It crossed your mind that getting a web developer that is part of web development company might just be the answer to your budget constraints. It's not off-putting since there are many good testimonials about outsourcing to a developer at a cheaper cost but delivering a non-compromised quality web development project. 

But you want to be sure of your decision, who do you call? These are common issues that continue boggle and confound business owners during their decision-making process. Perhaps it will help talking about the benefits so you can decide about pushing through with your gut feeling.

Quick Turnaround

It is surprising how many companies would want websites delivered fast, like it's urgent to be quick. Getting a website developed quickly is near impossible unless you can find a really good developer. The chief reason why so many badly-developed sites are available on the web is this urgency that planning is often left out behind the need to execute a proper design. It is not remote to expect web development companies to claim they can deliver your website really fast.

But remember that you cannot simply hire a freelancer to work for you even if they claim super fast delivery of your web development project. As is the case with most freelancers, they often have plenty of works that their hands look small to handle everything. It is also hard to convince them to drop everything even after you promise to pay big bucks so they can focus on your project. 

A web designer who work with a web development company may only work certain number of hours on a daily basis, but at least you get a fail-safe backup when the developer absent himself or herself from work some time in their lives.

Guaranteed Delivery on Time and on Budget

Since reputation is an important currency among web designers and developers, the goal is to strive to finish assigned tasks and projects on time and on budget. An established web development company will agree to sign a contract stating their allegiance to your agreement that details the amount of work to be done and the costs. It is your guarantee in case things go awry. In this respect, you can bank on web development companies than freelancers.

Access to Multiple Skill-sets


Even how competent and talented a freelancer may be, he or she cannot provide an all-encompassing service. You can rely on your freelancer to help build your website but not in the aspect of marketing or optimising your web pages for the search engines. In short, the option that your web designer can offer in terms of web development is limited.

A web development company can bring forth much more than you asked from it. It has  more web designers and web developers working with it, which means, at its disposal, it has more muscles and capabilities to offer, more edge in other words. The web design company can offer services aptly customised to your expansive needs.


Bottom line


For small and less demanding projects, hire freelance web designers and web developers because it's cheaper and they can offer appropriate benefits to meet your business objectives.

Detailed and complex projects are better sourced to a reliable web development company. Your site may be medium-sized or large that will cater to more than one type of user or your site's functionality will be used to measure the success of your site. 

A web development company, with more people and resources at it disposal, can help you build your complex and sophisticated website. 

In the real nature of it, a company secretary is a senior position maintained in both private and public sector organisation. Normally a managerial post, large public companies name such role as corporate secretary or just secretary. The attached responsibilities include ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements, including tasks related to ensuring that decisions of the Board of Directors are implemented. So why do we think you should get corporate secretarial services from a third party? Continue reading then.

The name may seem similar to other kinds of secretarial jobs, but a corporate secretary is not some clerical or secretarial service that involve encoding, setting of appointments, and all related to that tasks. A corporate secretary does much more than that and their role requires them to be the person-in-charge of an organisation's compliance with relevant legislation and regulation, including the role of keeping board members informed of their legal responsibilities. As representatives, corporate secretaries sign legal documents and ensure that their company and directors operate within the prefects of the law.

If a corporate secretarial service will be involved, they will mimic the other responsibilities of a company secretary including registration and communication with shareholders. The purpose is to ensure that dividends are paid and that company records are maintained. 

Small and Medium-Sized Companies Can Outsource Secretarial Services

Start-up and mid-level enterprises, which may not have the funds to hire a full-time internal secretary can now rejoice. Outsourcing secretarial services to a third-party provider can be the best alternative and such consultants can act as company secretary. These secretaries have high-level responsibilities like governance structures and mechanism, as well as corporate conduct within an organisation's regulatory environment, board, shareholder and trustee meetings, compliance with legal, regulatory and listing requirements, and more. The role also include employee benefits such as pensions and employee share schemes, insurance administration and organisation, etc.

For advice on the business conduct – from legal advice on conflicts of interest through accounting advice on financial reports to development of strategy an corporate planning – company secretarial services can be counted for. Public companies in Australia are aware about corporate governance matters that are important to board and company performance. Corporate secretarial services are thought of as the most capable in handling these roles.

It is necessary that corporate secretarial services can perform corporate governance reviews and that they are capable of providing written statements of corporate governance principles. They are usually tapped as executive to assist directors in these efforts to provide the information necessary in the practice of these companies. Boards, on the other hand, can tailor-fit principles related to corporate governance and practices to the needs and expectations of boards and investors alike.

