Affordable Web Design is a rare commodity these days.  Many companies will claim to be affordable, even quote you an affordable rate, but you must be wary.  Hidden charges, development delays and endless headaches await if you choose the wrong company.

Starting five years ago many Web Design Firms began to make a killing all across the United States by offering cheap web design and development.  They accomplished this by outsourcing all of their development and design work to places like India and more recently China and Russia.  Sometimes the websites created were exactly what the Clients had hoped for and more.  More often then not though, the Client paid the price not in dollars, but in wasted time, lost leads, and empty aspirin bottles.

More recently these same web design companies have begun claiming that they don’t outsource their Project Management and Web Development.  This is true in some cases.  They do in fact have a Project Manager in-house, that talk with the clients and manage the project.  However they are still sending the projects to designers and developers overseas.  While some of the headaches may be gone, the development slags and hidden project costs remain.  The fundamental problems with outsourcing are not going away.  Time differences, language barriers and communication problems coupled with unrealistically low initial quotes are nothing more than a recipe for disaster.

Pick a company that does all of its Web Design, Web Development and Project Management in-house.  In this day and age do you really want to gamble on something that looks and sounds like it’s to good too be true, or would you prefer the comfort of knowing your project is in capable hands and that your developers are just a phone call way?

The choice is of course yours.