If I get a website designed by a website designer or company, then who owns the website at the end, given that I have already paid the designer for his designing services by this time. Where can we find designers who just design and are done with it?
it depends of the contact that u hve made with developer or company genrally the client is owner of the site. while u take webspace nad doain that it must be booked with ur name and u hve to ask to take domain control panel password and hosting pasword and change that as soon as u get . and it is recommened that u must check the information that is display in domain control u should check in domain control u can check these information either checkdomain.com,directi.com in who is option. let me know if u need any other assistance if u get any problem then please post ur domain name i will find out.........
In 99% of the cases you will own and should own your website at the end, as you said your the one whose paying for it to be designed and hosted. I don't think it would be a very good web design practice if the the firm say "they own" the website after it has been fully paid for. abc1234.
Not only would it be bad form as a Web designer, but it would also be a bad business practice. One thing I do with all my contracts is state clearly that the client owns the graphics and the content, as well as the general look and feel (the design). All I ask for ownership of is the code that goes into it (I'm a minimalist coder - meaning I use the least amount of X/HTML and CSS code for the job, and can do things with them that could probably even blow Jeffrey Zeldman's mind away at times). My code is written in such a way that it can be considered fairly unique; I have found that most people who try to adapt my code (even the X/HTML and CSS) usually end up breaking the entire site because they did not understand how tightly woven and integrated everything is.