What To Look For When Outsourcing Web Development

Posted on March 1, 2010
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Outsourcing Web Development

A Web developer is a person or company that builds and maintains high quality websites for corporations, businesses, organizations, and individuals. They have the experience and qualifications to build a visible presence on the Web. Today, with so many websites selling their products and services, businesses need to build a strong presence to gain a competitive edge. This requires a lot of technical ‘know how’ which is the expertise of a professional web developer. If you are looking to outsource your web development project, you should know what to look for before you hire a web developer.

1. A professional web developer will have very extensive and diverse web building knowledge and web development skills. They should be well versed in writing custom scripts and working with various scripting languages. This includes PHP coding, CMS integration, and JavaScript. They should also know how to use an HTML editor and how to hand code HTML. As well, a quality web developer should be able to provide cgi and database programming.

2. A web developer will be able to create innovative website designs. This includes creating innovative graphics, efficiently managing and creating a professional layout that includes proper images, graphics, text, and color schemes. A good web developer should be able to create a wide range of website styles with the most current features such as animation and flash. Their development style should be innovative, unique, individualistic, and dynamic. As well, having marketing know-how is essential when looking for a web developer.

3. A professional web developer should keep up-to-date on the new search engine optimizing tools and techniques for all the major search engines. The websites they build should be user friendly and search engine friendly. As well, they should know to keep a website functional in a number of different web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Navigator, Netscape, Firefox, Opera, and Mozilla.

4. A high quality web developer should have the knowledge and tools to bring quality and relevant traffic to the website. This includes creating interactive pages that encourage visitors to stay on the site. As well, they should be knowledgeable about a diverse range of scripting languages to create sales tools, surveys, polls, contests, feedback forms, discussion forums, chat rooms, and more. The developer will make each page visually appealing, interesting, unique, and informative. Content will be high quality to not only attract visitors, but boost search engine ranking. You can get a sense of their web design ability by asking to see their design portfolio.

When outsourcing web development, it is important that you understand what a web developer does so you know that the person or company that you hire has the experience to meet your individual needs. The best web developer will provide a host of services such as acquiring a domain name, setting up a web hosting account, marketing and promoting your web site, writing copy, and more, so that your website turns high quality traffic into a loyal customer base.

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