Where to order a website, how much will it cost to create a website? If you decide to develop your own resource, these are the first questions you will be looking for answers to. First, get useful information from friends who have had a successful or unsuccessful experience. By the way, the company Astudio receives more than half of its orders from clients who contacted us on the recommendation of customers, that is, through the sales channel word of mouth. But in this article we will try not to get hung up on advertising ourselves, and suggest methods for an objective choice.
When planning to create your own website, you have two methods of managing the process:
- Trust the order to one of the web studios
- Attract freelancers to work
We will discuss the positive and negative aspects of working with freelancers in another article. This method is mainly used by owners of large-scale projects who want to save on the budget of related expenses. That is, by hiring a specialist in a specific area who often works from home, they save on office rental costs, taxes, income, which web studios include in the cost of their services. This method has a downside: the customer is the only one responsible for the final result of the project.
By entrusting a website order to one of the web studios, the client receives more tangible guarantees, is not forced to personally select specialists, control all stages of the order, and as a result saves time and nerves.
How to choose a developer?
How to choose a developer in the capricious IT sphere? Firstly, compare and contrast the list of works included in the services of the candidates' web studios, the quality of the work performed, prices, customer reviews.
- Unfortunately, there are many cases when the contractor, voicing a "very convenient" price, develops the project within the framework of his own understanding, based on the templates at hand and ready-made CMS. So, instead of a standard commercial offer, ask for a short but individual technical description with a price list of services.
- Guided by the published portfolio of the web studio, talk to the company's previous customers. Keep in mind the opinions about the weaknesses and strengths of the developers, get reviews. Believe me, a few calls sometimes save you from losing several million.
- Personally communicate with the heads of companies applying for business cooperation. The duties of the sales manager end immediately after the conclusion of the contract. You must be sure that after receiving the advance payment you will not be forced to regret the choice made for months, and in case of possible force majeure, mistakes were made and measures to correct them were taken.
- Record all conditions, details of negotiations, promises of cooperation using correspondence, save them at least until the order is submitted. Always clarify the issue of pending expenses, raise the requirement not to violate the copyright of third parties in the completed work. Be careful when familiarizing yourself with the contract and appendices, especially if the texts are printed in small print.
- For large projects, divide both the work and the payment into parts. Regardless of any justification and amount of discounts, the requirement for 100 percent prepayment should be a red light for you.
Customer participation in the process
When you have already chosen a partner, fixed the terms, concluded an agreement, for a good result at different stages of work you should participate in the process of creating a website.
- Participate in the process of creating and coordinating the design. Study the best sites in the field and put forward only clear requirements. At the same time, listen to the advice of the designer.
- Save the files of confirmed designs. After the layout, compare them with the final result. The most beautiful design can be spoiled by illiterate programming.
- After developing the alpha version of the resource, personally study the site, if you have time, participate in the process of filling the content.
- Before publishing the project, ask your friends and acquaintances to use the site in a test environment, record inconveniences and errors. The most professional team may have shortcomings.
The article was written in 2014 and updated in June 2024. If you read to the end, you can rate the usefulness of the information below.
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