Your business is up and running. you have everything you want for traditional marketing like a business card and brochure. So now you face the biggest barrier, A website.

Your business is the gateway for the world to your business. the entire planet earth gets introduced to your website. So you need to have the best site and for that, you need a designer.

So should you just Google and hope for the best? Nope.

Here are 7 things you should do before you go down that route.

Ask Around

Instead of random google searches, Ask your offline sources. Friends and family.

Ideally, you want someone who comes highly recommended by someone you know.

There are millions of graphic designers in this world. But if you want to sit down and have a face to face chat, You have to rely on your offline sources.

If you can’t do that you can always click on the pool of designers online and get a good match.

Better yet, find a website in your industry that you like, and contact the web designer directly. Most designers leave a designed by at the bottom of websites they are proud of.

Know your goals and priorities

Before hiring a designer, ask yourself what you want. is it an online store? or is it just to provide information?

A web designer can help you with it, but they might charge you for this conversation.

Instead, search online for websites you like and could probably represent your business from an image perspective.

Make a design wish list

Do you want a designer to start from scratch or do you have a website that needs updating? both are 2 different conversations. One is to create and execute a vision and the other is to improve an existing vision. Add social media platforms you like to have as well.

All this will add up and give your designer an idea of what you want and give you a time frame on when to complete this.

Budget

building a website is like building a home, It will never go like you anticipated.

Don’t let this scare you. Find the prices in your area for web design works. And then speak with potential designer/developer.

Give each page a purpose

How many pages do you want? What is good for each page. How many words do you want in a page?

Again, the best way is to find a website in your industry you admire. And try to emulate the structure to create similarly.

If you don’t know how many pages you need, Start with these 5

• Home
• About
• FAQ
• Product or service gallery/details
• Contact Us

Test your links

Make sure there is an email associated with the site, and have your friends and family send you emails through the website.

If you can order the product directly from your website. Run several orders to confirm everything works fine.

View your website on a mobile device

You want visitors to easily scroll through the website via mobile. Be sure to view your site for, multiple devices. Send your friends and family a link to your site and ask them for their opinion regarding how it looks and feels.

Once you have done these 7 points you are ready to hire a designer. they have the info they want to design and you will get what you want. and outstanding websites at an affordable cost.

When you own a business, your website is one of your most important mediums that can be used to reach new customers and generate more leads for your business. The issues faced by entrepreneurs while hiring an agency for website development in Kannur are the quality of the website developed and the high cost charged in developing a decent website. DSIGNS web development service throws away all your worries.

Visit: www.dsignsworld.com for a quote or give us a buzz at +91 94952 43600