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How to Find a Reliable Website Design Company
The Internet has opened the gateway to world-wide communication. Having a solid website for your business can expand your clientele from local to global. It allows your business to remain open for twenty-four hours, reaching every possible customer anywhere in the world at any time. This makes finding a reliable website design company of utmost importance when considering the global image of your business. At CODANK, a Charlotte based web design company, we work closely with prospective clients to make sure we understand the design services, or web development services, they need to promote their business model. There are three important aspects to finding a website design company that will portray your business in an accurate, eye-catching way.
Credentials:
The first thing to look for when searching for a reliable website design company are the credentials of the web design team. Check out their website. If you arent impressed by the web design firms own website, its hard to gauge how well they portray their clients businesses on the web. Being impressed by their website doesnt mean you have to approve of its stylejust make sure the necessary website components are there. They should have, at a minimum, an “about” section (who are they and what do they do?), a content section (including blogs, some type of portfolio, and some stats about their company), and contact information. They should also have a site that is eye-catching and alluring, but also easy to access and comprehend. Funky icons and excessive coloring may mean that they care more about pizzazz and not enough about making websites user friendly.
After looking at the web design companys site, you should be sure that they offer after sales support. This means that they will work hard to ensure that you are 100% satisfied with your website after its creation. They should offer regular updates and edits to your site as your business continues to grow. They should also respond to your suggestions in a timely manner. If the company does not offer after sales support, you might as well be making the website yourself using a free template. You are paying this company to make a solid website for your company; therefore the site should meet your every need. Remember, this is website represents your business on a global scale. It should portray your business exactly as you see fit.
Once in contact with the website design team, make sure that they ask lots of questions about your business. Their job is to portray your business model in your image. They may know how to create the most important pieces of a website, but you know exactly how you want your site to look and what information is vital to your business model. A good website design team, therefore, will work directly with you to ensure complete satisfaction.
Portfolio:
As I said before, when checking out the website design companys website you should find some sort of portfolio. Who have they worked with before? What other websites have they produced? Its important that they have unique, varied designs for each of their clients websites. You want to make sure that they approach your business site from a new angle; having a unique brand for your business is key to getting lots of website traffic and drawing in lots of customers. Also, make sure they create websites from scratch. You want your business to have an original website, not one designed from a template. The design firms portfolio should showcase the website design firms ability to create original, varied websites for each of their clients.
References:
Make sure you ask for a list of client names and numbers and find out what this company has done in the past. Call previous clients and ask about customer service. The website design firm should be reliable in terms of meeting your needs. They should communicate openly with you, even if you know nothing about web design. As I mentioned before, they should also heed your suggestions and revisions. If you like their work and if their previous clients assure you they are reliable, they could be the company for you.
If you are currently searching for a reliable and reputable design team, contact CODANK.
CODANK is a top rated Web Design and Internet Marketing firm located in Charlotte, NC. We are dedicated to providing the highest quality, cost effective custom software development services, delivering a broad range of business consulting and outsourcing services.
What is a denial of service attack?
Technology has become more advanced, and with it, hack attacks in the online world are increasing at an alarming rate. The only way to avoid attacks like DoS or DDoS, is to have intelligent monitoring of your web traffic.
By using an automated self-learning system, risks can be mitigated. Thus you can sleep without worry at nights, knowing that your online content and confidential data sees no threat or interruption. But unfortunately, the initial costs of setting up such a system is way too high, and can only be afforded by huge corporate establishments.
A recent example of DoS attack is the infamous website fliphtml5.com that sells automation desktop tools for online publishers and marketers. Its not certain as to whether the attack is DoS as mentioned in above message, but at the time of writing this article, the site is surely missing all its content on the server none of the indexed urls in Google are working.
What is a denial of service attack?
Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attacks are by far the most notorious kinds of attacks. That is because, any level of hacker with a small investment can bombard a victim website, with millions of requests, and make them look like they are legit users. This eventually crashes the web server, and makes the site offline, requiring manual intervention to bring it back online.
If the victim website is an ecommerce site, that means thousands of dollars lost in sales, and a bad reputation. Identifying a DDoS attack early is the best option. You can have firewall systems that allow blocking traffic that is not desirable. Sudden spikes in traffic is a red flag, and must be closely monitored. Those are the works of a Network Engineer. More details here.
But what can small business owners do? They cannot afford expensive DDoS prevention hardware, or perhaps, not even hire experienced network professionals, who can configure the firewall softwares. They are simply at the mercy of their hosting company. And if the hosting company cannot afford that infrastructure, then that is bad risky business. Don’t worry, we do offer a solution too, just hang on
Besides prevention, one critical aspect is recovery of an offline website. Each minute lost, is valuable sales and reputation lost.
Coversine can help small business owners take care of their website uptime, or even their VPS / dedicated server uptime, at affordable costs. And no, we are not talking about a monitoring service that notifies you whenever your site goes down. We offer the complete exclusive service of maintaining the site / server uptime, which means we regularly backup your site on your behalf, and recover your site, in case of hacks/attacks/etc. Click the links above to learn more.
Of course, prevention is better than cure, and that’s why the subscriptions above, take care of performance checks, and regular updates to softwares and apps as well. You are in good hands, when you are with us
rest assured!
What is a denial of service attack?
Technology has become more advanced, and with it, hack attacks in the online world are increasing at an alarming rate. The only way to avoid attacks like DoS or DDoS, is to have intelligent monitoring of your web traffic.
By using an automated self-learning system, risks can be mitigated. Thus you can sleep without worry at nights, knowing that your online content and confidential data sees no threat or interruption. But unfortunately, the initial costs of setting up such a system is way too high, and can only be afforded by huge corporate establishments.
A recent example of DoS attack is the infamous website fliphtml5.com that sells automation desktop tools for online publishers and marketers. Its not certain as to whether the attack is DoS as mentioned in above message, but at the time of writing this article, the site is surely missing all its content on the server none of the indexed urls in Google are working.
What is a denial of service attack?
Denial of Service (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDos) attacks are by far the most notorious kinds of attacks. That is because, any level of hacker with a small investment can bombard a victim website, with millions of requests, and make them look like they are legit users. This eventually crashes the web server, and makes the site offline, requiring manual intervention to bring it back online.
If the victim website is an ecommerce site, that means thousands of dollars lost in sales, and a bad reputation. Identifying a DDoS attack early is the best option. You can have firewall systems that allow blocking traffic that is not desirable. Sudden spikes in traffic is a red flag, and must be closely monitored. Those are the works of a Network Engineer. More details here.
But what can small business owners do? They cannot afford expensive DDoS prevention hardware, or perhaps, not even hire experienced network professionals, who can configure the firewall softwares. They are simply at the mercy of their hosting company. And if the hosting company cannot afford that infrastructure, then that is bad risky business. Don’t worry, we do offer a solution too, just hang on
Besides prevention, one critical aspect is recovery of an offline website. Each minute lost, is valuable sales and reputation lost.
Coversine can help small business owners take care of their website uptime, or even their VPS / dedicated server uptime, at affordable costs. And no, we are not talking about a monitoring service that notifies you whenever your site goes down. We offer the complete exclusive service of maintaining the site / server uptime, which means we regularly backup your site on your behalf, and recover your site, in case of hacks/attacks/etc. Click the links above to learn more.
Of course, prevention is better than cure, and that’s why the subscriptions above, take care of performance checks, and regular updates to softwares and apps as well. You are in good hands, when you are with us
rest assured!