Three Amateur Giveaways
1. Having one person for design and development
Website designers are graphic designers and artists. They design your site to be user friendly and stylish.
Website developers are coders. They typically have a four year degree and years of coding experience. The most common problem with choosing an amateur is their inability to code up the custom features required to make your site work.
If you have one person doing both jobs, you'll either end up with a highly functioning site that is both ugly and hard to use or a site that looks good but does nothing.
Here at Fire Puppy we have a professional design team as well as a world class development team. Our designers have earned us the award 'Best designer in Albuquerque' and our developers are college educated individuals with the experience to handle your toughest projects.
2. Using Flash
Flash had its days, five years ago. It was used to create great looking effects, but technology has grown and Javascript can now accomplish the same effects, only better. Flash hurts your SEO, brings platform compatibility issues, causes your page-loads to be much slower, adds more strain on your server, and is generally a very bad idea.
3. The $500 deal
Each website we build is a culmination of higher education, years of practice, and hundreds of hours of teamwork.
An understanding of the amount of research, design, coding and testing that goes into a quality web site is crucial to understanding the price of a quality site. When our clients see the amount of skilled work required, they develop a greater appreciation for the process and a better understanding of the difference between an outsourced template site that costs $500 and a custom, professionally designed solution that achieves their business goals.