I own a small business in downtown Dallas Texas. I wanted to create a website to help promote my business. At first I tried to do it myself. This was not something that I had the time or the skills to do, so I quickly gave up on that and decided to hire a professional. My business is not a large business and I only deal locally. I decided that I should hire a local Dallas web designer. There are a good number of dallas web designers in the area, but I hired one on the recommendation of a friend. I decided to hire local, first because it is good to keep business local. All of the downtown businesses support one another. The second reason was because I wanted someone that really knew my target audience well. Who would know my audience better than a local web designer. He did a great job.