Web Developer Blues
Over the past nine years, I have heard more than a handful of business owners complain about issues they are having with their web designer or the web development company they work with.
The biggest issue is unmet deadlines. Secondary issues are updates to the website and technical challenges that impact the user’s ability to use the website as originally intended. If you are like most of Lift Strategies’ clients, they depend on their website to be completely up to date and functional in order to conduct business.
One of the ways around relying on your web person to get updates done in a timely fashion is to move to a content management system (CMS). A CMS enables you or a member of your team to update the website with new content whenever and wherever they are, as long as Internet access is available. This puts your organization in the driver’s seat most of the time. Most web development companies can provide a CMS solution.
Secondary issues, such as adding additional features to the site or making sure that your organization website works in different browsers, and finicky glitches that can come up from time to time, require your web developer’s help. If you are not getting the help you need within an appropriate response time then I recommend switching to another company.
Your website can be an extremely cost effective marketing tool when it works properly and provides value to your customers. Therefore, you need the best web developer that you can afford in order to maintain an effective website.
Watch our video podcast on this subject:
http://www.liftstrategies.com/wp/video-podcast/get-a-reliable-web-tech/
At Lift Strategies, we can recommend reliable web development companies to help business market effectively.