Hiring an adr web designer? watch for these warning signs
August 28, 2007 ·
Don’t let it happen to you: You pay a chunk of change for someone to design your website or blog. Then you find out you can’t even update it without going through them…and paying them more money for their time, of course. Maybe you even find out you don’t own your own domain name.
In Are You Being Held Hostage by Your Web Developer?, marketing pro Drew McLellan points out,
Software and technology has completely changed the way websites and blogs are built. In the olden days (late 80s and early 90’s) no one but the web gurus understood coding and the like.
But the world has changed and now you can control your own destiny.
The good news — most web developers are completely above board and honest. The problem is that the people hiring web developers that glaze over as soon as they hear HTML or WYSIWYG are the ones…least equipped to pick out the good guys from the bad.
Drew goes on to list three key warning signs to watch out for when hiring a website developer. Be sure to read through the readers’ comments at the bottom of the article for more good advice from other web professionals.
These are the reasons I generally recommend using blogging software to build your ADR website…it’s more flexible, you can update it yourself if you can type, and the search engines love it.
Do you have questions about hiring a good web developer for your site? Leave a comment (if you’re reading this via email, just click on the article title, then scroll down the Mediator Tech article page to find the comment box) and I’ll search out some answers for you.
Copyright © 2007 by Tammy Lenski. All rights reserved.
Photo credit: Thad Zajdowicz
Tammy,
It is so maddening to meet a business owner who is in this sort of a jam. They have been taken advantage of — and to add insult to injury, it’s going to take more money to get them out of the mess.
Thanks for keeping this discussion going!
Drew