Bangkok Website Design

Bangkok Dangerous, How to Pick a Website Design Company

Here are some of the tough questions you need to ask a potential website design company in Bangkok.

Ok, so you are super busy with your business, you don’t have a lot of time to benchmark companies, don’t know your way around web design concepts or even what goes into getting something online. This is totally expected, however, if you are going to shell out some serious Baht for someone to put a web site together for you, you need to make sure they are worth their salt. Ask them…

Have you done any international work?
Doing a bit of international work helps round out the design company’s experience and vision. If they have not, chances are you will end up with a fairly Thai centric site. That may be fine, but remember Bangkok is filled with a big diverse group of business people who generally come from countries where the web standard is much higher.

Will you be semantically coding the site?
This question may sound hard, but it’s simply to test whether this company is up to coding standards. If they don’t know what this means, there is a good chance your web site will fall flat on its face when it comes to SEO, scalability and W3C validation.

Will you SEO (Search Engine Optimize) the site as well?
Design should include optimization of your website pages as well. It’s a fairly easy task and will get you off running in the right direction right away. If they rely on a separate company to do this, you may want to look around.

How do you test accessibility and usability?
This may also sound like a hard question but really it tests whether this design company thinks about your web site in the mobile space, from different web browsers, different computers, different connection speeds.

What sort of tools will you help setup to monitor our shiny, new website?
They should be monitoring user feedback and plugging in tools like Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, Historical Keyword Tracker, etc.

How do you measure success?
This is pretty straight forward. What do they use as a mark of success? A client nod? Payment? If that is all, you may want to look around for other website design people in Bangkok. Success should not stop at “Paid in Full”. Did they ultimately solve all the website problems they set out to fix?

Why Schawel.?

1. We read books, lots of them. Our brains are constantly exercised.
2. We solve problems by thinking outside of the box, on top of the box and far away from the box.
3. We integrate modern design trends.
4. We are a small, lean team. Every one of us are involved during the entire design process.
5. We are quick to respond to your thoughts, concerns and needs.
6. We are big advocates of semantics, validation, accessibility, and standards.
7. We use type and fonts to properly deliver the message. This is an overlooked step by most.

Ok, let’s get started. Contact us here in Bangkok.