How to Find a Good Web Designer
Designing a creative and clean website takes a lot of time and skill, which is why searching for the right web designer can be a difficult task. Firstly, I’d advise you to do a bit of research into the fields you need covered, whether it’s just website design or maybe you want some other aspects covered, such as search engine optimisiation (SEO) or copywriting. These are all terms that you should be familiar with, not an expert with but know the very basic so you can communicate with your web designer or agency effectively.
Once you’ve researched the basics of the areas you need covered, you can start looking for web designers or agencies, this will depend on the scale of your project; if want a small website designed for personal use a personal designer would be ideal. However, if you are starting a business, an agency would be best because they can offer you anything from web design to online marketing. Contact the web designers you are interested in and make notes on what they can offer and for what price, compare all of these and choose your favourite three to pursue further. If you are struggling to decide which web designer or agency to go for then search for their official website, every web designer or agency will have a website and they should use it to showcase all of their best work. Does anything impress you on their website? Have they won any awards? If their portfolio is full of work from clients then that’s always a reassuring sign. One more thing to do is to search their company or individual name on