Online Presence is now must for every company, no matter what your product is, what services you are offering, having online website is must and making strong online presence is not easy at all, if you don’t consider it seriously, you might have website with no functionality or don’t benefit your business much, so people hire professional web development company to make them website which makes their business grow and even hire professional to promote it too.

Choosing web development company is a time taking task, you must put your enough time to research for companies, interview them like in-house employ and checking their expertise etc, because a professional team can make you a web presence which take your business to peak at the other hand unprofessional can vanish your reputation or further more can make you embarrass in front of your competitor. If you follow these guidelines, it will help you a lot in choosing a right candidate.

What are their technical expertise.

Check company portfolio, if they have many testimonials, check what kind of project they have did in past, because if your project is hi tech type and they have testimonial about simple projects, they are not fit with your requirement, check for project which are close to what you are looking to develop, also ask about w3c standards and ISO certified coding style, ask them that you need valid xhtml coding.

Cross browser compatibility.

People use different browsers and one browser behavior is different from other, sometimes one site looks perfect in one browser but totally vanish in other browser, so ask them about cross browser compatibility, Internet Explorer, FireFox, Opera and Google Chrome are important.

Website Navigation.

Navigation is the most important factor of your website, ask the candidate about how they make navigation, tell them that you need every link to be reachable in 2 click not more.

Which language they use server side.

If you are buying hosting from your web developer company than its not very important, but if you are buying at your own, than you must tell them in advance, because different languages require different server, ask them which language they use, ask about advantages and disadvantages of programming language.

Which database they use.

Different databases are use online, mySQL, Sql server, Access are few of them, ask them which one they use and why.

 SEO consideration.

And lastly, ask about SEO consideration, on page optimization is not very important as it is before, but still, you need on page optimization, it helps you in ranking search engines other than google, msn and yahoo and also doing SEO practice makes your page more meaningful to your visitors.

 

These are few tips on choosing best candidate for your online presence.