Given the differences in the nature of the two sets of talents, customers sometimes elect to use separate companies to deal with their website's design and development needs. This is likely fine for low-demand websites that don't require significant features and won't need to expand in the future. However, it can create a mess on both the design and development fronts for even a seemingly simple site. Take a look at why you might want to concentrate the design and development work at a single company.

Interactive Features

Many sites have design elements that need to interact on the fly with underlying code or even remote servers. Even something as simple as clicking on a box to bring up a list can lead to calls to the server's backend. When this happens, the design element can change based on what the code tells it to do. If the team at the website development company isn't familiar with the design principles, this can lead to unexpected behaviors that can adversely affect the user experience.

The more the front end and back end need to interact, the bigger this issue becomes. If the front end is sending data to the back end, you don't want design issues to lead to malformations. Especially if users need to send things like secure login and financial transaction information, this can get ugly fast.

Streamlined Processes

Another argument for working with the website design company on the code end of things is to streamline all of the processes. People from the company's design team can pass things along to the developers quickly. If you use independent firms to do the job, they either have to go back and forth or you have to wait for the design company to wrap up its work before passing things onto the development company. Everything gets more complicated, and there's a risk that the design firm might not have time to address the development team's questions if they run into problems.

Flexibility

Website design and development are processes that often require some flexibility. Particularly if you're going to be dealing with work that may require redesigns and new code over the coming years, keeping everything on one contract makes adaptation easier. The developers and designers will be familiar with the existing system, and they can adapt their work to the required changes as things come along.

For example, mobile phone compatibility was close to a non-issue a couple of decades ago. Today, a website's design and code have to play nicely with phones. New technologies will emerge, and you need the flexibility to meet users where they'll be. 

For more information, contact a local website development company.