How to hire a designer for my website? Need an advice!

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1. How to hire: Just Google agencies and freelancers, shoot off a few emails with your specifications and budget and chances are you'll have to take a phone call with every single one you email. It'll be a long job but from their you get to ask and grill them on as much as possible, if they're local chances are they've done some local work so check it out and if your still curious maybe ask the people they've worked for what they're experience was. Also check their reviews, their portfolio, what kind of work they take on and is it similar to yours. There are a few reasons why don't hire from Fiverr. Fiverr is insanely competitive so yes you'll get a much cheaper price but also a much much cheaper service. You won't be able to hop on a call and pitch them your vision, most Fiverr jobs don't come with a guarantee or the ability to purchase a maintenance plan, most of the time you'll be dealing with people overseas which for a variety of reasons is a nightmare you don't want to go through, and finally an awful lot of them are just bad, they're overworked, underpaid, and as a result you get a pile of crap.

2. Freelance or Agency: Most of the time doesn't matter. If the freelancer is capable enough and you believe they can do it, then chances are they and cheaper too. Agencies of course are much better if your looking for top of the line enterprise grade solutions. They have in house experts for an awful lot of things but of course are much more expensive. Make a list of what you need, put it to a freelancer first and see if they can fulfil it e.g hosting, maintenance, SEO, graphic design, development etc.

3. Test design skills: Easy answer is to just check out they're past work. But the idea of "testing" their skills shouldn't be what you think. If your idea is to have them do a quick 30 minute mockup for you then chances are you'll pay for it, no work is free work after all. Probably just pitch them your ideal site and ask if they have done anything similar and if so ask to see it.

4. Cost: Well, that depends. Especially since they will be working with something you've already created it can either get more or less challenging from here depending on how well you did it. In both freelancer and agencies you'll be looking at around 2k minimum depending what needs to be done. If you have custom software or SaaS integrations or an e-commerce store or blog etc it can go as high as 5-10k and if its a premium agency maybe even into the 30k+ range. But hey that's what getting quotes are for and being able to specify your budget.

5. Budget for a startup: Well, how long is a piece of string? Your startup could be one that sells used workout equipment online or be a cutting edge med tech firm. Generally if your startup is based around software, SaaS, or anything else that means your website becomes more than just an online information booklet for your business then your gonna need a bigger budget. If you need the freelancer/agency to develop custom software then you'll need a much bigger budget. Once again though, specify your needs and get quotes.

6. America or overseas: Keep it in America, the same state if you can. If its abroad you'll need to pay in their currency, work with their timezone, if they're not English speaking you may have to go through an interpreter of Google Translate, if things go wrong and you need to take legal action then your going to have to sue in their country. Keep it in the same state if you can, you'll be able to take in person meetings, pay in dollars, work in the same timezone, and if you need to take legal action you'll be able to sue in the same state.