- Web Design
- e-Commerce
- Internet Marketing
- Hosting
- Content Management
Well, there are thousands of students that study web design and graphic art, lots of fulltime programmers and also a myriad of companies advertizing their "expert website design". They all say they are the best and are creative and experienced and blah. There are also a lot of designers working from home after hours and on weekends
Well if you have bucket of money - I guess you can go to a studio and get proposals and documents and contracts and sales pitches and powerpoints and numerous designs to choose from.
If you dont have oodles of money, you have to find a good freelancer or boutique outfit that is talented but reasonable. The cheapest are freelancers, they have no overheads, but are there to work for you really. They are often available at all hours and don't charge you to send an email.
A good freelancer can provide web hosting, domain names, email, ftp, backups and will be very technical - ie is a programmer, not just a graphic artist. This comes from experience and training.
Also remember, they have to feed themselves so you might have to pay them some decent money if you want decent work. It shocks me how some people want the national geographical website for free or for $100.00