There are so many dos and don’ts when it comes to starting a profitable website design agency in Nigeria. Done well, it’s one of the easiest businesses to start as all you need is a stable internet connection and a laptop.

In this article, I will show you how to get started owning your own website design agency in Nigeria. Let’s get started:

What is web design?
Web design is the process of planning, conceptualizing, and arranging content online. Today, designing a website goes beyond looks to include the website’s overall functionality.

Web design also includes web apps, mobile apps and user interface design.

In this article, we will focus on user interface design which is commonly known as website design in Nigeria.

Why Startup a website design agency in Nigeria
According to the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics, Nigeria has more than 17million SMEs. This number is likely to increase based on the number of businesses being registered daily by entrepreneurs and as the country’s population increases.

These SMEs and entrepreneurs have a common problem. They all crave more sales, visibility and expansion as their businesses grow larger and larger.

They want to be seen and they will pay anything to anyone willing to help them expose their business to the world so they can make more money while saving a whole lot.

According to visual object dot come, Surprisingly, nearly one-third of small businesses (29%) plan to begin using a website for the first time in 2020. All businesses should have a website.

This is where you come in my friend, you design these websites and collect huge cash.

I have been doing this for the past 5 years now and it’s really paying well.

What’s a web-design agency?
It’s an agency whose discipline is to produce and maintain websites.

If you browse the internet frequently, you must have seen tons of websites, online stores and other types of websites on the web. A web design agency does so many things including graphic design, user interface design, user experience design, search engine optimization and much more.

Website design companies are expected to have an awareness of usability and their role also include creating makeups with tools like Figma, sketch and the rest.

As an agency owner, you don’t have to do all of these things. One or two is enough to give you all the success you want in the website design business.

Web designer vs web developer
A web designer is a person that makes the website looks great on all devices ( mobile, desktop, tablet). The main responsibility of web designers is to focus on the style and overall feel of the website using different software like Figma and sketch to make the site attractive.

A web designer can take one or more roles including User interface designer, visual designer and User experience designer.

While web developers are generally called programmers. They take the design created by web designers and convert it into a fully functioning website.

They use tools like PHP, Node.js, Python. etc. to develop these sites. The main goal is to make sure the site runs smoothly.

Web developers have several roles too including front-end designer, back-end developer, full-stack developer.

One popular tool you can use to combine all these stacks together in WordPress. WordPress enables you to design for the frontend and develop for the backend at the same time.

Its huge collection of plugins means your website could have as many features as possible. With WordPress, you could even build a social media network.

Yeah, you heard me right, that’s how robust WordPress is.

Read more on how to start your web design agency in this https://swicdigital.com/how-to-start-a-web-design-agency-in-nigeria-definitive-guide/