Yeah no Joke. We are on our 2nd Design team for my website the first one well was taking WAY to much time to complete the project the site was very unprofessional looking and well the database(s) would not link up correctly. There was many entry errors and well the temp site he made for us just was not the style or anything eles we wanted plus he just copied text and stuff from my temp / example pages i needed for the pages.

Offshore DESIGN = Cheeper but well quality sucks Or is Great (hit or miss)
USA BASED DESIGN = Expensive as hell but quality is excellent.

OFFSHORE Database Configurations = Cheeper and they are good
USA BASED Database Configurations = Expensive and good.

The team i have now is very good at both things the frontend design person i have is located in Kentucky his website is

http://www.niccodamani.com he is really good at design his backend team he uses his name is Ankit www.swiftthoughts.com they both can do great things for you.