Slyefa
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 Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 12:45 pm Post subject: A Guide to Effective And Affordable Web Design |
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Sometimes, quality web design can be extremely expensive. However, this does not always have to be the case. Quality web design that does provide better value for the dollar spent can be found with a little bit more work. To help, here are a few easy strategies you can use to obtain web design that is both effective and affordable.
The first step to this process is creating a budget for your website. This budget should be realistic and something you or your business can actually afford. This will help guide you in finding the right web designer. Certain web designers may be out of your budget, but that's OK.
Secondly, you will need to find a web designer that is affordable and fits within the parameters of your budget. One excellent group to consider is design students. These students are likely to be hungry for work. Getting something to list on their resumes or in their portfolios may be more important to them than charging a lot of money for their work.
To find such a web designer, you can look through websites, online listings or social media. However, obtaining recommendations from others you know with successful websites may also produce some good prospects. Whatever the case, you need to find someone with demonstrated talent willing to work closely with you on the project.
While looking over a designer's previous work is important, you need to do more than that to obtain the effective design you want. One good way to do this is by finding websites that emulate the look and functionality you want for your website. Showing these to the designer can help guide that designer while he or she works on your site.
You should be very specific about what you want on your site. For example, if you want your landing page to implement flash, you obviously need to explain this to the designer as well as how you want those flash elements to work. You should also be specific about what you don't want on your website.
The key to obtaining the web design you want is collaboration. The lines of communication between you and the designer should be open during all stages of the process. Whoever you choose must be very open to your input.
If a designer web development, you should probably look for someone else. You are unlikely to get what you truly want from a designer that is closed minded and hard to collaborate with. Even worse, such a person may be resistant to changes to the design if he or she produces something you are not happy with.
Despite what you may have heard, effective web design does not have to be expensive. It is indeed possible to find affordable designers you can collaborate with to produce the look and functionality you want for your webpage. |
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