When commissioning a web site designer one mistake you might make is to depend on your designer for future changes.

The automatic assumption by business owners is that the web designer will make all future changes. It is often the assumption by web designers too; especially as it keeps the revenue flowing from client.

One advantage that small and medium sized business have is the ability to respond quickly to your customers. For example, you may wish to change offers daily on your site or edit a section of your site that has confused a client. The problem is that web designers often take an age to make these small changes as they have other bigger work to do.

It is possible to have your designer create a website that you can make changes easily. Often updates are made using a fill in the boxes type approach.

If you wish to take this advice then you need to ask for a website that is built using a content management system, often known by the abbreviation CMS. A CMS can be expensive but there are plenty of free or nearly free systems that your web designer could use. Dont let your request for a content management system be an excuse for an inflated quote.

One issue you may have is that CMS requires some programming knowledge. Not all designers have this skill and may not be able to look after or setup a CMS.

To avoid having a website that doesn’t reflect your business or worse is embarrassing don’t end up depending on your website designer to make future changes.