What Web Design Will Bring And How We Compete Against Website Builders
A website designer is an individual or company that designs the layout and visual appearance of a website. They ensure the website is visually pleasing and user friendly so it functions like it should do.
An online website builder is a website that provides you with the resources to build your own websites. They give you many options that you can choose from to make your website as unique as possible such as being able to change text in headers and body content within other pages on the website. Although website builders do their best to offer simple solutions to build your own website, you can usually tell the difference between one that’s been made on a website builder to one that’s been created by a web designer. This blog will talk you through the benefits of hiring a professional website designer rather than using an online service where you can build a website yourself.
Experience And Skills:
A professional website designer possesses many skills & services such as graphic design, coding, and hosting support. More than likely you will not hold all these skills to build and maintain a website so this is why you have a web developer on hand to take care of all this for you.
By using an online service, you do not acquire all the skills or knowledge needed to build a sufficient website. Personal touch is really important when is comes to your own brand, so why limit yourself with a website builder that is only partially customisable without the help of a developer. Have you ever been on a website before and thought that the website looked and functioned terribly? Well that website was most likely built an online website builder.
Post Website Support
Once a web designer has built a website, they will offer you support after it is built. The website does not just appear on the web. It also needs to be hosted to be visible on the internet and stay online. Your website designer would also advise you to host your website with them and continue providing services such as updating or making changes to the website. This is certainly the case with our website packages that include the website build, unlimited changes to the websites content and maintenance.
If you were to use an online service, you would spend hours building the website, make changes yourself and if you have any issues with their website builder or something goes wrong it could take days for your issue to be resolved as you’re dealing with a large company, this may not be the stress-free option your hoping for. Whereas if you had an issue with the website and you had a developer on hand to call it can get resolved almost immediately every time.
Portfolio from previous work
By hiring a professional website designer, you can view their previous work they have done to see if their service is something you would be interested in. This will allow you to look into what type of websites they have done and see if there is a design you would like for your own website. The bigger their portfolio is, means the more experience they have. And the more varied their knowledge is in different businesses. A experienced professional website designer is able to use their creative skills on how to build a visually pleasing website that attracts customers the first few seconds after they click on the link just by the types of colours they use, the font and size of font, the placement of information and how much information they put onto every page and ensure it is all relevant.
The professional has experience in what looks good and what attracts customers, but most importantly you will stand a much higher chance of them staying on the site and engaging in what you have to offer.
Trust between you and your web designer
When you search for experienced website designers that provide a high quality service, and you hire them, you develop a relationship. A trust that they will provide the best service for you and continue to provide that service once they have delivered the website. They will make a promise to make your imagination come to life. They will stay in regular contact with you about the progress of your website, asking if you like it, if it is how you imagined or if you would like to change anything. They will also make a promise to always advise you in your and your business’ best interest. For example, if you would like to make a change to anything, and due to their field of experience they know that change won’t be the best change, they will advise you on different paths you can take to achieve your goal.
Overall, if you are thinking about needing a website, you should take every aspect into consideration and that spending the extra money might actually be worth it. Make sure to always do your research on the benefits of hiring a professional website designer over using an online website builder and to do plenty of research on website designers and their previous work. Don’t shy away from asking questions or too many questions.
Wix is probably one of the most famous online website builders out there, and to get all of the benefits it costs you £18 per month. SK Web Designs (Our) entry level website package is £29.99 per month. So you’re going to have an experienced professional design/ develop your website to save you time and stress, premium support with just one phone call away and unlimited changes each month, for a small difference in price.
Give us a call or email to discuss further on how our website packages will be beneficial and suitable for you.