Today, there are literally thousands of offline web design companies and firms that promise hi quality work, speed and convenience for very low prices. Many domestic companies have decided to hop on the outsource train and hire these firms, and have in many cases, gotten a lot more then they had planned on.
Yes, it is a fact that many of the offshore web site design firms offer extremely low prices for their web site design services, but many clients have learned that you really do get what you pay for. Many of the companies based outside North America simply cannot afford to offer the quality of service that a domestic web site design firm can offer. Also when dealing with these offshore companies, businesses need to be aware they will have to adjust to the time zone differences, which makes contact and meetings very difficult and frustrating. Sending payment to these offshore companies as well can be time consuming and expensive. Wiring funds and sending over-seas bank transfers to pay for web site design is not even always save and could possibly leave company owners or I.T managers vulnerable to identity theft and phishing.
It’s true there are many good overseas web design companies that do try hard to compete on a global scale, but the simple truth is that any North American based business that needs web design for the extremely competitive North-American and Euro markets needs top quality and contemporary design ideas to stay completive and successful online. Many companies who end up using the services of an overseas web design company often end up spending extra funds to repair sloppy design, poor grammar and bad copywriting of content. Unfortunately not all offshore design companies can deliver quality professional web site design. In some cases, some of these overseas firms are even fly-by-night firms who whip out as much poor quality work as possible over a short time, and then disappear with the funds from their clients, and work incomplete, or needing corrections is left for the client to deal with.
It’s easy for anyone to set up a company, and promise the world to you for a great price, and then do a poor quality job, or even disappear, when they are half a world away from you.
Even when a offshore company is genuine in their efforts to please you, the hard truth is that someone who is located on the other side of the world, really has no insight or concept into the north American business marketplace. Even huge companies who have turned to outsourcing aspects of their business such as technical support are now realizing the issues coming up with using overseas outsourcing such as poor quality of services, and the often frustrating language barrier issues.
And by far, the biggest issue you should be aware of is working with an offshore company comes with no legal protection for you what so ever. The laws in other parts of the world are very different, and when you choose to sign on the dotted line to hire the services of a company overseas, you are in effect agreeing that you have no legal protection. If the overseas company’s web site design for you plagiarizes content or products that violate any international copyright laws, you would find yourself hard pressed to find legal redress, and worse your company may be the one who has to face the courts if any laws are broken locally. There have been cases that some overseas companies simply disappear when a legal problem arises.
Contracting services from an offshore source for web site design is a “as is” form of business. You truly do get only what you pay for.. And that’s if you’re lucky.
