7 Things you must consider before hiring a web developer

Techno World News | September 26, 2012 | Web Development | No Comments

Every business today owns a website to promote him across the world. If your business does not have a website then, it actually does not exist for millions of people. For purpose of their expansion and marketing, businesses contact companies which are specialized in this field. In these companies professional web developers work, who are actually software engineers. They use to be qualified in developing applications for World Wide Web (www) with help of different coding or scripting languages. Their duties include server maintenance, web development, programming, and release of software etc.

Besides companies some individuals are also associated with this field, they work alone mostly as contractual freelance web developers. You cannot trust all names working today as individual or a company, because many of them are not proficient in providing these services. Therefore it is important to consider some important factors before hiring a web developer for your website.

1. Qualification: web development business is easy to enter because of different helping tools or software which enables a lay man to write codes. Therefore before hiring a individual for purpose of developing website for your business, you must make sure that he is qualified in required field or not. Although with help of programs anyone can learn coding but professionalism comes with proper knowledge. A good web developer provides you with quality results because he has completed his degree in related area.

2. Experience: an experienced web designer can work more closely to assigned work than a fresh graduate or trainee. He has broader vision to eliminate all possible errors that occur while developing a site, in order to meet standards of business. A skilled web developer can provide you more than your expectation but for this you have to incur some heavy expanses once. To judge level of performance you can test the developer in assistance of experts.

3. Reputation: if you are hiring a well-known professional or company for the purpose of web development then there is no need to look at their portfolio or investigate about their background. Problem arises when you give chances to new people who are experienced but not famous for their work. Reason of low popularity is not always depraved previous performance, sometimes professionals try hard to prove themselves but they just did not get chance for this. Therefore it is important to check background or contact previous clients before hiring unfamiliar professionals.

4. Customer support: when you hire a company for purpose of web development, you have to make sure that they provide you with satisfactory customer support while working with you, and after completing their work as well. They should carry a relation with you to provide you after sale services, like dealers of electronics do. They should note your complains and must respond to you as soon as possible. This support is needed because developer of a particular website can easily resolve all issues related to that site as compared to any other. For this reason mostly businesses contact their previous developers for sake of assistance or guidance.

5. Creativeness: when a business hires are web developer then it uses to check portfolio and previously developed websites. But this thing never helps them in measuring the creativeness of developer. Creativity is an inborn factor which cannot be achieved through degrees, although knowledge broadens your vision but it is not clue to innovations. To judge creativity of developer, tests can be conducted. These tests can tell you how innovative ideas developer can bring for your website.

6. Understanding of Business: websites are developed for purpose of marketing or virtual presence of your business. When you are hiring a developer you must clearly mention the purpose of website and targeted audience to developer. Like this developer can construct your website in a way which appeals the audience and promote your business.

7. Cost: website development is not a low cost task, especially when you are hiring professionals for this purpose. Popular web development companies cost high for their services because they guarantee to provide extraordinary quality with less chances of errors and innovative techniques. When you hire a developer you must consider cost as an important factor. Quality of service merely depends on price you are paying for acquisition of a service.

You don’t have to follow the advice given above to the letter, but if you do there wont be any harm in that. The thing is before getting into anything, you must be fully informed on that particular area. I believe that the information given above is enough to know what to look for. If you still have any problems about this matter, you can contact the company or person you are hiring. Once you are clear on the matter of what you want, I assure you that making the decision will be a lot easier than it is now.

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