It's time to get clear about what you want from a web designer. A key distinction is to understand what you want in terms of outcomes vs. approach. When developing a web property focus on the desired outcome and save the approach details for after the outcome is clear; this does two things: (1) keeps everyone focused on the goal (sales, leads, information, etc); and (2) offloads any approached based decisions until it is an appropriate time. A key indicator that a project will fail is focusing on "how" too soon.