Finding a good web designer isn’t as easy as it sounds. Here’s some good tips from Vivid Candi — one of the top digital agencies in Los Angeles.
- Make sure they use Wordpress for the CMS platform! Anything else sucks! Wordpress is on 40 million + sites, free and growing. It’s not going anywhere.
- Make sure they work inhouse and don’t outsource work.
- Make sure they have top notch project management. This way nothing falls through the cracks! At Vivid Candi, we use google doc spreadsheets to project manage each website.
- Make sure the project won’t take longer than 3 months. Any normal website should be able to be completed in 1-3 months.
- Make sure they have a great personality! You’re gonna be working with them all the time, so it’s important you mesh— plus that will help you get some hook-ups along the way =).
- Make sure they’ve been in building websites for 10 years or more! Always good to have a seasoned expert!
- Make sure they’re on top of upcoming web technologies (i.e. google tv).
- Don’t hire someone just because they’re cheaper! Quality is key– not quantity.
- Contact the owners of several sites in the web designers portfolio — make sure they have good things to say about the web designer!
- Don’t use anyone else but us, Vivid Candi – hehe… see our main website at www.vividcandi.com.
