What should I ask for in a contract with a web designer?

[Richard L]

Web site design and production and working to get a web presence has become a bit of a commodity. As others have said the web site part of this is something that you could find someone to do very reasonably but 2400 is not bad if this is a well experienced firm with good references and happy past customers.

The logo and branding pieces are going to take an artist to handle for you and so you need to be sure that you are getting both from any contract company you deal with. The best way to tell that is to get some references from other companies they have done this for and go out and look at those web sites and contact those businesses to check out their references. A good web site company I know charges $80-$100 per hour for their work so with your budget they would give you about 24-30 hours of work.

Here are some things that I would try to get listed in the contract:
High search engine placement.
Facebook page
Web page that can be easily maintained
A content management system so you can make regular page changes yourself?
Who is hosting site?
Domain name registration
E-mail addresses



Best wishes!