The reason you would hire a website designer is professionally complete bespoke projects on a regular basis. As a London website designer myself I know all factors and processes involved I’m getting the desired end result. What is the end result you are looking to receive? Are you a small business and is your online exposure critical to your livelihood? You really need to decide why you’re getting the website in the first place. If it is to make a lasting impression on your customers and to improve your internet marketing presence. Then hiring a web designer should be high on your priority. Because if you compromise now the quality of your website you could compromise on future customers. So you could go and seek out cheap web design services and be left in a worse position than you are now. If you really want to take advantage of having your brand online it might be worth to hire a graphic designer and web developer. Of course, when hiring any of these technicians it’s important to check their credentials and maybe even courses they have completed. Depending on the types of courses they’ve taken should determine their salary and hourly rate that you will have to pay. Should you hire a web designer full-time or part-time or on a contract. Most individuals and businesses will hire on a contract basis. This means the company will provide a quote and then honour that price through a contract. You only really need a full-time designer if you’re planning on creating 8 to 10 pages a day on your website. Now the most people that is definitely not the case and they don’t need that type of mass page building. Also even with building out 10 pages a day a lot of the styling and CSS can be done in advance. Unless the company really wanted bespoke and custom-built frameworks. Hiring someone on a part-time basis may be more beneficial uploading for new pages a day as getting individual quotes for all this work can not only be time-consuming but not affordable. Many web design agencies will hire freelancers on a part-time or contract basis to be able to deal with large workloads. You do really want to creative and boutique style website you should really go to a company that specialises in this. That company will have very experienced and qualified web designers that are paid good salaries and therefore giving your web Project the attention it deserves. Some of the qualities that you should be looking for when hiring. You should be looking for someone who is punctual this means you know when they’re going to finish the Project. Also, they should be available, there’s nothing worse then shepherding unavailable freelancers. Most freelancers consider themselves digital Nomads this isn’t what you want with your product as they will miss deadlines and aren’t available for when you’re looking to provide input. The number of customers that have chosen to go with Advance Agency because we offer brilliant support and we ensure we’re available to chat and give our clients reassurance. Whether we’re helping them out with hosting, the WordPress website simply retrieving logins. We’re always on hand to be able to help them out in any way we can. Hiring someone also allows you to bounce ideas off each other, they have the expertise on how to implement the ideas. And you have the ideas for your business or individual aspirations. So with a combined effort you make a brilliant team and should be able to reach the objective you set out. Where should you look to hire them, you can look on Gumtree or you could use Google as their algorithm is built to provide you with the best results possible. So most of the time they will feed you credible companies that are worthy of reaching out to. You could even go to web developer schools and try an and engage with passionate university students that could do with the money and also have the relevant experience to deliver and what you’re looking for. There is obviously problems involved with this as firstly locating someone punctual enough to complete the project in good time and juggle their university work. There’s a countless amount of courses in London if you went to the course provider and ask for someone who’s experienced enough to complete the project I’m sure they’ll have a list of students that are capable in executing something like this. But my opinion it’s best to stay away from the WordPress website builders if you don’t have the relevant experience to control them and create a safe and secure website.
Especially if you’re going to go down that you commerce route you should have a specialised technician who’s done many of these types project before. Due to the nature this type of project and the sensitive details that are processed, it’s important it’s professionally done. If you need help with any of these types of design and development projects please reach out to our London based team and we can help you out.