When hiring a professional to create your web design online you don't always have the chance to see them eyeball-to-eyeball. You don't eat lunch with them and talk about the specifics of what you want designed. You don't get much more than some text messages or perhaps emails before handing over your money and waiting for your website design to be created.

This is one reason that many people would prefer to deal with a local web design company than an online professional who may be located halfway across the country or even in another country. They prefer to work with a website designer that they can see physically and grow to trust.

Then there are those who simply look for online website designers that present pictures and detailed bios of themselves. Websites that give more personal information and images of the people actually creating the web design are more successful because they allow customers to see who they are dealing with and make a judgment call based up on their own life experiences and expectations.

This leads to an interesting question. Do older website design professionals come off as appealing to customers as younger website designers?

You would be surprised how age affects the impressions of many people interested in having a professional web design created. When presented with pictures of ten different web design professionals, many customers would quickly pick out the younger, edgier looking professionals first.

There is an assumption that younger people will be more creative and will be able to come up with the edgy yet professional interactive web designs that really stand out in e-commerce today. While older people are certainly capable of creative thinking, it is assumed that they will not be in touch with what is happening online today and therefore their designs will not be as hip and up-to-date as those coming from seasoned younger website designers.

To some extent there may be some truth to this. There are certainly some older web designers who can create hip, fresh designs that everyone loves, but many of the best web design companies are run by designers who weren't born too long ago.

It's the same with music. Fresh, young faces in the music industry tend to create fresh, bold sounds that everyone loves to hear on the radio. Older musicians can still put out some top hits, but they aren't as likely to take over the charts in their older years.

A younger website design professional is more likely to know what is fresh in the web design industry and they are more likely to design with interactive features and the most current technological advances available.

This doesn't mean you can count out an older designer or assume that someone young is always better. This just isn't the case. It is something to keep in mind, but looking at work samples is the only way to determine how hip or in line with the times a particular website design professional may be. That's why it is so important to look at samples of websites that a designer has created in the past. This will tell you the quality of their work, the type of features and navigation they use, and what you could expect from your own customized web design.