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Practical advices: How to choose a website design agency

March 17, 2010
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According to artViper designstudio from Germany, professional web design says a lot about your company and the image you want to project.

Corporate web design is about visitor experience and answering questions quick, but also about absolute attention to creative thinking & technical excellence. Corporations should always aim to keep their websites as accessible as possible to not lock out impaired people.

Here are some practical advises, presented by artViper, on how to choose a web site design firm: 

1. Check the webdesign's companies own page for accessibility, html / css errors

2. Don't get fooled by a nice design only, check what kind of menus they use ( e.g. flash menus are really bad ), how their presentation is structured, how the page looks in different browsers and if the functionality provided works flawlessly

3. If you have a good webmaster or IT guru aboard, let him check simple things like input fields etc. against SQL injections, XSS vulnerabilities and alike.

4. Full services agencies can offer a lot of things at once, but not all are top in all fields, so make sure you get some specialists for the job you have in mind.

5. Don't overpay, but plan in a realistic budget. In webdesign it's like in many other jobs - you get what you pay for. Don't expect a hobby coder to deliver a website for 500$ that can cope with a professional designed & coded corporate website which might costs 10.000$ and more.

6. No traffic = no business - conduct traffic research for all phrases that relate to your niche

7. Conduct Competitive Research - know the strength & weak spots of your competitors before engaging in the design process. If you do not know how to do this, get yourself support from a professional web marketer.

8. Can you lead your web niche - do not contend in a well established web niche with a leader & underdog without serious advice.

9. On Page SEO planning - get advice from an search engine marketer as on page factors may have impact on your rank & cost you more in future. 

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