Find the right website designer/hosting company for you.
Website designers/hosting companies do what they do best and you should be free to do what you do best.

• Determine a budget.
• Your website should "speak" for you, only a talented web designer can do this.
• Decide what your marketing goals are and create a game plan for your website to reach those goals.
• Discuss your ideas with the designers.
• Make sure the project can be completed within an agreed time frame.
• Set target dates for deliverables and tie payment into those dates.
• Be sure to have the designer explain in detail what is included and not included in the bid.
• Determine if your designer will teach you to update the site and the cost involved if requested.
• What the cost will be to update the site especially if there is time dated materials on the site. 
• Already have a website and is it up to date?

We hope some of these tips will be helpful in planning for your internet presence needs.