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Web design
Hire freelance graduates and students, get jobs done!
- Bear in mind this is a student so they may need more input from you to make sure you get what you want.
- Ask if they will use a template or do it from scratch.
- If using template, ask to see it to make sure that you think it suits your business.
- Look at other websites and make a list of your likes and dislikes so that you can give the student an idea of what you are looking for.
- Think about font.
- Think about colours - get a pack of felt pens or paint swatches and mix and match. The colours will not equate exactly but it will help focus.
- Think about lay out - do you want your customers to see everything at once on the home page rather than scrolling down.
- Check that the website format stays the same depending on which browser future customers may use to open it.
- Find out if the student is prepared to change the colours so that you can check which ones look good.
- Listen to their knowledge, if they say rounded edges are very difficult then think about something else.
- Fair money for fair amount of time.
- Make sure any photos you use are not subject to copyright.
- Set a timeframe.
- Agree overall fee up to a set number of hours. If a student is setting up a shopping cart and has never researched this before, you don't want to be on an hourly rate. Remember the student is learning from this.
- Think about where you would like onsite adverts to be placed early on in the design process.
- Creating a design and developing a design are 2 different things. Make sure you have made it clear what you are looking for.
- If you are only looking for an outline website design, it is a good idea to get the home page designed as part of the agreed package.
