Now-a-days choosing a web development company is difficult for most businesses.
There are two reasons to get confused to select a website development company to the business:
1. Most business owners don’t understand about the technology options where websites are concerned. It’s tough to keep up with the ever-changing technology in any industry, but especially so if it’s not your own.
2. Choosing a web developer is difficult is that the web development industry is very fragmented. There are non-programmers who put sites together using templates. There are graphic designers who have learned to do some programming, but they are not the greatest programmers. There are programmers who don’t do good graphic design. Then there are Search Engine Optimization (SEO) professionals who also develop websites. All of them have different opinions about which technology platform to use, which is confusing. And, they offer a wide range of price points.
Below are seven key steps to help you choose the right web development company.
1. Before taking decision to select a web development company first research about the technologies that which you know or not known and get conclusion which one is securable technology. Right now I am hearing about web developers created sites with blog utilities like Word Press. Word Press has website design templates and content management systems that are relatively easy to use.
2. Talk to marketing and technology professionals in your network. Whom are they using? Where they responsive? Technologically savvy? Innovative, so that when a new need or a problem came up they found a solution? What is the company’s core expertise – web design, programming, blogging, SEO.
3. Look at the sites from several perspectives Design (web and page layout), performance (speed, all pages working), ease of navigation, etc. Don’t just view the home page of the sites and move on to the next one. Spend some time navigating through different options, viewing different media.
4. Provide a website update plan that details your objectives, the site architecture, and the planned page content. Have the web development company base their proposal on the plan. When you receive the proposal, ask whether or not it addresses your specifications for the site? Did the web developer question anything in your specification? Did they make new recommendations based on their experience developing other sites?
5. Ask the web development company’s clients how well they liked working with the web development company? Did they respond to requests in a timely manner? Did they complete the project within budget? Did they complete the project on-time? Does the site generate the results they wanted? If the site has a content management feature that allows the owners to maintain web site content, how easy is it to use?
6. Make sure you get commitments about number of pages, features, timeline and cost in writing before you start the project. Don’t pay the entire cost upfront. Make two to three payments based on milestones such as web site design approval, content upload, testing/go live.
7. In my experience, the number one delay in web development projects is content. Have a plan and a deadline for creating content and make sure you meet it. Armed with a website plan and timeline, great content, and a great web developer, you will be more likely to have success with your next website project.
Here is one web development company called Softlogic. Softlogic is a rapidly growing web development company offers web design, marketing and web development services using PHP, Smarty, Zend Framework and open source customizations like Joomla, X-cart, Zen Cart, OS Commerce, Magento Commerce, WordPress etc.
Softlogic offers Content Management Solutions (CMS), Social Networking Solutions, and Custom Shopping Carts at affordable prices with high quality.
