| So the question is this: Should you choose a freelance | | | | it...most of the time the freelance web designer is |
| designer or a professional web design team to crank | | | | faced with doing the planning, the business end of the |
| out your next big website project? | | | | deal, the wire framing, the graphic design part of the |
| Freelancing has really become super popular over that | | | | project, and only then having to code and program the |
| last several years for quite a few practical reasons. | | | | whole thing to work effectively and correctly. |
| First of all, designers and programmers-the kind of | | | | It's not an easy task no matter who's doing the work-a |
| "geeks" (they're usually proud to call themselves a | | | | professional team or a freelancer. But one thing is |
| geek, after all)-are simply the kind of people that often | | | | reasonably easy to discern. A web development team |
| like to work independently. But there are also some | | | | that includes incredibly knowledgeable experts all |
| really incredible designers out there that much prefer | | | | working in synergy together is more likely to provide a |
| the camaraderie of working in a small team approach | | | | better balance finished product. No offence to the jack |
| to web development. | | | | of all trades freelancer of course, but it's just really |
| So the question is this: Should you choose a freelance | | | | difficult to be an expert at all different components of |
| designer or a professional web design team to crank | | | | web development-especially when some are so |
| out your next big website project? | | | | creative, and then other parts of the job are at the |
| If you're looking for professional results with a good | | | | opposite end of the spectrum. |
| balance of efficiently, affordability, and superb design, | | | | The analytical mindset required to logically devise and |
| you might just be better off working with a | | | | implement masterful programming solutions is not the |
| professional team of designers, instead of going the | | | | same creative side of the brain that puts together |
| freelance contract route. Now obviously, we're a little | | | | artful graphic design. The person that can work hours |
| bit biased because we are proud of our web team | | | | on end implementing SEO on the back end is not |
| design approach, but we'll still try to be fair and | | | | always the same person that's really great at |
| reasonable to freelancers out there too. | | | | managing customer relationships. Of course, there are |
| Freelancers might do a fantastic job on a web design | | | | plenty of exceptions, but the point stands. |
| project...but do they really have the resources and | | | | The moral of the story, so to speak, is that it just takes |
| depth of players to pull off the bench to really get the | | | | all different kinds of skills and ideas to make web |
| job done with a well-rounded game plan? Let's face | | | | development go around. |