Diligent Design

New Year, New Web Site Designer?

Deciding you’d like a new website is the easy bit – actually getting started can be daunting. You’re probably thinking who do you choose to design it, how much will it cost, how long will it take, will it be better than the one you’ve got, will it do everything you want it to even though you don’t know all those things right now?

These are all good questions and the best place to start is by asking your friends who did their web site and can they recommend a web site designer to you? Failing that, research some web sites you like, find out who designed those and look at the designer’s portfolio of web sites to make sure they’ve got experience with companies like yours.

Most importantly make sure you talk to a few web site designers on the phone and arrange to meet them – make sure you’re confident about working with them and that they understand your business and your requirements, both now and ongoing.

How You Can Benefit from A New Web Site Design

There are many benefits for you in getting a new web site designed. If your site is over two years old the chances are the design is looking tired and it’s not structured and optimised to get you high web site rankings and maximum conversion rates. Both of these can be addressed on a new web site giving you more traffic and more customers i.e more revenue.

Web site design has progressed over the last few years. You can now get a professionally designed web site, that you can update easily yourself, for a small initial investment plus, you save money by not paying your designer every time you want to update something. New developments also mean designers can build your web site much quicker – you get your new shiny web site in a few weeks rather than months. And finally, a good web site designer will produce a site for you that will actually give you a return on your investment rather than it continually costing you more money!

Recommendations From My Clients

“Working with Lyz was as painless as could possibly be imagined. I had no doubts at all about the quality of the job and whether it would be done right, even in the area of design when the fickle mind of the customer (i.e. me) kept changing she patiently went ahead and designed a great website (well 2 actually quantumsuccess.co.uk and broadgatechiropractic.com)

She also is a computer nerd – and I mean this as a fabulous compliment- she just KNOWS HER STUFF so if I had any questions as to what I should be doing she was there to hold my hand and never cut me short or put me off. I would definitely hire her again. Simon Smith” November 4, 2009

Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity
Simon Smith hired Lyz as a Graphic/Web Designer in 2009, and hired Lyz more than once

White Paper on Choosing a Website Design Company

Your Guide to Choosing the Best Web Site Design Company for Your Business

So you have, or the company you work for has, decided you want a new web site. Who should you choose to design and build it? How much will it cost? How can you tell if you’re being ripped off? How will you understand what you’re getting? Will it look professional? Will it rank well on Google? These and many other questions are common concerns that should be addressed from the start.

The good news is you’re not alone! Like many people I talk to you may have already had a disastrous experience with a web site that’s left a bitter taste in your mouth and you don’t want to make the same mistake again. It’s my hope that this white paper leads you in the right direction.