Is a ‘friend of a friend’ really your best choice for designing your website?
If you’re thinking about asking your friend, cousin or nephew to design your website, the first thing to ask yourself is: do they work for a web design company? In Brisbane, we see far too many business owners who have used a friend or relative to design their website, either to help out their friend, or to save themselves some money.
Eventually, most of these businesses will turn to a professional web development team in Brisbane to help fix the problems with their website, or start over. You wouldn’t ask your friend for medical advice or to help you fill out your tax return unless they’re qualified in those fields, would you? So why go to someone who isn’t a professional developer to design your website or help you with online marketing?
If we’re all honest about it, anyone who is really good at what they do will run a business full time and charge industry rates for their work, not just work as a side project in a field completely unrelated to their normal employment. But if you’re not still convinced that experienced, professional website developers in Brisbane will do a better job than someone who is not in the industry, here are three reasons that might change your mind.
1. Search engine optimisation (SEO)
It’s very unlikely that someone who “tinkers with websites” will know how to optimise your new website for search engines, or write content appropriately. Even more importantly, the theme and design you select can impact heavily on your SEO, and a non-professional might not know which themes are better for SEO than others. This can result in your website not ranking very well in search engines, and ultimately, you’ll spend more money to have your website redesigned by a professional web development team in Brisbane.
2. Branding
Your website needs to be designed around your branding, with the right layout, colours, fonts, and logo. Getting this right is vital to the success of your business and it’s unlikely that a non-professional will have the skills and the experience to ensure that your branding is a priority and that your website reflects your brand. If your branding is done correctly, and applied consistently across all of your materials, it will go a long way towards building brand recognition.
3. Lost time
At the moment you realise that your new website isn’t working for your business, that’s the time you look back and see all of the time you’ve wasted. At GO Creative, just because we are website developers, we still can’t create a perfect website overnight, but we can create very high quality websites in a reasonable amount of time.
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