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- April 6, 2020
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.
It would help if you had your IT and other selected staff in your company to work on the project to work closely with the web developers are every step of the web design, development and installation. Since web developers have technical not a business background they need your staff to help them understand your business needs so that they do not create a site that will not fulfill those needs.
The company’s employees should be able to use coding languages and software for them to assure you that the site will have modern 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 need to train employees and help them to overcome the challenges that the site may expose them to be for they get used to it. 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.
If you have paid percentage of the amount you agreed on some developers will install the template of the software directly onto your system or hand over the software licenses/keys and admin access only. 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.
After you complete the payment the developer should give you the quality assurance document, source files, software instructions manual, web maintenance document, web testing plan document, and any other documents. You can be given a CD that has all the documents, or you can be emailed or receive through cloud apps like Dropbox, a RAR or ZIP that has all the documents that you need.
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.
