Your Next Door Web Designer

Our office is based in Wickford, Essex, UK but despite this we work with companies across the UK. Indeed, most website companies will do that and we'd go as far as to say it's the norm.

It is interesting therefore when we see website projects advertised that are open to web designers in Southampton or Carlisle only. It's pretty much always the case that the customer is based in that town and wants to have the web designer close by.

It is evident that there are certain benefits of having a web designer very close. Primarily most of the reasons boil down to the fact that having a face to face meeting is very easy to do. Perhaps yours is the kind of project that requires weekly meetings and this can most efficiently be provided by a local establishment. No argument with that.

But do you really need to have regular meetings? Unless the project is a new, cutting edge proof of concept then when customers need to have lots of meetings with their designer this normally is a red flag to one of two things: Either the specification isn't tight enough or they want to modify and change things. Those red flags aren't just for the web designer they are there for you as the customer too.

In addition, if you look outside of your own area you may well find companies that have a greater level of expertise to what you want, can offer the same site at a cheaper price or have done similar work for organisations similar to your own. All of this might lead to you having a website designed at lost cost and potentially higher quality.

Finally, with the communication tools in the kitbag including video conferencing, email and the good old telephone remote or distance working isn't as hard as it once was. This is not to downplay the ideal of locality at all but simply to make sure that this concept doesn't cost your business money in form of an over-priced website or a site that isn't as good as it could be.