- Overview
- Web Design Glossary
- Web Design Information
- Fixed Width Web Designs vs Fluid Web Designs
- JPEG vs GIF
- Building websites people can navigate
- The Fundamentals of Web Design
- Logo Design Dublin
- The Perfect Logo
- Flash Microsites
- Choosing a Web Designer the Easy Way
- Flash Website Development and Design
- web design – strategically using animation – part 1
- web design – strategically using animation – part 2
- web design – 10 simple rules to follow – part 1
- web design – ten simple rules to follow – part 2
- web design – ten simple rules to follow – part 3
- the basic principles of great logo design
- Improving your ecommerce strategy
- e-commerce website & myob-commerce website
- design for delivery
- myob ecommerce website integration
- Finding the Right Website Designer
- web designs - keep it simple!
- website designs tips to ensure an optimal website design
- Logo Design
- what is flash?
- html 5 – what to expect
- choosing the right domain for your online business
- website security: protect your web application with a web vulnerability scanner
- choosing a cms
- typography for web design
- overcome creative block - tips for copywriting and web design professionals
- the 404 era in web design
- choosing a qualified web designer
- creative web design
- 4 good logo design tests
- Web Design Dublin
- choosing the right web designers can make all the difference
- Web Design Ireland
- Web Design Jobs Available
- Choosing the Right Company
- Web Design Services
- Web Design Elements
- Web Design By Industry
- Ecommerce Web Design
- SEO - Search Engine Optimisation
- Online Marketing
- 3d Architectural Renders
- Mobile Web Design
choosing a qualified web designer
Business owners should always be cautious when considering
hiring a web designer. There are a lot of web
designers out there, but only a few are truly qualified. The first
step for many business owners is typically to ask the web designer
for a portfolio of their previous work. At this stage, some web
designers will get hired simply based on the presentation of their portfolio.
This, however, is never enough to truly qualify a web designer. The phrase
‘their work speaks for itself’ doesn’t apply here.
Instead, business
owners should create a checklist and ask the web designer if he/she can manually
write HTML code, work with programming languages like
JavaScript, create meta-tags to optimise
websites for search engines, create forms, experiment with interactive
content and work with websites in a secure server environment. The web
designer should be able to prove that they are competent in all these
areas. Any web designer worth his weight in code will have all these skills and
many more.
To further verify the web designer as a
qualified professional it’s worthwhile to quiz them on what programs they use to
create websites. Although it can be said that quality websites can be created
with cheap software and poor websites can be created with expensive software,
it’s not really a rule to adhere to when qualifying a web
designer. The truth is that very few professional web designers’
use programs like Microsoft FrontPage, so if this comes up in
conversation, it’s a good idea to ask why they use that program, instead of
something more advanced, like Adobe Dreamweaver. If the web designer comments
that he/she works only with plain text editors, this can actually be considered
a great talent, because it means they write all their code by hand. This shows
that the web designer has a very thorough understanding of web
design.



