Signs You Need to Hire a Web Designer

There’s that saying "You can do anything you want, as long as you put your mind into it". But really, when you’ve painstakingly tried for the nth time to put up a website— and failed, yet again– it gets hard to keep up with that line of thinking. Sometimes, we just need to know when to quit. It shouldn’t make you feel embarrassed or anything, since nearly everybody has encountered a point of frustration in their lives quite similar to the one you’re having, or think you’re having. Here are some signs to look out for so that you’ll know when you’ll need to hire yourself a web designer:

1. Website traffic has dwindled down in the long run. Is it you, or are the number of page views your site gets every month getting lower and lower? Somehow, you feel that you wouldn’t really be all that all surprised if your page views go down to zero. Wait, maybe it already happened? Either way, this is a sign that people don’t find the site appealing or eye-catching, since after a period of time, since most likely the reason that your traffic sinks down is that they don’t go back to your site again.

2. Most people stay only in the front page. How will you be able to figure that out? If your site’s front page’s page views are relatively higher than that of your other pages’, or maybe even higher than all the other pages’ page views combined, then bingo, your front page is probably the only page that your visitors get to see. You see, you only have about 10-30 seconds to catch the attention of people who browse through your sites. In that less-than-half-a-minute time period, they judge whether your site is browse worthy or not. Sorry buddy, but it seems like you’ve failed in their judgment.

3. You get a headache trying to decipher your own site’s text. This is a big heads-up. If you yourself, the creator of that site, can’t read your own content, then what more to your visitors? Most of the site’s information is conveyed through text, and if they can’t read it, they won’t be able to understand more than half of the site’s meaning and purpose.

4. You find even WYSIWYG applications challenging for you to handle. So you’ve installed that plug-in on Photoshop, Sitegrinder. And you weren’t able to use it. The reason? You thought it was too complex. Then you tried looking for a Sitegrinder review, to see how other people managed. You were astonished to see that they’ve been having no difficulty with it all, in contrast to you, huffing and puffing and doing everything, but nothing just goes right. You think they might just be pros, but the writer of the said article says that he just bought it. What’s wrong, then? You are, probably. You know the drill: If you can’t do it, get someone else to do it for you.

5. Your website looks as if it’s having an identity crisis. So much that you, yourself can’t even stand to look at your site for too long. This can go unexplained, because it’s so obvious.

If you’re nodding your head to some—or all— of these symptoms as you’re reading them, then it’s apparent: you absolutely need a web designer. It’s something you have to do to bring your site back to life.

Sitegrinder
Contains tutorials and such on building your own website from Photoshop without any manual coding.