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Eight Questions (you may not know) to Ask a Web Developer

There’s more to a successful website than a ‘pretty face.’ But you wouldn’t know that until you’ve had to pay the price for an unsuccessful, troublesome website.

12 min readJul 9, 2020

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Hand-drawn illustration indicating the signals your website sends to humans and machines.
Your website sends signals to robots, other computers and people.

Much of what goes on between your website and your audience depends on how well the website code is written. All too often, new site owners don’t find this out until they have to hire an online marketing professional — who tells them the site needs to be de-constructed and re-constructed just to get the site ready for effective marketing!

Certainly, it would be better to have the basic elements of success built in during construction — not after!

Many designers/developers simply don’t know about these underlying techniques, and some feel it’s outside their scope of work. So, it’s up to you to ask for them.

But, if you don’t know the right questions to ask, how can you be sure you’re getting a well-crafted website?

I’ve written this article to save you time, money, and the dismay that comes from not knowing the right questions to ask.

Question 1: Who owns my website?

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Christine L Golden
Christine L Golden

Written by Christine L Golden

Concerned human. Educated in Zoology & Biochemistry. Semi-retired WordPress/Frontend developer. Interested in patterns, systems and the essence of things.

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