Does your designer think beyond the design - use these couple of sites to get an idea that your proposed website designer/developer knows all about a sites performance and its importance - if their own site isn't fast it's unlikely the ones they build will be fast.

In response to the number of Wordpress websites I have had to repair and improve over the last 6 months I am launching a new Wordpress maintenance service. The service items are all designed to make running a wordpress website easy and stress free.

In the last 6 months I have seen more and more broken websites needing to be sorted out due to supposed web designers using a template for a Wordpress website. In fact, I have done way more fixes than new websites. It’s not necessarily the fault of the template as these vary in complexity and construction. Often it is the fact that the designer has implemented the template incorrectly