SWDA

Q: What's your name and position in the company?
A: Michal Zitko, Director

Q: Describe your company in 5 words.
A: Modern client oriented professional company

Q: What's your business philosophy?
A: Web design should be cheap in money but rich in possibilities. So all of our websites has CMS system, database, captcha and other antispam ability.

Q: Describe your office environment.
A: Full of light and books.

Q: Describe how your team interact and work together.
A: Everybody has own task. Graphic folk is not thinking in code, computer folk is... computer folk. So it is easy - where the first one are ending (paper, pencil, acrylic colors, PhotoShop, Illustrator, inDesign) are other begins (everything else from PHP to CSS).

Q: What makes you different from other web design companies?
A: We are rock solid. You will everytime get more you expect, because we know, what you will need tomorrow. We give you two year's guarantee. And we are DOING analysis before coding.

Q: How do you get the majority of your business?
A: By hard work. There is no another way.

Q: Describe how you manage projects from the initial client contact to completion and handover.
A: 1 analysis of customer's expectations, 2 model of website, 3 designers, 4 programmers, 5 SEO

Q: What do you think is the most crucial element of creating a good client relationship?
A: Telling the truth and make clear what is our part and what is client's part of work. Website is match of content, webdesign, programming, seo and much more. We can do all of it or only choosen parts. You can be first on tenth in Google. Your convert ratio can be 0.05 or 0.1...

Q: How do you manage demanding clients?
A: Promptly.

Q: If a client was trying to decide between a shortlist of web design companies, how would you recommend they go about selecting the right one for them?
A: Ask the questions and demand the guarantee: if I'll order that - happens this. Who will take care about site? About domain? About SEO? About listing in Search Engines? Why Flash? Why javascript? Why anything he paying for.

Q: Where do you see your company in 10 years time?
A: Website developing is like publishing - customers are our authors, we are publishers. We will satisfied when all authors will know our name as favorit publishing house.

Q: Where do you see the web design industry in the future?
A: It will not named web design. There will two completely different parts: information sources, well maintained portals-like websites, and others.

Q: What computers do you have use in your offices, PCs or Macs?
A: PC

Q: How was your company name chosen?
A: From a dream of one of our colleagues. He saw the logo, which is letter play and close to S.W.A.T. Because if you want a survive, you need the weapons (knowledge) and the tactics (multidisciplinary knowledge).

Q: If you were to give your clients one tip on how to get the most from their website what would it be?
A: Content, content, content...