It can be daunting to decide whether or not you want to build a website. It is not easy to choose a reliable and qualified company to help you realize your dream. integrative is a web design and development company that has been in Asheville since 1999. Many of our clients have horror stories about their previous companies.
To ensure your website is in good hands, here are 7 things you should look for in a web development and design company.
- Portfolio & Case Study s – These can reveal a lot about the quality and diversity of work done by a company as well as the results of their projects.
- Price- Package or Custom- cost is an important consideration when choosing a company to build your website. While the expression “you get what your pay for” is true for websites, it doesn’t necessarily mean you should build custom. Products such as integritive’s website offer a professional design within a modular framework that allows small businesses to save money while still meeting their specific needs.
- Referrals & Reviews- Reviewing Google+, Facebook, and Yelp reviews can give you insight into a company’s customer services as well as the process and delivery of projects. Although testimonials on a website may be biased towards the business, third-party reviews can provide valuable insight into the company’s customer service and project delivery. Keep in mind that reviews from customers can be biased. Read more than one!
- More than a Skeleton Team – A full-service agency does more than just provide more people to complete projects quickly. This also means that there is creative collaboration across many departments. This collaboration ensures that websites have ideas and strategies from multiple perspectives, not only from a design or development standpoint but also from marketing and content editors. The site will be well-rounded and achieve the customer’s goals.
- A Strategy that Measures Results- Each step in a project should begin with the question, “What do we want to accomplish with this?”
- This will ensure that the project doesn’t just look good or provide information but also provides tangible results for the client.
- Additional Services- Although you may not require them initially, you might need them later on in your project. You can concentrate on what is most important, your business, by choosing a company that offers all of these services. Your website partner can handle the rest.
Ongoing Support & Maintenance- Even though you intend to make all content changes yourself, a company offering ongoing maintenance and support will ensure that you have someone to help you if something goes wrong.
These 7 tips will help you distinguish between a great website and one that you don’t love.