Are you planning to hire a web development company for your new business or to re-develop and existing site?
Well, hiring a web development company can be one of the most critical hires for your company. For this team will be responsible how your company’s online presence performs! As your website will be the platform where your potential customers will final land upon and interact with you virtually.
So before making any commitments ask the web developer these following questions to save your time and money.
7 Essential Questions You Must Ask Web Developer
Is the whole development work done In-House?
Many design firms who are working in this field actually don’t have in-house development teams. This means, you will be probably communicating with a project manager and a virtual team of developers. Nothing wrong in that, if your project manager has proven project management skills and right expertise in executing an end-to-end digital marketing project.
If this project manager is a non-technical – non-marketing person, then don’t waste your time and money working with such company. As this may turn your web development project into a nightmare if anything goes wrong.
And if you still have to go with them, it is advisable to hire 3rd person expertise as a digital marketing consultant for strategic advisory.
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Will they build a Mobile Friendly, responsive site?
Responsive website allows your users to access it on almost every mobile devices like Smartphone, tablets and older phones. As around 50 % of all websites are being viewed on the mobile devices nowadays, this is an important factor.
In the layman’s terms, a web responsive site will change its design dimensionsaccording to the screen on which it is viewed.
Are there warranties and maintenance features? Other costs?
Any website available on the internet requires ongoing maintenance and support. As each and every day new updates, functionalities and viruses are coming over the internet. This means, your website which is working fine today, might stutter tomorrow.
It is the work of a web developer to maintain the website to make it available 24X7. And good developers provide warranty, maintenance plan, service plan and hosting charges while presenting the quote.
So make sure you are buying all these services along with your web development services.
How Will You Track The Success Of Website?
The success of website development depends on various factors. It might be in terms of site traffic, sale or conversion rate of your website. Make sure the firm whom you are associating provides you the options to track the success and analytics of the website in their contract.
Otherwise they might charge you for further analytical services.
What Will Be The Estimated Timeline For Your Project?
It is very important question to ask developer about how long it will actually take to build the site. An expert team of developers will provide you the exact estimated timeline and even deliver your site before deadline for further corrections. While a third party developer will probably get stuck when he’ll encounter new bugs and might miss deadlines.
“Any fool can write code that a computer can understand.
Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ”
– Martin Fowler
Will You Appoint A Dedicated Project Manager For Our Project?
Having a dedicated manager for your project ensures the timeliness of your project. The manager set up the timelines, schedules multiple meetings, review and organize different types of content, coordinate feedback, etc. In the absence of a project manager, your project might suffer as it will take more time to complete. Don’t forget, it’s the little things that cause the biggest delays.
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What Type Of Licensing You Will Use For Content Management System (CMS)?
The software you are developing for your website needs Content Management System. There are many options available on the market for CMS.
There is open source software is software that is developed and maintained by the developer community and it is free to use. Though there is a cost associated with the implementation of open source software.
And there is proprietary software that is owned by a specific company or organization. This coding used for such software might be that complex that only the creator knows how to implement and work on such software. This option is very expensive and risky one. If any problem occurs afterwards, then you’ll have to contact the concern company every time for fixing the issues. And such fixes cost a amount most of the times.
Most small and medium scale businesses rely on WordPress for their content management.
Ask these 7 questions to the Web Development Company before going further. This will save your precious time and money. Also don’t go for the cheapest offer, but go for the better offer.
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