What Are Required of Secretarial Services

Large companies require that their corporate secretarial service is capable and suitably trained. Experience is also a big factor for secretaries to handle these complex responsibilities. Distance is no longer a factor for small and medium-sized companies to benefit from the offshore services that company secretaries can provide from company formation up to the achievement of growth curve.

Graphic designers everywhere always feel intimidated by their big shot role models. They will look for tips and advice from these revered masters and follow by heart every tips and nuanced wordings given them. So for the purpose of rekindling that inspiration and passion, let us start this article in a sort of an open letter to a promising, new creative designer wishing to breakout in an industry that is highly-competitive and very tough. Here goes:

Dear You:

At your young age, the creative output you just submitted shows a lot of promise. I am seeing in you not only creative flair but you are obviously gifted with natural artistic ability. Did you know that for us graphic designers, such ability is vital to make it in an industry that is competitive and tough? From reading books or exposing yourself to the works of really good designers, you can only learn much. But you must remember that among other abilities, you must have a grasp of what visually appeals and works for the look you are trying to achieve. 

I am happy that your work have shown a unique way of combining creativity and natural artistic ability with the business side of being a graphic designer. I mean from the heart, and it's good and will serve you for as long as you wish to stay as a designer. Remember, you will also be playing a large role as a marketing professional so you must know when to apply your art and design skills to the corporate world. Let's be honest, you will not live by art or design alone, you also must make a living out of your talent. So live with that. I am glad you are not like the rest of graphic designers who may be very creative yet their lack of business and advertising ken subtract from their otherwise impeccable credentials.

Remember that among us, graphic designers, we agree on a very sensible business purpose: graphic design is not only about artistic or creative expression of passion, we also communicate a message and graphic design allows us to powerfully and memorably evoke the brand message. So if you already worked with a client, you will already have noticed that they emphasise the need for you to use your skills in designing to present the message of their brand through your work in the most effective way possible. Unless you will work for your own, designing for businesses mean you will help your customers with design that work and make money.

Finally, remember what Steve Jobs said? “Stay hungry! Stay Foolish!” That's not just an advice to innovators. You can apply that message to you so always continue learning and expanding upon your skill sets. Don't settle for your stock knowledge at this point. Strive and you will reach far greater heights. Study the financial aspects of your trade, expose yourself to good website and graphic design works, join competitions. These are a few of the the things you can do to improve your currency as a graphic designer.

Sincerely, Your Favourite Graphic Designer

With that, you are on your way to join the big league who also started like you – fresh and promising. Graphic designers must start from zero, and always and must remain humble to stay in an otherwise very competitive sector. 

Some say that it is no longer difficult to find a suitable web design firm because there are now a plenty of them offering service catering to the different needs of businesses belonging to a particular market or industry. 

However when faced with all these options, you must find the task tedious and challenging even if it feels like window shopping. To find and review the best ones, we'll focus on a few important questions to ask your prospective agency and see if they'll pass the test of truly good ones. 

1. What type of clients have they served?

Sometimes the website of your prospective firm already provide you the clues with whom they have worked for in the past and what connections they already established.  To get a sense of their clientele, look for their portfolio. 

If there are case studies, review how they provide solutions to client problems with their former websites and brand in general. Find also data supporting claims that their design has been successful in driving traffic and converting page visits to actual transactions completed. 

2. Are you impressed with their creativity?

Judging creativity is subjective but not all agencies are created equal. Some may be great in coding but not in design and vice-versa.  But the true test here is to see how well they have designed and still delivered a web page that is neither clunky nor non-functional. 

If they exhibit the latter, then it's an exercise in futility. The competition on the web is too tight that to accept anything less than an elegantly-designed web design page with functional navigation and features is risky on the profitability side of your business and the reputation of your brand in general. 

Even if you some really good content but if they'll read it in an unaesthetically-designed page, chances of losing them is high.

3. Are they marketing savvy with expertise in research, planning and branding?

Designing for the web must be matched by marketing savvy and understanding that their priority must be about pleasing the audience. To evaluate if your prospective web design firm meets the criteria, ask them if they understand calls to action. 

What is their branding experience? Have they developed new brands or have they worked to improve brands of other companies? Do they offer additional services like copy writing and illustration?

4. Are you philosophically aligned?

The weight of entering into a working relationship with a web design firm cannot be downplayed as unimportant. There must be a fit, even not perfect, between your business philosophy and ethos with your selected agency. In other words, you must be compatible as if a match made in the high heavens to work on a higher purpose. To test your compatibility, carefully analyse your design agency's manifesto or statement of purpose that they include on their site. 

Remember, these are just a sample of questions you need to ask yourself when deciding a design agency to develop a website for your business. So feel free to be guided and our wish is always for your best. May you find the right web design firm.