When hiring a web design company, there are different things to look at. Most of all, the skills and professionalism of the team is what’s most important.

Here is a rundown of the skills and professional indicators that are useful to see before signing on with a best web design company in Chandigarh for a website, a redesign, a logo or something else entirely.

The Ability to Design Websites

They need to be good web designers. This means, their portfolio shows signs of impressive graphic design, or, at least, not amateur hour. Also, determine what the WordPress theme is if they’re using the theme and take a look at what the default theme from the theme developer looks like. If it looks identical to the website in their portfolio, then it’s difficult to see how much “design” they did in-house.

The Ability to Create Custom Websites Not Based on a Template or Theme

Do they have the ability to custom design pages or whole web sites? Some so-called web designers cannot actually design at all. What they do is sell a site with a pre-made premium theme or template and make minor changes to colors, fonts and layout. This isn’t design; it’s tinkering.

Ask if they have custom designed a site and see evidence that this is true.

The Ability to Program Interactive Features

Some websites will need custom or interactive features. This might be a table of products with facts and figures and links out to an e-tailer. It could be a special feature that’s unique to the site that they produced in-house. If they create their own features as mini products and sell them to people that also demonstrates their true abilities. Always verify what they made in-house vs what they bought in pre-made and amended.

The Ability to Create E-Commerce Features to Sell & Take Payments

Have they made e-commerce web sites? Have they added a shopping cart and payment system to a website and got it working before? They should have experience of this by now.

General Professionalism

It doesn’t matter what skills the company has if they’re unprofessional. It they’re not polite in their dealings with you or they fail to deliver at all, then their skills become a moot point. They need to run their business as a business, not a part-time hobby. Even if it is a side hustle which is perfectly fine, they still need to be clear about when they can be contacted and how long they’ll take to reply to emails, etc.

Prompt Responses to Enquiries

There’s nothing worse than waiting 2-3 days to hear back from a service provider. You want to be able to hear back from them within 24 hours when the query was sent between Monday to Thursday. Expect Friday messages to be replied to by Monday after the weekend, assuming there’s no public holidays where they’re located.

Complete Answers to Questions

Vague answers don’t do you much good. Alternatively, if they speak in jargon and cannot break answers down to layman’s terms, then that’s a problem. You need good lines of communication at all times.