| It's a well-known fact of life that it is easier to deal | | | | might be advised to go elsewhere anyway! With a |
| with a single person on a face-to-face basis than it is | | | | freelance Web Designer you are buying an individual |
| to deal with an anonymous company which employs | | | | approach to the design of your website: in fact, your |
| a number of staff and which, by definition, results in | | | | website will become part of their portfolio so you |
| a turnover of staff from time to time as people | | | | know they are going to do a good job for you. |
| move on in their careers. By the time a person | | | | When researching this article to write I visited two |
| decides to become freelance invariably they have | | | | Web Designers featured on Google. Both were |
| done all the moving-on necessary for their careers | | | | freelancers and both had years of experience. The |
| and, by using a freelancer you will be able to establish | | | | first one I clicked on, I stayed on that site for less |
| a degree of stasis. | | | | than 2 seconds - in fact, I didn't even wait around |
| While there is always going to be a place in business | | | | for that person's site to fully load. The second site I |
| for the Web-designing companies that employ many | | | | visited I spent 20 minutes on the site, reading the |
| personnel, for my money I would always use a | | | | information there in detail and, had I been looking for |
| freelance Web Designer through personal choice. One | | | | a freelance Web Designer at this present time, I |
| of the reasons for this is that, when I need work | | | | would most certainly have chosen this person - |
| done on my website, I want to be able to reach the | | | | without even having the knowledge of cost. |
| same person who worked on my site before - not | | | | While these were both freelance Web Designers, I |
| one of their colleagues to whom I would have to | | | | know the designer on the first site would have |
| explain all my likes and dislikes all over again. | | | | produced exactly what I asked for. I suspect the |
| My freelance Web Designer knows perfectly well | | | | designer on the second site may have been |
| that I hate video and sound on my website - and I | | | | attempting to move into the freelance market from |
| have absolutely no intention to explain all over again | | | | being employed by a web design company. The first |
| that 'Yes, I know it's cool, but it's my website and I | | | | company was all about what they could do for me: |
| don't want it - and no, I don't really need to explain | | | | the second company appeared to project more |
| why'. It wastes my time and, when running any small | | | | about how my work could further their career. |
| business, time is precious. Contact any freelancer and | | | | Perhaps I am being unfair, but that is how I perceive |
| they will know you by your first name and should be | | | | the work from designers employed by a web design |
| able to recall your site in their minds as you talk to | | | | company: give me a freelancer every time! |
| them on the phone - I say 'should': if they can't you | | | | |