If you ask any experienced business owner how the development of his website went? either his face color will change to show angriness or he will start yelling his web development teams. I will show you what are the common mistakes most of the clients do while selecting a web development company. Before I move forward to the exact agenda, I give you a quick overview of a web development agency.
What is a web development company?
A web development company works with its customer and help from start to finish in website creation and application development services. In other words, a web development agency designs and codes websites & applications for online use. This covers everything that is deployed on google play store, AppStore, and on the web.
What do web development companies do?
design, create and maintain websites and web applications and most of the web development agencies do apps development as well.
Decide what type of website you need?
Are you going to sell widgets/virtual services? you need an eCommerce website.
Do you have a school? You need a public school website, or school management software to manage your school both are different things.
Do you need a copy of Google, Facebook, or Amazon? Please note these are the multibillion-dollar infrastructure website with several data centers.
E-commerce brings a few strategic and mechanical difficulties. The organization you recruit should have experience working in this space. You may ask for a demo also, check if the same company has a digital marketing team with a proven record of generating business leads, you are good to go.
If you wish to change website content yourself. You must go for CMS (Content Management System). See what features of a content management system we offer for our customers here. if you don’t take CMS, you will have to pay them again and again for each update.
Ask them where your business website will be hosted? if you choose the wrong hosting company your site will remain down most of the time. so keep these factors in mind.
Determine your compatibility.
Hiring a web development company means you are going to hire a technology partner that will work with you for many years. If you do a little bit of research it will save your time & money of switching one technology partner to another. Find out how web development companies take care of their customers by reading google reviews, online business listings, or asking them to provide you the contact of their existing customers in your country if they have any.
Determine the level of support do you need.
Check out turn around time of the web development company you are going to hire. Each company has its own support models designed, Hourly, Weekly, and monthly basis, select the right support package as per your own need.
Attention to details
I have seen many businesses making announcements for launching their websites. When the launch date comes. I get surprised their website just has a logo and phone number on it.
On social media when you make such announcements make sure your website doesn’t have so many coming soon pages or showing 404 errors. (Epic fail.)
Incomplete website descriptions, titles, broken links will harm your website SEO. Make sure the web development company you have hired is doing proper quality assurance of your website. Please don’t hire a single freelance developer who is not going to cover these all. Whenever freelancers get stuck, they block your number and never reply to you back.
As web development company, we also provide WordPress web designer and developer services, please check them out as well.
7 Factors Which Contribute To The Total Cost of Website Development
Website Design:
It costs you one time and depends on the number of pages you need. if you select a ready-made design theme, you can skip this part. Most of the good web development agencies offer ready-made themes to save design time & cost.
Website Development:
Its a procedure of Converting design to a workable website through coding. Also, one time cost until you ask to update or add a new feature.
Quality Assurance & Project Management:
Cost of these QA and PM is charged by good web development companies, small companies or single freelancer don’t charge this and don’t give you this service. If you have selected a company that is not doing QA in that case you have to perform testing by yourself and that is a big headache.
Deployment:
Mostly good companies offer it free of cost if you hire them for website development.
Hosting:
Its On-Going cost charged depending on your package i.e: 1 year, 2 years, 3 years etc. This is the most important factor, the best hosting you choose the less downtime you will face. Never forget to buy add on like code guard (to protect your code from hackers) or code backup services. These suggestions and tips will be given to you by only professionals and good web development companies, amateurs won’t point these factors out.
Ongoing Website Support:
Web development agency offers you support in the form of a weekly, monthly, or hourly basis you can select on the basis of your needs. These prices may vary as every company works in differing business models.
Disaster Support:
Sometimes due to hosting upgradations some features on your website or entire website stops working, in that case, if you have the traffic coming to your website you cannot afford its downtime. Ask for your technology partner about emergency support and charges.
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