When it comes to choosing whether to have your website design and built by an web agency or a freelancer developer, there are points to consider than may help you make up your mind.
Often freelancer designers and developers charge less per hour or per project than a web agency but there is a reason for this which may be enough to sway you.
Web agencies usually have at least a few designer or programmers that work for them. This means that if one of them is off ill or away ok holiday, there is still someone who can take over the project and continue working on it. This can be hugely important if you want or need to get your site up and running as quickly as possible. Web agencies often employ people with a range of skills so you should find that all of your marketing can be done through the same agency, such as your website management, pay per click advertising and social media marketing. This can be useful as it means you do not have to shop around to try and find someone else but also you do not have to worry about two people working on the site at the same time.