A Website Designer helps you to determine the page layout, graphics, text location and colors of your site
He may also do the actual computer programming and graphic art work for the site, or may hire out that work to a programming specialist.
Designer Skill
Manually write HTML code.
Work with languages such as JavaScript.
Create meta-tags and optimise for search engines.
Create forms and other interactive content.
Work with websites in a secure server environment.
How do I find the "right" web designer?
Strength
What are the designers strengths and weaknesses?
Communication
Is the designer easy to work with and talk to?
Is she/he able to communicate technical information so that you can understand it?
Look their Previous working
Look at some of their previous clients sites.
How well are the sites found by the search engines?
Do they all look the same? Do they load quickly?
Are they easy to navigate?
Do they accurately reflect their clients' business?
Budget
What is your budget and what is the typical cost for the designer's projects
Website Design balance with Search Engine optimization (SEO):
Some web designer know how to attract search engine
Don't using Flash in main page
If required flash function, it must add ' skip button'. Because many visitors don't like flash function.