Who do you recomend as a good web designing company?

well each design firm has its own specialties and strong points in each industry and project. Are you looking for something in particular to be done?

You should choose a good web designer who are expertise in your desired areas by ensuring that they should prefer to deliver products effectively before time with best quality and a minimum cost.

You just need to keep your eye out. If you want the best, then you will obviously have to pay a ton of money. If you want great, then there will be companies that charge VERY low and companies that charge VERY high.

Originally posted by phlint
You just need to keep your eye out. If you want the best, then you will obviously have to pay a ton of money. If you want great, then there will be companies that charge VERY low and companies that charge VERY high.


I don’t think that for the best design all have to pay a ton of money. To understand it well just I am giving an example which I have already posted to a different thread some days back.

Customer judge higher priced restaurant promotes itself as being better by the use of expensive decor, linen table cloth, costly painting and so forth.

Other things being equal many customers still equate with quality even though price difference don't always represent difference in quality.:)

eTech, I'm afraid your comparison is flawed. I wouldn't be posting here otherwsie, since the users account has been disabled.

If you want a fantastic end product, you will have to pay more than 200$, that you see plastered around a lot of forums. If you times that between 10, and maybe a 100 you will get a more realistic price for website development.

Designing a website is a lot more than opening Photoshop or Fireworks and making a pretty design, exporting it with shoddy (X)HTML and giving it to your client.

Ideally a company should research the product and company in question, both before and after the contract is signed. They should supply the client with resources, directions to learn how to edit the source code, 'easy edit' source files - Meaning seperate .PSD's or .PNG's not a just whole canvas.

They should give them edit notes, for what does what. They should also test the website to extremes, validate it and have it marked up 'semantically' (I know a few of you haven't seen the light, or will 'correct' me over what is semantically correct or not *cough* Bigbison) correct.

Obviously there's a lot more involved than mentioned above, but you should be prepared to pay a good few grand $USD for great end product.

Why would a website development company settle for cheap, not the best quality products if they don't expect their clients/customers to? Same goes with most restaurants actually ..

"Other things being equal many customers still equate with quality even though price difference don't always represent difference in quality"


If this illustration is not true then there would have only one company at rank 1st, we never would have ranked thereafter. We would have not listed those others nine company in the list of top ten companies.

I am comparing here DIAMOND with GOLD.

Actually I regularly purchase EXCELLENT designs for both Templates , Logos and Full Sites for a fraction of the cost out of Viet Nam and also the Phillipines. Everything is custom and delivered to specification.

I also regularly purchase fully coded Photshop templates that include Full Rights of resale on many forums. I have paid as little as $10 for some and as much as $250 for others that are very inticate VB skins and layouts.

The designing community is a cornocopia made of many different types. I do not myself use American Designers that much. Not because of quality but because of price. I use the Dell / Microsoft rule. If I can outsource in Delhi , Bangladesh or Viet Name and get a great product for 15% of the cost I would normally pay I go there. I now have a complete rolodex of designers who will literally design on a dime.

I do not even bother creating sites anymore. I can have someone else do it cheaper. It is now like changing your oil. Why do it when there is a $20 Jiffy Lube right around the corner.

"Other things being equal many customers still equate with quality even though price difference don't always represent difference in quality"


If this illustration is not true then there would have only one company at rank 1st, we never would have ranked thereafter. We would have not listed those others nine company in the list of top ten companies.

I am comparing here DIAMOND with GOLD.

I didn't understand a word of that I'm afraid, what are you getting at? Could you please explain a little better?

What Dell and Microsoft are paying as Salary to their staff members in India is approximately 1/5th of what they have to pay to those in US and both the teams from both the countries work on Development or Debugging of same OS or software. Would you say that the Development or Debugging done by Indians is poor coz they charge less for work ?

You dont have a farm from where you can get Good Designers, Developers or System Admins and you have to train ppl from different field or freshers or ppl with less experience to fit in your work policy and work culture. I would say that Quality comes with Management hard working and experience.

Whats wrong if all Countires work together to make it easy for customers all over the world to have website and email address of their own. It was very difficult for customers to afford $19.99 - 49.99 per month for hosting a small site before 2 years but now things have changed and everyone is getting opportunity to have his own site and email address. Hosting Companies have managed to reduce prices only because of Globalization.

I am not trying to abuse anyone in particular nor making any statement against any particular country. I think we can work together for betterment of Online Industry and we should take positive steps in that direction.

Conclusion would be that Diamond fits in Gold ring and both are incomplete without each other. You cannot carry a Diamond in your hand to show its importance.

Cheers !