When shopping for web designers I was operating under the following criteria:
-Quality of work
-Affordable
-Quick production
QUALITY OF WORK
Look at her portfolio - nuff said.
AFFORDABLE:
Clare was amenable to working within a tight project budget. Unlike the traditional web design company, Clare does not pay unnecessary overhead. She doesn't have a design team, PR team and a fancy coffee machine - that you are paying for, but not necessarily drinking.
QUICK PRODUCTION:
Clare's competition was quoting anywhere between 3 and 6 months for the type of website I wanted. Clare quoted me 6 weeks... we were done in 7.
MORE THAN TANGIBLES.......
It is so important to work with good people that you get along with. Clare is such an agreeable and magnetic person to be around. It really made the experience enjoyable and pleasant. Your web designer is an extension of yourself and your brand. Clare was like a magic wand. Take a look at our website... you wouldn't believe that she is allergic to sugar (we sell drinks with sugar lol)
She is organized and patient
ORGANIZED:
Clare in a really, really, really good note taker and very organized. I was often astonished that she was able keep everything straight. She set and met deadlines.
PATIENT:
I am a driver. I am time oriented and like things the way I like them. I would like to say that I knew what I wanted to accomplish from the start, but I had no idea. My vision for this project was spun on its head several times.
When I say I like things the way I like them, this is what I mean. Clare gave me access to the back end of the website, so I could see her progression in real time. Throughout the seven weeks (consultation meeting to project completion) Clare and I exchanged easily more than a 100 emails. A typical email string between Clare and I would go something like this:
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Clare,
I'm looking at the website, looks great, but can we change:
X
Y
Z
Oh almost forgot this...
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(2 hours to 12 hours later)
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Sander,
I have changed x to z. I was also thinking that we could do this, this and this...
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Typically these emails would be followed by a phone conversation. Clare was always available. Over the course the project we might have spent over 20 hours discussing the minutia of spacing and consumer psychology as it relates to the hues of navy blues.
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