Comments on: How to Hire a Good Designer and Developer

By: Abigail

Abigail — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:51:05 +0000

I think it is also important to see what the designer’s policy is about copywrite and any other legal issues. Nowadays, many people want to get paid and may abuse their designing skills to gain a stake in your business.

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By: UBwebs

UBwebs — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:45:27 +0000

Great aricle and good advice on how to hire a designer . ask LOTS of questions, get references, ask HOW LONG they have been in busines… Look at their previous work . Thanks for the article – from an experienced web developer and marketing company!

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:59:13 +0000

That’s a large generalization. Sounds like you had a bad experience with this company.

By: kevin

kevin — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:02:50 +0000

I can say one thing: the web designers from India are not worth even $1. I have dealed many times, the quality of their job is extremely low. Since freelance companies are inhabited only with indian designers, I do not recommend to deal with them, example: scriptlance

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:42:01 +0000

You own a guy lol?

By: anitha

anitha — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:24:08 +0000

I hate of hiring someone for limited period because its doesn’t make much sense so i own a guy as my company employee

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By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:59:42 +0000

Yeah you totally need to… sometimes the most important tasks are the most tedious at the same time.

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sell textbooks — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:19:27 +0000

These are really great tips. it happens all to often, you hire a guy to design your website and 3 months later nothing. I hate the process but you have it down.

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By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:58:31 +0000

Yes, you should be weary of who you deal with and pay attention to the track record.

By: Inner Game

Inner Game — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:06:51 +0000

i have many friends that are designers and they tham selfs confess that considering many people just dont know anything about design ist very easy to give them trash and sell it as gold , must be careful

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free forex demo account — Sat, 01 May 2010 08:53:09 +0000

If you are not a top earning blogger the best way is to create your own designs. But oneday, if i getrich i may think about hiring a designer using your tips. thank you neil.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:08:19 +0000

Even though you don’t want to, it maybe a smart move right now to establish a better position when looking for or being sought after for projects.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:02:51 +0000

As a budding interactive marketing consultant to small/med business, so far my experience has been you can have the greatest ideas or even spot low hanging fruit to improve marketing (we’re talking A-B testing, or fixing canocalization) but it seems to always comes down to designer/development issues putting the brakes on implementation. Either they are married to using a retarded CMS, or the developer the business has been using is completely incompetent and tries to stop everything you want to do. “I can’t install google analytics on this page or it will break the site”- I can’t make this up.

I originally pictured my career as coming up with strategy for a company and sending work orders to the developers without having to babysit a whole lot, but after spending time in the trenches, I feel that I need to become at least able to get under the hood in terms of design and development or manage my own team, because the in-house developer/designers will inevitably find a way to stop implementation. I really don’t want to learn code, but after fighting so many battles with them to fix the most basic stuff, I think I need to be able to grab the bull by the horns or fix things myself if it comes down to it or at least properly manage/be on the same page with ones I hire myself.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:54:57 +0000

Right, the past is the past.. don’t worry yourself about stuff that’s just not working out. Keep going forward on move on to the next one.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:21:42 +0000

It is very important to be aligned with your developer as it only helps your level of communication.

By: Roro

Roro — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:10:19 +0000

I agree, about the dirt thing…

it is not because, you’ve had a project working well, that the second, with the same developer, will work well as the first.

Just want to add a little experience:

“if some things goes wrong along the way, and your intuition tells you to quit the dev guy, don’t expect this to go better, because it will not”

Save money, tell yourself that was a great experience and asset for the future, and move to the future…

By: Nathan J. Brauer

Nathan J. Brauer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:56:14 +0000

Ya, and what makes it tougher is that every language requires different knowledge thus you can’t hire just any developer but one that knows the languages your infrastructure speaks.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:08:36 +0000

Some of them are great, but most of the time they suck… you really need to be lucky to find the good ones who do it at an affordable price.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:07:56 +0000

Smart move… you’ll save tons of cash that way. When you need to get a pro, start asking other people who they recommend.

By: Neil Patel

Neil Patel — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:42:12 +0000

Unfortunately most people to expect it to happen and then wish they didn’t with their miserable results.

By: Guildford

Guildford — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:18:13 +0000

It’s obvious, the work or a designer and developer is different. You cant expect them to do design and develop.