The Top 5 Things to Look For In a Web Design Firm

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Designing a website is not a project that gets done within a week. You wouldn't want it to be designed in a week, anyhow. This will mean there wasn't a lot of effort put into the design and it may have a lot of bugs. We are going to explain the top 5 things to look for when trying to find a web design firm to do business with.

1. Find a New Bedford Web Design  firm that is local to you. Now although it is not a necessary requirement to using a web design firm, you should take this into being a consideration when looking for a firm. You should want to be able to sit down face to face with the people that will be taking your money. A web design firm will tend to work better if they are able to get a better understanding of you as a person and understand what it is you are trying to accomplish online. Now as I say this, it is not always the case. Maybe you were on a website that you really liked and saw at the bottom a link to the web design firm that created the site. Unless this website is going to be your direct competition, I would pick up the phone and ask their opinion of the company. Usually if they have a link at the bottom of their site there is a chance that they are happy with the company. But it is still a good idea to check, sometimes companies will not know how to take it off, while others still will not of even noticed that there is a link at the bottom of their website.

2. Review the design firm's portfolio. If you are on a New Bedford Web Design  firm's website and are trying to see if they will be able to design a website that you will be happy with, check their prior work. For example, if you are trying to create an e-commerce website and the company has never designed an e-commerce site, they may not know how to do it. You usually don't want your website to be a guinea pig, it may take a lot longer and you might not get the features that you want. If you do see that they have designed websites like the one you are trying to create then check this off your list of requirements needed to work with them.

3. Turn around time for a website. Now this will be something that you can determine when sitting down with the design firm. It is good to note that here you are looking for honesty. Give them a time line that you want your website to be designed within. If they jump at it and say, "we can make you a website within a week". Be concerned. You will have to be realistic with what you are asking of a website design firm. If you are asking for a 4 page website then it may be true they can design it within a week. However if you are asking for a 10 page website it could take weeks if not months. The reason is and should be their response, is that usually the client (you) will have to supply them with the content. You wouldn't want them to try to talk like they know anything about your business. You wouldn't be able to talk confidently about their business would you? So it will take effort on your part to provide them with more content then they will need. You will also want to have them go through the wire framing process with you, so that you are not leaving anything out. The wire framing and site map will be processes that you will want to have a little bit of involvement with. Don't try to control the process as the design firm might want to lay it out in a format that is better for usability and for the search engines.





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Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Actually Web Design?

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Most clients and designers alike tend to think that the first step of building a Web site is creating or choosing the graphic design and layout of the site, or perhaps planning the site using a flow chart or site map. But the first step of design is not the graphical design, nor the overall functional design of the site.

Rather, it is the essential task of defining the core Search Engine Optimization needed for the site. This is the nucleus of design, since it establishes niche, targeted audience, tone and intensity of presence. This starts with assessing the prospective client's business goals and determining how to best illustrate these goals and their unique online presence by something as simple as their domain name. The domain name is a great example of SEO as design since it is the key to attracting and illustrating a company on the Web, even before the actual site design is seen or a menu button has been pressed. Whether or not the domain is even full of relevant keywords, the more essential nature of the domain name is that it is there to attract and deliver a message - just as design does.

So, when has SEO ever been seen as actual design? SEO is usually discussed in terms of bots and directories, meta tags, keyword density and search engine ranking. But seeing SEO as an integral part of design, rather than just its tools and methods, helps us to move more into the creative nature of the Internet and New Bedford Web Design.  

Generally, a designer will start to integrate SEO at the initial stage of graphic development; how a website is built graphically can affect the overall effects of its organic search results. That is, the natural result of the Website being indexed by search engines and the consequent flow of visitors to the site. So, in the same way that SEO is part of design, design is also part of SEO.

At the core of this pairing are two values: Attraction and Delivery.

SEO and New Bedford Web Design  can easily seen as separate since they involve different terms, tools and  techniques to implement them.  However, they ultimately play the same roles - to attract and deliver.

ATTRACTION

Attracting a visitor, whether it is human or an algorithmic robot, takes research and skill. To make attraction as inherent within the site design and SEO results as possible we need to connect with both sides of the "Internet coin" - say heads for the public, viewership side and tails for the back end development. The value of any successful website is the continuous ability to remain visible and attract visitors to the site. This is achieved by the initial work of the focused development of the Website to be as attractive as possible (in word and image) with following, responsive development to how the public side of site is evaluated by search engines and visitors. The two sides of a coin create a unity of value, one side inherently needed by the other to hold value.






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