Recommendation For Web Designer?

Good grief. This post could have also been titled Promote YourWeb Design Business Here.

Hello Julie, I have a home office in RI and I am easy to reach, always. I have make over 600 web designs in 8 years in business. I am very affordable and give free consulting over the phone before I start any work. If you could like to talk to me about this project, please give me a call. xxx-xxx-xxxx. Thanks. Donna www.WebDesignsRI.com

Get someone local.

Get someone who understands or will help you develop your brand identity.

Get someone who will agree to two rounds of small revisions.

Get someone who isn't going to push services before they finish the site.

Get someone you like personally.

If you can check the above boxes, you have a winner.

My friend, Elicia, creates basic websites for $495 and $25 monthly maintenance.

The $495 set-up fee includes everything to get you started with your new custom website. It includes the layout of your website, the selection of stock photos along with the placement of your own photos, and even the writing of your website copy. The set-up fee also includes a training session so that you'll be able to edit content and upload new photos on your own.

She ran an agency for years and now working independently because she enjoys doing it.

https://www.brandgenie.com/custom-websites/

https://www.facebook.com/brandgeniemagic/

Amanda Brana at Heartglobe Enterprises. They are outstanding! Her contact information: (201) 417-8566/[email address]

Seems to me a lot of these posts are referrals from someone, not someone promoting themselves. Seems like a legit question and answer thread to me, and worth sifting through for a few contacts to save for website services. I did.

I really like the cause of the website. Kiddos always need t-shirts and especially ones who cannot afford them. I think one of the thing I would recommend is potentially changing the flow of the site to better suit the average user and of course kiddos! You should definitely keep it bright and fun. I think the how it works should be on the home page, that way people have an idea of "how it works" right away. If you would like more insight please feel free to reach out.

I am a web designer and a marketer and a business owner. I make a lot of money designing beautiful websites from scratch. If you love the design you selected, have invested in and developed a strong SEO content strategy. Then paying a lot for a custom coded site can make a lot of sense. Usually there are no periodic updates involved, just a once and done project.

If you want to be able to make changes on the fly, add/update pages and optimize for marketing then do something a little unconventional. Have someone build your site on a popular well documented platform like Wix, GoDaddy, Google Pages. Let it be something that you and your staff can learn over time. Over time you'll have the inhouse expertise to update on page text, images without the need of a "web designer"

Hi Julie. You're obviously getting inundated with responses from people happy to help you out. I think we'd all like to know more about what building the site out further means to you, and learn exactly where you'd like to go with it. There's a plethora of developers and coders out there. Take care as you walk down this path and you'll not only get your site updated, but come away with an improved perspective as to what it can do for you.

Sometimes I think it's almost like finding a doctor or a shrink. There's no shortage of people to do the job - but you'll get so much more out of it if you find someone you feel comfortable with. They need to ask plenty of open-ended questions of you and help you get to the heart of what you're trying to do.

There's plenty of developers out there who understand the coding and the widgets and whistles and bells. Find someone who wants to PARTNER with you and understands your business drivers. Someone who's going to help you understand how best to facilitate what your goals are for the site and your business and advise you on best ways to get there.

Without any "self promotion" as mentioned by some below I will try to assist you in getting the right web designer for your website-You need to ask important questions when you talk to the web designers or web companies to be sure you get the proper website.

It depends on the type website you need. Is it for marketing, educating, eCommerce or "POP" Point of Presence? Each of these need to be designed different to accomplish your goals.

example: If your website is designed to bring in business ask the web designer "how much business and marketing experience do they have"? They may be able to build a beautiful website but will it be designed bring in business? For a business website try to find a company that has more years in marketing than designing websites but has access to a web designer with graphic experience to take direction from the designer. Many web designers are graphic artists or simply fill in templates or build pretty websites.

Hope this helps! If you need more info you may contact me directly [email address]