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Looking for a Barnsley Web Design company?
Here’s a few quick guide to finding the right one for you:
- Have a chat – talking is FREE and talking to a local expert in web design can help to clear your mind in terms of what you are looking to gain out of your website. It’s important to approach a web designer with your ideas already prepared, even if you just have a rough idea of what you’re after. There’ll be tea or coffee, or perhaps some biscuits in the meeting. If you’re outside of Barnsley, say Sheffield or Leeds then arrange an initial telephone conversation or Skype call to get some initial ideas down on paper then meet up in person to finalise your requirements. A good Barnsley web design company will be capable of taking your initial ideas and transforming them into something wonderful in terms of web design. Use their expert knowledge and experience of what works and add your unique flavour. I’m sure the end result will be fantastic.
- Consider the long-term working relationship – I’ve seen lots of web design companies who don’t know much about the marketing side of things and this leaves their clients at a disadvantage. Unless the web design company that you’re considering using as a close working relationship with an online marketing company or has grow large enough to combine both web design and online marketing, then this could be a disadvantage going forward. It’s often difficult in practice, for different professionals, each with conflicting views to advise you on the best way forward. Having a unified view and working together with some kind of synergy is the cornerstone of any successful online strategy. Collaboration is certainly possible when discrete companies are being used but there must always be a sole decision making and project management force. Internet Marketing Platinum is an agency that works much like this and can put large teams of companies and freelancers together for large projects. This means that you get the very best specialists in their fields but organised and put together in perfect union.
- Know that web design changes – I’ve been in the industry over 12 years now and I’ve deployed and trained upon many content management systems (CMSs) for clients. In my time, I’ve seen website handed over to clients and either not updated correctly or not at all. Training becomes forgotten and what was once a beautiful vision of an evolving web design implementation and what should have been the basis of a well-established online presence, become what is essentially a failed project. Lots of web designers can talk the talk in an initial strategy meeting then put all of the blame on a client when the website isn’t performing in a years time…10 months after it went live. in my experience, clients needs on-going assistance and maintenance in their mission to promote their website online. Websites aren’t their area of specialism so why would you simply hand a website over to them with logins to the CMS and leave them to go it alone. Eyes are, most certainly, taken off the ball when this happens. Choose a Barnsley web design company who will work with you throughout the project…which is ongoing unless you really do just want a simple brochure site which never changes. In which case your options in which Barnsley web design company to use will be much broader than if you want to produce a lead generating website that works for you.
