Most people who are involved in website building know about WordPress, Joomla and Drupal templates and themes. These commonly-used open source Content Management Systems (CMS) provide sets of “themes” controlling the colors, look-feel, and layout of a website. However, if you have a business whose marketing and other materials have a distinctive look and feel, they can be difficult to modify. If your in-house designer has come up with a particular layout of the site that must be implemented, then it usually takes a custom site designer who understands the CMS you are using to modify the theme.
So, while these may be options, they may be essentially unworkable when it comes to your business. In that case, you will need to select a company who can provide a custom website design in Concord CA. Selecting this company will have a great deal of impact on your budget, your reputation and your site appearance. You will need to choose carefully, since horror stories abound of website design projects gone bad.
The first thing to consider is, not surprisingly, how long have they been in business? If it has been for several years, are the original owners still in charge of the business? Ask for several site URLs that showcase their work. Don’t accept this at face value, however. Go to WHOIS.com and enter the site URL in and find out who the owner is – and try to contact them. It’s easy to “showcase” work that isn’t their own.
The second question you may want to ask about is their work and communication process. How often will you get updates? Can they walk you through a recent project they did? How did they handle change requests from the client? Did they communicate by email? Or did they pick up the phone? What about their last project? Ask them to explain how they handled conflicts between creative folks and the business folks? The third, and for some most important, question is budgets. What percentage of their projects come in at or under budget? What happened in the situation when it went over? Contact USA Local Media LLC for more information.
