Ways to Save Money

In these hard times, money is hard to come by so you should know how to save it until things get better. Since it is a balancing act that is somewhat challenging, here are a few ways that can teach you how to save money. If you don’t want to lose your home like a lot of Americans have over the past year, you have to kill your debt first. You do that by calculating how much money you spend in a month and then see where the budgets can be made so there is money you can use to pay ...

Five Practical Ways to Save Money for Students

It can be hard to think of ways to save money especially for students since they don’t have their own money yet. This is because at times, for all the expenses while on campus, there is barely left to save. Although it is hard, it doesn’t mean that it is impossible for students to save money while studying. All they need is to develop good time management skills, strict budgeting, and practicality. If you are one of those who are thinking of ways to save money while on campus or even before you enter one, here are some of the ...

Six Simple Ways to Save Money

No matter where you look at it, there will be always ways to save money if the person has the will do so. If you are one of those who are trying to come up with ways to save money in this unstable economy, it is best to start with developing a simple lifestyle. When you are able to do this, the rest will follow. But, if you are one of those who are not sure where to start, here are some eight simple ways to save money. 1. Cut down on grocery or shopping sprees. Although buying groceries is a ...

Save Money Without Feeling Poor

Yes. You are feeling the economic crunch. Times are hard and you are finding it hard to even make both ends meet with the rising costs of basic necessities and the fact that you lost one of the part-time jobs that you are holding. This is the common scenario that people, not only in the US, is feeling. They may not have lost their jobs but they have certainly found it hard to earn extra. Can you blame them then if they look for ways to cut costs and save money? Although it looks like a pretty daunting task, it’s not ...

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Choosing a E-commerce Web Designer: 11 tips that could save you money

1.) Where do you get your illustrations or photos? What is your experience in graphics and illustration?
Ideally you would like to find a designer who creates their own custom art according to your needs. If the designer uses royalty-free stock images, your site won't be one-of-a-kind. They may only be used once by that designer but the entire www has an option to use this illustration too. In addition, there are many legal license issues you need to know about when using royalty free graphics. For instance, they may not be used as any part of a logo or trade-mark.
If the designer contracts out for custom illustrations, many times your message is lost and the design is not what you envisioned. Ask to speak directly to the illustrator. I think quality is compromised whenever you start adding other people into the project.
If your designer intends to manipulate stock art and the designer is inexperienced they will look manipulated. Look carefully at the designer's portfolio. Most of the time you can spot an inexperienced designer a mile away. Look for distortion, blurriness, jagged edges, edges that don't match the background, body parts or portions of the graphic that look pieced or copied together.

2.) Do you have a waiting list? If none, the designer most likely does not have a busy business or solid reputation, is working on more than your site at once which is never quality work in my book, or has other people doing the work.

3.) How long will it take to do the website? If more than a few weeks, again the designer is not your top priority and most likely is working on other things. I personally have other small projects going on for down time during a project but rarely work on more than one website development project at a time.

4.) Will my site be optimized for search engines and how? You need to study up on this. If your site is not optimized it's not going to generate any traffic, and unless you want to learn or know how, your website will be worthless. Check ranking in Google of several of the sites the designer has worked on.

5.) Can I update my website myself? If not, all your hard earned money will be blown away each month on updates and having the designer available to you is an entirely different story. There is no reason nowadays to not have a site that can be updated by you, every page, without experience.

6.) Who will teach me to update my website, how, what is the support like? Many designers install the eCommerce catalog and leave you stranded and abandoned with no clue of what to do. Many ecommerce content management catalogs are not that easy to figure out if not impossible all by your lonesome. Ask previous clients what the designers' availability is like after the fact, when the site is done and all paid for. What is the designers' response time like to questions via email? How easy was the catalog to learn?

7.) Why so cheap? Most likely the designer is primarily installing a catalog, no custom one of a kind graphics, no identity, no support, no one on one teaching, no search engine optimization etc.. So cheap makes me wonder if you are getting what you need to have a successful business and/or the designer does not think highly of their own work. It will cost you much more in the long run for this kind of site. I have received many clients who come to me to start all over, paying twice what should have been paid once if done right.

8.) Does your catalog require customers register to buy something? Think again if yes, most hate the inconvenience of registering and will go elsewhere.

9.) Who will host my site and whose name is it in? Is my product catalog installed on my host and can I take it with me wherever I may go? I would want the hosting and control of my website in my name on a server that the designer has no affiliation no matter how much I trusted the designer. A recommendation by the designer is one thing; control of my bread and butter is an entirely different story. You definitely should be able to take your catalog with you wherever you go.

10.) Does the web designer have recent testimonials and happy clients? Do these clients still work with the designer with updates and additional frills after the fact?

11.) What are the terms of the production? Get the details in writing, if something is not reasonable or standard for most designers, inquire more and find out why.
About The Author

2005 Cathy Gonsalves
Cathy Gonsalves is an Entrepreneurial Web Designer with 6 years experience. She primarily designs e-commerce using a content management system for client self update. She is best known for her hip web designs, custom girly character illustrations, and website branding.
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