So you have a web site, and you are looking to have it designed! You most likely have a plan for your web site, and more importantly a budget. You are probably looking for a cheap web site design service to keep from damaging the pocket book.

Now, lets review your options. You can call a local guy in the phone book and probably get a nice web site, but you just might pay top dollar! We don't want that, so lets look at some great resources that will give you a cheap web site, however it will also give you a quality design from a great company.

There are several web sites out there that allow companies to bid on your project, so people actually compete for your chepa web design business! Two of my favorites are elance and scriptlance. Scriptlance is free to start, elance requires a deposit. I have bought services from both in the past.

Here is how these web sites work. You will go to either of these web sites and you will post your project. You can specify the amount you want to spend, time frame, etc. Then what happens is companies will literally swarm to help you out with your website design. Oh, did I mention payments are handled through Escrow services to protect you as a buyer? Also you are able to read reviews left for web site designers, see how many transactions they have handled and more! You can even view their work.

The above mentioned route is one of my favorite methods to finding a company to design your site. Another method is just through good old research! Go out and search locally, call around and put in requests. This option works, however it often times takes a lot longer.

You will often times get a lot of requests on scriptlance and elance from companies in India, Russia, Etc - however these countries do have very talented people - just make sure they are reputable and that there is not a communication barrier! Many people get stuck with major delays due to communication issues. You can usually tell whether this will be a problem by looking at the companies profile and reviews.

Hopefully I have helped to give you some great tips to find cheap web site design services, feel free to ask with any questions you may have.