Wednesday 15 October 2014

30 Questions to ask before website development

website developmentHaving a successful website is not so easy even if you hire a top-notch web development company.If you really want to have a website which helps you to grow your business manifold, then you must do some basic exercise which will make sure that you are going to have a successful website for your business.Because you know your business better than anyone else!

In this blog, we have laid down some of the important questions for which you must find answers before getting started with any web development company.

Basic:

1) What is the purpose of website?
2) Who is the target audience of your website?
3) How you want to differentiate your website from your competitors?
4) Have you chosen the colors for your website? 
5) Have you settled on the features of your website?
6) What are the mistakes that you don’t want to follow from your old website?
7) Do you have some reference websites that you like a lot?
8) Is your hosting server secured and renowned?
9) Do you have a fixed budget for your website development?
10) Do you have the contact details of developers who are involved in your website development?

Website Scope:

1) Do you have a finalized logo yet?
2) Do you want to use favicon?
3) Do you want to follow any tagline throughout your website?
4) How many pages you have estimated to have on your website?
5) Are you planning to have media files like videos, images etc. ?
6) Is your server capable enough to support heavy media files? If not, what is your plan of action?
7) Do you have photos to be used on the website?Or you are planning to purchase royalty-free images?
8) Are you planning t have online chat feature on your website?
9) Do you intend to have blogs and news on your website?
10) Have you instructed your developer to use only seo-friendly URLs for all pages of your website?
11) Does your website development proposal include mobile responsive website?
12) Are you planning to have multi-lingual website?
13) Which Content Management System (CMS) will be used by your website developers?
14) Which social sharing icons will you be using on your website (Twitter, Facebook etc.)?
15) Will you be accepting payments online? If yes, have you already signed up with any payment gateway (Paypal etc.) already?
16) What is the most important objective and measurement of success on your website? Leads, Call or Subscription?
17) Have you already finalized a support/contact phone number to be displayed on your website?
18) What is the estimated timeframe of your website completion?
19) Does your web development company have SEO expertise as well?
20) Does your website has backup feature already in place?

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