Don't Hire That Web Designer

"You should never allow anyone to put their own branding on your web presence. ... Most designers, once they ask for this, will allow you to decline, but the mere suggestion is an indicator of shaky practices."<p>Why? Many things in daily use do carry the name of their creator on them.

<i>Your website isn’t going to look 100% the same in all browsers on all operating systems.</i><p>I don't know where this one comes from, a good designer knows about style resets to reset browsers to a common ground. As well with the JavaScript toolkits like Dojo and jQuery, there are a lot of off the shelf widgets that look exactly the same in all of the major browsers. I don't agree with this suggestion and think that you should actually be looking for a designer who can provide the same look across browsers.

This is pretty simplistic and boils down to: don't hire super hungry, and over compensating noobs.<p>What about the evaluation of web designers who are either competent but lousy workers, or even those able to feign some level of sophistication and competence?