If you are running a small business and you are planning to create an online commercial portal to increase the company's sales, then the first tasks is to choose between doing the web designing work in-house or outsource the work to another web design service provider. If it is going to be a one-time activity you could potentially train a person within the company and get the work done. But if it's going to be an ongoing activity which includes maintenance and doing some upgrades to the existing design, then the work can be given to a different service provider.
When choosing a web design service provider, you have to prepare a checklist of items. These items need to be satisfied or at least a majority of the checklist items need to be satisfied before engaging the service provider. Some of the parameters that need to be checked include their past history with respect to their quality of the work delivered and also with respect to the ways and means employed to complete the task.
The quality of their web site design can be checked easily by looking at their past web sites they had created. One has to look at a variety of web sites designed before coming to a conclusion regarding the quality of the web design. The most difficult part though lies with finding out their way of operations and the processes they adopt to complete their work.One of the main requirements for a good web designer is to patiently hear all the requirements provided by the business owner. When the business makes some changes, some of the web design service providers actually don't listen to the changes and continue to emphasize that their design ideas are the best and reject the business owner ideas.
After getting the feedback from the different customers who had got their web sites designed by the same web designer, regarding their work practices and their approach towards the web design activity, the business can take a call on whether to give the web designing order to that particular provider.After selecting the web design service provider, people from the business has to ensure that they interact continuously with the web designer. The business should ensure that a well-experienced web application development professional interacts with the web designer, as the person will be able to check whether all the requirements have been met.