Important things you must note before outsourcing
Offshore outsourcing is a practice of transferring jobs to companies located in any part of the world on a contract basis for quality or financial reasons. Increasing internet usage, globalization of market, and difference in exchange rates of currency has resulted in outsourcing large number of job flow from countries such as USA and UK to Asian countries such as India. The technical skill and manpower plays a major part in choosing an offshore outsourcing company who offer their services.
Taking a decision to outsource web designing work is easier than choosing a good outsourcing web designing company that offers you uncompromising quality, competitive price, total confidentiality, and good customer service. There are several factors which have to be checked before opting to outsource job.
Experience in web design
More than millions of companies offer web design at competitive price. Free templates or web sites with minimal charges are available online, but designing a website is not just making visually appealing web pages. Web design India is not just designing layouts, putting texts and adding company information. It is extremely essential to put your products on the web pages to your best benefit.
To choose a good web designing company, you must first check how many sites are designed by this company. You can look at the client testimonial and some of the sites designed by the company. Check if there are broken links, spelling errors, missing images, and the upload time of these sites. You must see how the products are displayed. It is also very important to check that site is search engine friendly or not.
Before choosing the company, you must make sure the company has good business experience, search engine optimization knowledge, language proficiency, and their successful projects.
Web design Infrastructure
“To know a craftman’s skill, check his tools” – A good web design company must comprise a good infrastructure with latest software and network infrastructure. A professional web designing company must have a separate art department and customer service which allows easy access to communicate. A web service with 24 x 7 with broadband connection would be an excellent choice.
The web designing company must have good experience in multiple platforms and knowledge of programming language of PHP, MySQL, VB, C++, Linux, Windows, etc.
Web designing team
The company offering web design company must have a team of skilled professionals consisting of visualizer, designers, developers, SEO copy writers, software engineers, and searching engine optimizers.
The designing team must have good knowledge of art and science of web designing. They must possess innovative ideas and expertise in graphic design software such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver, animation software, HTML (hypertext markup language) and CSS (cascading style sheet). A well experienced web designer must have skill to combine aesthetic perspective and usability with focus on optimized and fast-loading web pages. The graphic department must produce an original unique design for your company.
Web design service and subject understanding
- Are the products been displayed properly?
- Are the special offers been highlighted to attract your potential customers?
- Is your potential customer able to get the information they are looking for?
A well designed website can effectively promote your products and bring more customers to your site. The success of a business depends on customer-friendly website as well as search engine friendly websites. The better your business services and products are understood, the nicer the website will be. This requires better insight on how the customer will react to the website.
Co-ordination (communication and time constraints)
A good web designing company must maintain qualities such as good co ordination, communication, language proficiency, and professional approach while handling your project.
Cost
Cost difference is the basic reason that most of the jobs being outsourced to other companies. When outsourcing, the web designing company must take care of any problem at no additional cost than on the contract. There must be no hidden costs.
Communication
Does the company you are planning to contact for web design has convenient communication tools such as live support? The web designing company must have easy accessibility and quicker response to your queries and complaints. Language ineptitude would cause a big problem in communication. Communication within the designing team must be strong. Your message and modification must be carried out effectively.
Timing
Because of difference in timing due to different geographical location, it becomes essential that the web designing company must have service timings to fit your business timings. Check if the company has 24 x 7 services for the clients. Also the designing team must be able to work according to your timings.
Maintenance of website
Maintaining a website is as important as designing a website. It makes a great difference in Internet Marketing India to have a clean and error-free website without any missing images.
You may want to put a new product or add some text on your site. You must check how soon the modification can be done. You must also check beforehand if any special charges for any modifications after designing a website.