- A polished portfolio page is the easiest thing for a web design company to fake convincingly.
- Here's what's harder to fake, and worth checking instead.
Choosing a Website Design Company in Nepal: A Verification Checklist
A polished portfolio page is, ironically, the easiest thing for a web design company to get right regardless of their actual delivery quality — it's a curated showcase, not evidence of how a real project with your specific requirements, timeline pressure, and revision requests will actually go. Here's what's harder to fake and worth checking instead.
Ask for Live, Currently-Working Sites — Not Screenshots
Portfolio screenshots can be old, can hide a site that's since broken or been taken down, and don't reveal load speed or mobile behavior. Ask for direct links to live sites they've built, ideally ones launched in the past year, and actually open them on your phone: check load speed, mobile navigation, and whether contact forms and links function. A company confident in recent work will hand these over readily.
Check Technical SEO Basics on Their Own Site
A company selling website design should have its own site in reasonable technical shape — run their homepage through Google's PageSpeed Insights and check for basic SEO hygiene (a proper title tag, meta description, mobile-friendly layout). A design company whose own site is slow or technically neglected is a real signal about the technical rigor you'll get on your project.
Ask What Happens to Ownership at Handover
Confirm explicitly, in writing, before starting: will you receive full source code and admin access, or does the company retain control and charge ongoing fees to make even basic edits? Some cheaper providers keep effective control of the site (unclear hosting arrangements, no CMS access, no handover of design files) as a way to lock in future revenue — this is worth asking directly and getting a written answer to before signing anything.
Ask About the Revision Process Specifically
"Unlimited revisions" sounds generous but means little without knowing the practical process: how revision requests are submitted, typical turnaround time per round, and what happens if requirements genuinely change mid-project versus if the original brief simply wasn't followed. A company that can describe this process specifically and confidently has clearly done this before at scale; vague reassurance is a weaker signal.
Ask for a Fixed Price and Fixed Delivery Date — Not a Range
A company that can only offer a wide price range or a vague delivery estimate without first understanding your actual requirements either hasn't scoped enough similar projects to price confidently, or is deliberately leaving room to add costs later. A company that asks specific questions about your needs and returns a fixed price and fixed delivery date within a day or two is demonstrating real process maturity.
Check for a Real, Verifiable Physical Presence
A genuine office address (not just a residential address or a virtual mailbox), a working landline alongside a mobile number, and a real, findable Google Business listing with some review history all add up to a business that's harder to simply disappear if something goes wrong post-launch — worth weighing more heavily for a larger or more consequential project.
A Practical Checklist
- Request live links to recent projects and test them yourself on mobile.
- Check the company's own site for basic technical SEO health.
- Get written confirmation of full ownership and access at handover.
- Ask specifically how the revision process works, not just whether revisions are included.
- Expect a fixed price and delivery date once your requirements are understood.
- Verify a real physical presence and Google Business history.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the cheapest quote usually a red flag?
Not automatically, but an unusually low quote with no clear explanation of what's excluded (hosting, SSL, ownership, revisions) often means those costs appear later, or corners get cut in ways that show up after launch.
How important are client testimonials in this decision?
Useful as a secondary signal, but less reliable than live, working sites you can actually test yourself — testimonials are easy to curate or fabricate, a functioning site under real use is not.
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