Introducing the Holistic Approach to Web Development
Irrespective of how good your business strategy, failure can still occur if your website is difficult to use for visitors, and/or you struggle with poor website hosting (e.g. slow loading pages or downtime). When thinking about which website design team to opt for, you should play ‘website development bingo’ – we consider a ‘full card’ to be web design companies that mention the following areas when talking about your planned new site:-
- your business plan – discussing specifically in terms of what the business goals are – what’s the web design company’s impression of your idea ?
- importance of usability – website visitors are able to perform things easily on your site
- accessibility issues – so your site is able to be accessed by everybody, with content understood by the intended target market
- search engine optimisation – supplying your site solid search engine rankings
- content management – letting you add/amend/delete info on the website by oneself at any given time
- site security – safety of sensitive data, with at least daily backups of data.
- web hosting – will the web design firm host the website? If so, what about their servers? Are they using shared servers with potentially thousands of other sites on the same server, or do they have their own servers?
- support and after-sales – will they support your business once the website goes live? How much is tech support? Do they offer website updates?
A good website design firm will inform you of the preceding matters, and how they deal with them.
How to discover a website design company in the first place? It’s advisable to find one close to you, so you can meet up with them and be assured that they are a bricks and mortar firm with a good team behind them. On a search engine, type in a search term like “website design” plus your locality; for example : web design nottingham. This will give you a listing of website development outfits in your locality.
