Hire a Professional Web Designer or Not?

Pros and Cons of Hiring Professional Web Designer

Especially with CMS like WordPress and Wix, firms are uncertain if they should hire a professional web designer. In the previous days, when website design could only be done with codes, the question of hiring a professional used to be a no-brainer. Anyway, these days, many tools let ‘anyone’ custom design a website. Today, we look at the pros and cons of hiring a professional website developer, and so, you can choose if you want to hire one or not.

 

Pros of Hiring Professional Web Designer:

These are the reasons you should hire a professional website designer:

A High-Quality Site

Of course, you can use various themes and tools with drag and drop options. Anyway, hiring a professional web designer will give you a site with better quality.

Especially if you are running a brand, your brand colors should reflect in the site design. Trying to modify themes for that will be a hassle and not up to the point, but with a professional web designer, you can tell them exactly what you need.

Moreover, professionals know the most popular web design trends. They can provide your website with the latest features (say, Dark Mode) so that your site will stay up to date with people’s perception and requirements.

Site Design for Every Platform

Did you know that with Google’s Mobile-first indexing, the search engine these days crawls the mobile version of a site before its desktop counterpart while providing it a rank? This is to say that these days, more than half the population of the world uses a mobile phone to access the internet.

What does this mean to your site? Well, nothing, but you will need a responsive design in every size of the screen.

In most cases, you will use a desktop computer to edit your website. In such cases, you can’t say how it looks on a tablet or a mobile phone. Also, talk about the menus and touch elements- are they at a comfortable distance from one another? What about the size of the font and the content orientation in the mobile site version?

A professional web designer knows exactly what they are doing. They can build a site for you that will work on every platform.

Website Design that Helps with the SEO

In the previous point, we talked about Mobile-First Indexing. Anyway, there is so much more about a website getting its search ranking because of the design.

First off, the website should be fast. According to Google, 53 of visitors will abandon your website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. To make your website faster, there should be lightweight elements, compressed images, browser caching, minifying CSS and JavaScript, etc. (See, How to Increase Website Speed). All these concepts will be difficult to understand for a person who is not very accustomed to how sites are made.

A website designer more or less knows the basic concept of SEO and can help you maximize the results from the development itself.

Saving of Time

The trend of the web changes every year. Web design is one of those things that will need frequent updates and modifications. Not to forget the regular problems that arise; for example, the image orientation not going well with content no matter how much you try.

With a professional web designer, from the first, you will not have to worry about your time and effort on web design. Also, you will not need to go through hours’ worth of tutorial videos trying to figure what’s wrong with something on your site.

A professional web designer can make sure your site is always intact. Furthermore, they will make sure there are never any inconsistencies. You will get peace of mind and will get more time to focus on your core business activity.

 

Cons of Hiring Professional Web Designer

Here are the disadvantages of hiring a professional web designer:

More Budget

By doing the web design yourself, you will save a lot of money. You can get cheap themes at about $60 to $100, which is very low compared to hiring an expert.

Remember, anyway; it is all about being time-efficient. If you are spending a lot of time figuring out the puzzle of creating a website while you could use that time for doing your work where you are adept at, you may actually be losing more money by doing web design yourself.

In personal cases, where time isn’t a huge factor, you will end up saving hundreds or even thousands of dollars if you build your site yourself.

Changing Web Trends Means Needing Frequent Additions

Website design and trends, as well as people’s expectations from websites, keep on changing. We discussed it in the advantages section of this article, but there is another thing that goes into it.

You will need to call your website designer very often to make modifications to your site. All this will cost you money. You need to think about the long-term when hiring a website designer. If you are not making any kind of money from your site or with the services the website leads to, you will need to put a lot of budget on it as time passes.

Timeline, Communication, and Priority

This is the one con of hiring a professional website designer that you need to be very wary of. Anyway, it won’t be a problem if you go with the right website design company.

Web design service providers, most of the time, have more than one client. They need to share their available time among multiple service seekers. Due to this, they may not be able to give priority to a single client. This could be good ‘as long as they finish the job,’ but in many cases, the work may not be 100%.

Also, the website means a lot to the business brands these days. If the party building the site isn’t as serious and as readily available as the owner, this will make the website become ‘not perfect.’ It will especially matter if the site is very big, and a lot of customization is needed. Sometimes, web designers just ‘let things be’ even if they could improve on it. This isn’t a good sign when discussing long term.

 

Conclusion

Even if creating websites in today’s time is simpler and more straightforward than in the past, having a professional web designer by your side will make the work easier and better. Contrarily, if you have the time and are a little short on budget, you can learn the design by yourself.

If you want to build your website by yourself, be ready for a lot of dedication as website design isn’t very easy on the advanced level.

You can contact IT Solutions for the best web design services in Singapore. We have a fantastic team of Singapore web developers and designers, and we can negotiate an affordable deal for you depending on your budget and requirements.