When looking for web developers most companies will consider the cost, hidden charges, experience of the developers and the reputation that the hold. Use these tips for hiring an appropriate web developer.
The developers should engage your IT and other selected staff in your company to work on the project in each step of the web design, development and installation. The majority of web developers are technical people who may have little understanding of the nature of your business hence allow them to work with your staff do that they develop a site that will meet your business needs because you staff understand those needs.
Web design profession should use the latest coding languages and tools because you need a site that has advanced features. The web developing company must have experts in various fields of IT such as digital marketers and graphic designers to offer you other web-related services in the future.
Ensure that the company will offer you high-quality support services. They have to train and solve the problems employees experience when interacting with their website. If the employees have many challenges interacting with the site, the developers will notice the challenges and errors on the site that need to be corrected and improvements that should be made so that the site suits the users’ needs. Your employees can be used to test the website in the place of the customers.
The company will install the template of the software directly onto your system or hand over the software licenses/keys and admin access only if you are yet to complete the payment. The developer is also afraid of clients who may turn out to be fraudsters hence there is no way you will be given all the vital documents of the software if you have not paid all the money that you agreed on.
You should be given quality assurance document, source files, software instructions manual, web maintenance document, web testing plan document and any other documents when you are done with paying for the website. All these documents can be combined in a RAR or Zip and emailed to you or sent through the cloud applications like Dropbox but developers who are still using the old technology will burn them on a CD and hand it over to you.
The developer should send you a scanned contract or send the paper contract along with other documents that can only be sent through hardcopy. Owning the sites’ documentation proves the transfer of ownership of the website form the web design company to your company hence ensure that you have all the documents so that you do not give a room of being duped.