How to Prepare Yourself Before you contact a Developer?

If you have decided to get a website developed for your business to take it to the next level, then you are at the right place. Having a website developed to increase conversions has become an increasingly popular tendency in the current world of business. What many businesses fail to understand is that handing over the job to a web developer having prepared pre-hand has a huge difference from getting the job done blindly. Seeking a web development service cluelessly can result in extended deadlines as well as extended budgets. And yes, you don’t want it! Therefore it’s absolutely vital for you to be prepared well before calling a web developer in order to avoid unpleasant surprises and to get the maximum benefit for what you invest. That’s why we took the initiative to brief the ways you should prepare before calling a web developer.

Do you have domain and Hosting?

What is a domain name?

Domain name can be referred to as the address of your website which is typed in the URL bar of the browser. People use the domain name to locate you on the internet. Hence it’s vital to have a strong domain name to represent your business on the internet with authenticity. Choosing a strong domain name has a direct bearing on how fast you can be sought by your target audience. Here are some top tips to select an ideal domain name for your business.

• Make sure that your domain name matches your business name.
• Make it shorter, easy to remember and recall
• Be sure that your domain name is not hard to pronounce and spell
• Never use hyphens, numbers or other symbols
• Sticking to .com domain name will give the advantage of easy promotion
• You can obtain clever domain name suggestions using a domain name generator

What is hosting?

Hosting is the service which enables you to store all the files of your website in one place. You can purchase a domain name as well as hosting facility for a monthly or annual subscription fee. Many web developers opt to purchase a domain name and hosting facility for you, but the smartest choice is to buy them yourself. Letting your developer purchase them for you gives them the full control of hosting in that case you’ll have to depend on the developer for the rest of your life even though he/she performs poorly. So be wise and buy it yourself.

Do you have a logo?

This is the second most important thing to be considered before you get the service of web development. As much as a good logo is important for your business, having a proper logo is absolutely vital for your website. Website with a poor logo design doesn’t cater well in creating the right authentic appeal. Keeping a poor logo is the worst injustice that you can do to your business. A good logo grabs users’ attention quickly, creates a strong first impression, stands solidly for your brand identity, makes you stand out from the competition, nurtures brand loyalty and ultimately it has a profound influence on the decision-making of your clients. And a poor logo does exactly otherwise. If you already have a logo, assess how well it caters to the following criteria to see the strength of it.

• Simplicity – simple logo designs are ideal to convey a brand’s personality effectively as customers tend to have a brief focus span on the logos.
• Relevance – your logo should be relevant for what you stand for.
• Memorable – The greater the customers can recall your logo, the greater the possibility that they connect and return to you.
• Versatile – A good logo design appears great in all the sizes and in all the form of materials.

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Do you have the content ready?

Having your content ready beforehand is absolutely important before you seek a web development service provider as the majority of web designers and developers prefer the content in their hand before initiating their job. It is important to find the right balance in designing and development in relation with the content as content is the life blood of a website. If you find it difficult to provide the content initially for each and every page, you can at least focus on the core pages and sections. However, in case you fail to provide content whatsoever, you can get the website designed with dummy content which can be replaced with original content later. If you don’t be clever with the text lengths, image sizes and quality of dummy content, you will face great difficulties when you attempt to replace them with original content, which not only subsequently will increase the development cost but also can make your website a failure. Nonetheless, the content presented in your website should well abide by the following qualities.

• Content should be compelling – Compelling content always promises a value which has an immediate relevance to the target audience.
• Content should be fulfilling – Whatever the promised values should be delivered by the content in order to avoid any disappointments as well as to increase content distribution amongst the target communities.
• Content should be convenient – The format that you present your content with should be convenient for the users and should serve the purpose.
• Content should be cost effective and efficient – Firstly, your investment on content should convert. Secondly, the intervals of content updating should be done adhering to a carefully managed schedule.
• Content writing should be SEO optimized for better ranking in web searches.

In conclusion, obtaining professional assistance in content creation and content writing is absolutely vital to get the maximum return on your investment. That’s why we are here to help you. Our experienced content writing and creation teams are available to fulfill all your content related requirements of any form. Feel free to contact us!

Stalk your competitors’ website

Yes, this is a good practice. Stalking your competitors’ websites doesn’t mean that you are going to build yours just like theirs. The motive here is to use a few top competitor sites as a benchmark for your website. Spend hours and check all the features and the design elements. Note down the pros and cons of each site. Analyze your data to come up with a design idea containing many pros with minimized cons. This benchmarking will assist you to come up with a far superior concept for your website than your competitors. You can assess your competitors’ websites in terms of user experience, the structure of the site, page layout, consistency of the keywords, technologies used, loading time etc. Once you’re done taking notes, present your findings to the web development service provider with key descriptions. A professional, well experienced web development service provider just like us will go beyond your expectations coming up with suggestions to improve the performance of your website further, by adhering to your preferences. Also, we know how to practice ethical web development. Get the ultimate web development service by us and feel the difference for yourself.

Do you have your products ready?

Having your product information ready is an absolutely important requirement for an online store. First of all, you need to have a track of products that you are going to sell online. Product details for each product (based on the nature of your products) should be readily available with you. Product images also should be given a higher priority. Images should be real product images (not stock photos) with a good quality, but be sure that the images are not too big in order to prevent page loading delays. Shipping methods and prices also should be provided to your designer beforehand. All these details are important for the designer to come up with effective layouts for your website. Our web design teams are ready to help you with any requirement in designing. Just drop us a message!

Document everything

Finally, it’s time to document everything you’ve studied. Your scope should be created by taking all the requirements along with every feature and instruction into account. Nonetheless, don’t forget to note down what you don’t appreciate which can be a feature in design or functionality. If you go by this practice, it will save you a whole bunch of money as well as time. It will save you and your web developer from the trouble of altering the design and development time to time which adds extra cost to your budget. Once you’re ready with your final scope, it’s time to contact your developer. If you wish to talk with us to clarify your further doubts, feel free to contact us. We are happy to arrange an hour of completely dedicated consultation session for you with free 15 minutes.