What to watch out for when hiring a developer

There are a lot of honest hard-working designers and developers out there.
However, from a client’s perspective, there are some things that they should be careful of and that they should possibly question

• The cost of the project seems to low
• The cost of the project seems to high
• The only contact details you can get are a mobile number
• The only contact details you can get are an email address, and it’s a free one
• They won’t let you choose where you host the site
• They won’t let you access the site via FTP even when you ask
• They don’t give you access to any form of control panel for email addresses etc.,

Don’t get me wrong, not all of these factors mean that you are going to run into trouble. Even if you avoid them you could still “get done” by a “reputable” company.
There maybe valid reasons why the developer does things the way that they do, but it can’t hurt to ask.
There are probably a lot of other things you could add to that list and I expect some developers would defend their stance on some of the items I’ve included 🙂