If you are looking. At have a new website built then you need to think carefully about the design. If you are using a web agency then they may have designers and programmers, but if using a self employed person or small business these job roles may be carried out by the same person.

It is important to understand what your website needs to do in order to be successful. Make sure you decide what the aim is and constantly review the design to ensure that it comply with this.

Your designer will be the one who will be able to bring your ideas to life and most web agencies will always mock up a few of the pages to allow you to see how it will look before commencing programming.

If you are struggling for ideas or don’t like the ideas the designer has come up with then it is important that you find them examples of sites you do like. Have a browse for sites within your industry. Although it is handy to know what your competitors doing it is important to make sure that you do not copy things or ideas straight from your site.