Do you need a website? Are you looking for WordPress web development services and have already sought web design quotes?
While WordPress has made it quite affordable to build a website, you must ensure that, in addition to the cost of web design, you also consider a few other essential elements in the web development quote provided by your web developer.
This blog post will help you to learn about 7 essential elements that your web design quotation must have.
#1 Responsive Web Design
Responsive web design seems to be an essential and mandatory requirement of WordPress website development. Surprisingly, many web developers or companies still don’t take care of responsiveness.
So, you must ensure that your WordPress web designer mentions specifically in the website proposal that he/she will provide you with a responsive website.
#2 Assistance to Upload Content
Although a CMS website can enable you to manage the content yourself, you may need your web developer’s help initially to upload all the content to launch your website.
If you have a lot of content to put on the website and want your web developer to assist you in uploading, just make sure your website developer has already mentioned this service in his web development quote.
#3 Assistance To Deploy The Website
Although it’s pretty apparent that all web developers deploy their clients’ websites on their respective live servers, a few clients have complained that their previous web developers used to charge additional money to deploy their websites.
So, before you hire a WordPress developer and proceed with your website development, make sure that his proposal also includes a clause about website deployment.
#4 Web Design Service Warranty
Has your web designer mentioned the post-launch warranty period in his web design quote? If not, make sure to add this.
It’s expected that after you launch your website, you may experience minor bugs or issues you may have ignored or overlooked. Therefore, you must be able to approach your web developer and get that issue resolved.
Again, a few WordPress developers would charge additionally, even if you report minor bugs to them after a few weeks of launch.
Therefore, you must ensure that your WordPress web development quotation mentions a warranty period.
For example, in my web design quote, I always include a warranty period of 6 months.
#5 Hourly Web Development Charges
Website development is not a one-time job. It’s a process. Regularly improve your website to serve potential customers and outrank the competition.
How much will your web developer charge to develop new features on your website? Be sure to ask him to add his/her hourly charges to their web design quote.
#6 Inclusion of CMS
A CMS (Content Management System) enables you to manage the content on your website without the help of any web developer. In other words, CMS helps you to save money and time by doing minor changes on your website yourself rather than hiring & paying your web developer each time you have new things to do.
Most web developers prefer to build websites using CMS only, but you must ensure that their web development proposal mentions a CMS platform like WordPress.
#7 SEO Plugin/Modules
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is equally important as the website’s existence, especially if you expect to grow your revenue through your business website. Because unless your website has targeted visitors, you can’t expect to get business through your website.
SEO is always one of the best options for attracting targeted visitors to any website. Therefore, you must ensure that your web design quotation includes the installation of an SEO plugin on your website.
The plugin and your web development proposal must also state that your website will have SEO-friendly codes and URLs.