If you are tired of your web designer, then don’t react immediately. The procedure to get rid of the headache is documented as follows. The first step is to find another one before terminating the first one. This is a secret mission because a person who is losing a job can make you lose a lot more than you can imagine. The point to remember is not to offer the job to an alternative web designer immediately. Do keep a time gap to clean the previous mess.
After finding a good alternative proceed wisely. You must extract all the access information from the designer before letting him know about his termination. A good excuse to request the information can be the missing records from your files. This is a natural way to request the details and it can take some time to proceed. Keep an eye on the web designer presence and do not terminate him before getting the following information from him:
• Website hosting information
• Where he registered the website domain?
• Which Content management System he is using to maintain your website?
• FTP
• Information about all the social media and google accounts related to your website.
After getting all the detail make sure to change all the passwords and deny his access to all accounts.
After getting the details next step is hiring an alternative and preparing a back-up for your website. It’s time for a conversation with the one you are about to terminate. Make him know all the details of the mistakes he made during the service and suggest him some points to improve his services. If you two do not reach a point, then appreciate his efforts and make him know to whom you granted access to the website. It is important that the previous one knows that you appointed someone else to work for you.
Now the newly appointed web designer oversees the whole process. You should trust him and make him clear about the previous mishaps so that he can take steps to save you from the previous web designer. Let him change the hosting service, and domain registration to make sure that only you and your web designer can access the website. You should also keep a record of all the changed access information to avoid the previous mistakes.
Web vendor lock-in how it happens?
When you want to be completely headache free, you pay a seperate service provider for domain registration and hosting service. The reason for this is, your website is hosted on the web designer’s personal hosting service and your domain is registered on his personal account.