Michael Estrin quoted me extensively in an article for iMedia Connection entitled, "7 Vital Questions to Ask Your Web Designer". Estrin gets into significantly more depth, but the questions he examines include:

1. How would you solve our problems?
2. Who's doing the technical work?
3. What about content?
4. What about the users?
5. Who's in charge?
6. What if we fire you?
7. Should we use free code?

I wish Michael had written "open source code" rather than "free code", but really there is little to disagree with here.