Website Designing –Freelancer or Company?

Around the India, there are over 20,000 website designers, ranging from freelancers that work from home up to large India based design companies that offer top-end design and cutting-edge services to businesses around the India. Who is the exact one to select for website designing – freelancer or company?

Working as a freelance web designer in Chandigarh I can judge that, any website designer’s website will look unique, attractive, giving immense testimonials from satisfied customers, showing good examples of websites in the portfolio making it hard for one to stand out from another.

Let’s discuss some pros and cons of hiring for website designing – freelancer or company?

Advantages of Hiring a Freelancer

•  Cost is the major factor when considering using a freelancer. Due to lower expenses, most freelancers work from home and have lower profit margins than larger design companies with staff costs, building costs etc.
•  Experience is often a plus point; many freelancers have a various experience and can turn their hand to a variety of design projects sometimes with years of design experience.
• Flexibility is normally something that freelancers can provide, working to rigid deadlines, working over the weekend or bank holidays and ready to go the extra mile when asked.

Disadvantages of Hiring a Freelancer

• Resources are normally restrictive factors as many smaller designers do not have the software packages or design programs that are needed for particular projects.
• Consistency is sometimes an issue as many freelancers will chop and change between employment and project-based work.
• Some freelancers may have to outsource particular parts of a design project that they either do not have experience in or have resources to do (coding, typographic, designing, development etc.)

So, these are some pros and cons of hiring a website designing – freelancer, now let’s discuss some pros and cons of hiring a website designing – company.

Advantages of Using a Company:

• With most website design companies, you get what you see; they have a track record with references with a fixed office that can be visited or audience.
• Most of the companies will have a team that can support a project internally without the need to outsource or subcontract parts of the work.
• Most of the companies have additional services that can be called in to compliment design work (SEO, development, PPC etc.) that make sure that the project is managed and controlled without multiple contacts.

Disadvantages of Using a Company:

•  Cost is the major point of using a company, as their fixed costs are higher than a freelancer (staff costs, building costs, profit margins) so the cost could be 2-3 times higher for the same results.
• Companies can be persuaded by larger projects, so if you have a smaller job with them and they get a larger customer in, your project can be dropped on the priority scale.
• Loyalty sometimes is less with companies, customers can just be job numbers rather people; there is not as much of the 'personal touch' involved.

The Conclusion for hiring website designing – freelancer or company:

Selecting from the many website designers around the India is hard and there are good points and bad points to using both companies and freelancers.

Many businesses or brands due to the recession are opting for using a freelancer due to the compact costs and freelancer websites are becoming more popular as businesses put projects or services out to tender so as to get the best costs back.

I am also working as freelance web designer in Chandigarh, a freelance graphic designer in Chandigarh, freelance WordPress developer in Chandigarh, and personally, I feel to hire a professionally experienced freelancer to handle your project smartly.