Finding a website designer might seem easy at first. There are thousands of places that claim they can build the perfect website for you. Everyone from your nephew to huge corporate website designer firms are vying to design your website.  So how do you pick one that’s right for you?

Narrowing Down the List

Demanding higher standards for your website will quickly reduce the list of qualified candidates. For your website needs, use these guidelines to reveal the cream of the crop in designers:

• Custom and Unique Design - No templates or pre-made layouts means your website will be unique.  You won’t find hundreds of websites that look oddly similar to yours.
• Professional Designers – You’ll want people who actually study, research and develop their artistic skills in the realms of color theming, lighting, texture, typography, spacing and flow of content.
• Consistent Look in all Browsers- Make sure your website is fully functional and looks consistent in at least 95% of all browser types and versions used world wide.  Too often websites look great on one computer, but terrible on another.
• Hand Coders - Eliminate website designers that are dependent on software to do their work for them. Make sure your web designer can go beyond the limitations of what a tool can do. Require that they know how to code in CSS and HTML/XHTML for total control.
• Standardized and Validated Code- Require that the code behind your website be W3C compliant HTML, XHTML and CSS.  Meeting these formal standardizations will reduce bugs in your website, reinforce consistency, and even make your website load faster.
• Optimized for Search Engines – Ensure your website designer optimizes your website so that search engines can find you easier. Knowledge of meta tags, site maps, embedded links, image descriptions, and dynamic content will help catapult your website to the top of the search results.

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Setting these high standards for your website will eliminated the vast majority of website designers crowding the market.  You’ll be lucky if you have a handful of designers that measure up, but I will be one of them.

For high quality website design that’s more than just good looking, you’ve come to the right place!

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