You have definitely heard such words like – All businesses need a website to be successful. Finally when you decide to develop your own website, you are facing with another problem – who to choose Web Design Studio or Freelance designer? There are many advantages and disadvantages that both of them possess. Let’s look them through.

1. What is Web Design Company? It is usually group of people, some bigger, some smaller with various knowledge needed for web design and development. As a company it has law documents for contracts, bank accounts and so the biggest advantage of work with a web design company is reliability. Web Design companies undertake great efforts to earn good reputation and invest a great amount of efforts in pleasing customers not to loose it. If you need to develop a big website with complex functions and lots of pages, a web design company may work with you over a long term period to guarantee that this website keeps being effective.

2. What is Freelancers? Freelancer is an individual with certain knowledge package and usually with narrow field of possible tasks to perform. There are many of them on the internet so the competition is hard and so one of the biggest advantages of hiring freelancers is price. Freelancer often works by himself over your project and, as usual, a billing process is simple and he or she often has hourly prices.

3. Responsibilities. As I’ve already wrote – web design studios are more responsible as they usually have fixed geographic position, office, and common for firms infrastructure. Because of it you have more law means to affect on your performer while freelancer usually has elusive nature and usually situated in other city or even country and can easily evade responsibility for not quality or exceeded terms. Even though freelancers often use contracts too, web design studios are more responsible.

4. Reliability. This point is similar to previous. Firms and freelancers both tent to earn good reputation. So to be sure in your performer reliability find REAL testimonials about them, whoever you will choose – web design studio or individual.

5. Speed. Web design studios always faster in big projects, because they have team with separate duties of each member. And freelancer, even if he is familiar with HTML, PHP, FLASH etc. has to do each task separately and it takes time. But if the question is about PSD to HTML coding only, you can not say who will be faster it depends on skills of individual and web design studios employee.

6. Quality. Firms as well as individuals usually tend to provide superior quality to earn good testimonials and reputation. However there are many unfair and negligent performers among both. So choose carefully.

Conclusion: If you have big, complex project you definitely want to hire web design studio, and if your task is simple and don’t require complex integrations and functionality, an individual is your best choice.