Questions to ask while hiring a Joomla Developer

Joomla undoubtedly, is one of the most comprehensive open source Content Management System (CMS) that comes with plentiful opportunities to create well-designed, beautiful and user-friendly websites. Thousands of apps, plug-ins and modules further allow a user to customize the websites according to one’s area of operation. Whatever purpose you have hosted the site for; Joomla Development extends opportunities to meet your requirements, be it community-based portals, corporate sites, personal websites, eCommerce applications, CMS or others, in the best possible manner.

Enhancement of the Joomla Modules and Plug-ins require thorough knowledge about the CMS; in fact, it requires expertise over the technologies including scripting languages, servers and data base management systems, Joomla is based on. And that is why; hiring Joomla Developers become a crucial decision, especially for those, who are not aware of the advantages of Joomla Development and the unlimited capabilities it promises. When you understand your Joomla requirements, it becomes easy to frame questions for a Joomla Developer that gives you an insight into his/her:
1. Technical knowledge,
2. Experience,
3. Familiarity with Joomla Modules/Plug-ins,
4. Methodology to execute the job within the stipulated time frame,
5. Understanding about clients’ (your) project, and the most important factor,
6. Innovation and creativity, he/she can bring to your project.

You can understand all these fundamentals, only when you frame significant questions for Joomla Developers. So, it is better to prepare multiple sets of questions in order to understand the six above mentioned capabilities of them. Some of the examples are:

Judging technical expertise:

• What are the basic requirements for Joomla site?
• What are the scripting languages do you know?
• How these languages are significant for Joomla Development?
• What are the servers and data base management systems, you are familiar with?
• Is database design crucial? How? What do you know about database encryption?
• How comfortable you are with SQL?
• What are Inner Join and an Outer Join?

Judging Experience:

• What are the projects you have undertaken?
• What are the modules, you have achieved expertise in?
• How your project management approach is different from others?
• Who else do you need to help you? Do you hire other experts to execute different stages of Joomla Development?

Judging familiarity with Joomla Modules/Plug-ins:

• Why one should choose Joomla over scores of other Content Management Systems for one’s website?
• Is it secure? Can you tell us about the security features of Joomla in brief?
• Does Joomla Development really make a difference?
• What are your expertise that can assist us in all-inclusive development of available modules and plug-ins?
• What the limitations with Joomla Development? How are you going to address these limitations?
• Can we run our website in multiple languages?
• What do you know about JRoute and MVC architecture?

Methodology to execute the job within the stipulated time frame:

• How your Joomla Development approach is noteworthy?
• What are the factors that can assure the successful completion of the project?
• How often would be able to provide support to us after the completion of the project?
• Understanding about clients’ (your) project:
• Have you handled any such project in the past?
• How you can differentiate our website from similar projects, you have handled in the past?
• Do you have any expert, who specializes in such project?

Innovation and creativity:

• What are the unique applications, you can incorporate in our project?
• How you can help us stand out in the crowd?
• What is the significance of PSD to Joomla Conversion?
• How can you make CMS design more convenient for us?

Besides these sets of questions, it depends on your understanding about your own projects. Once you are aware of the requirements, you can ask relevant questions. You can ask him/her about the kind of apps or module integrations for example eCommerce apps, sharing on social sites, online payment gateways and others, you need for your site. You can also frame questions to understand Joomla Developers expertise on Documentation and Unit Testing.