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Regardless of how superb your business plan, failure can still occur if your website is difficult to use for visitors, and/or you suffer from terrible website hosting (e.g. downtime / slow loading pages). When thinking about which web development company to choose, take a pencil and play ‘web development bingo’ - we judge a ‘full card’ to be web development outfits that at least touch upon the following issues when talking about your proposed new website:-
- your business plan - talking specifically in regards to what your intentions are - what’s the web development firm’s feelings about your idea ?
- importance of usability - so visitors are able to do things easily on the site
- issues of accessibility - so your website can be accessed by all, with the text clearly understood by the market the website is directed at
- SEO (or search engine optimization) - supplying your site great search engine rankings
- CMS (content mangement systems) - letting you edit the info on the website by oneself at any time
- site security - safety of sensitive data, and regular backups of data.
- web hosting - will the website design company host your website? If so, how about the servers? Are they using shared servers with 100s of other websites on the same server, or are they using managed servers?
- technical support and after-sales - will they be around to help your business once the website goes live? How much is tech support? What about site updates?
A good website design team will enlighten you on the above matters, and how they deal with them.
So how to locate a website development company in the first place? It’s better to get one in your location, so you can meet up with them and be reassured that they are a real company with a strong team behind them. In Google, type in a search term like “website design” plus your locality; for instance : website design derbyshire. This will supply you with a listing of website development companies in your location.
