a guide for busniness owners and smaller clients alike.

1. A website is a composition consisting of fonts, colors, images and
   layout that match.
2. Good websites are hand coded by web designers. Using an editor like
   Frontpage or Publisher is a huge No No. See also point 10
3. It takes time to create quality website. Approach a web designer on time
   to allow for good planning.
4. Flash intros don’t improve your business. Most users will hit the ‘skip’
   button right away. Flash websites don’t equal ‘easy to update’.
5. Requesting a design change after the website is done requires time. The
   design has to go back to the ‘design table’ and the websites re-coded. See
   also point 3
6. A clean coded website and good use of keywords is more effective to
   search engines then an expensive search engine booster.
7. Copying a design or content from other websites is against copyright.
   Each company has to provide its own product/service description.
8. Without content you don’t have a website. A web designer needs content
   to provide a fitting design and to deliver a complete website.
9. You get what you deliver. The web designer is not responsible for errors
   in the content delivered by the company; this is the company’s
   responsibility.
10. Having a non-web designer modifying the website with editors such as
    Frontpage or Publisher will break the design and code.
11. Know what you want before hiring a web designer. This will save you both
    time and money.

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