2006-09-09 23:30:56 · 6 answers · asked by emagirl 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
Depends on if you are going to do it alone or work for someone. My friend after graduating started at $15/hr this was a few months ago. She now makes $18/hr as a contractor not employee. The bad thing with being the contractor is you have to take out your own taxes and no benefits. I started designing from my home. I started charging people $25.00 per hour and as I got more clients, and got better, I currently charge$50/hr.
Make the best site for yourself that you can. People want to see bells and whistles but don't add too much. Start asking around. I find that anyone who has some kind of business either needs a site or knows someone who does. I try and be honest and understand budgetary constraints of the small bussinesses I deal with.
As far as advertising my site, I get some work from people searching for me on the web. I target my local area and being listed in Google and Yahoo local has helped. I do have google adwords and Yahoo. I don't see much traffic from it. I am listed in free listing services like www.marketingtool.com . I actually get quite a few people from them. The biggest pull to your site is the little "designed by" www.Millswebshop.com link at the bottom of the sites I have done. If you make a great site people will want to know who did it. Make sure you state in your contract that the site will include a link back to your site and that you are allowed to use thier site for portfolio purposes. You will want to show your portfolio on your site. That is how people are going to measure your work.
Their is money to be made still, any business needs a site and they know that. Business owners don't have time to learn html along with driving a business. Communicate to them that they want a professional looking site because that is the image they are protraying.
Enought said....
Good Luck
2006-09-10 01:57:25 · answer #1 · answered by Michelle M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As I have said other places, I run a web hosting company and also do web designing. Unfortunately, we're a dime a dozen. If you look up web designing as well as web hosting, there are hundreds of thousands of us out there.
To answer your question, unless you happen to be the best of the best, don't expect to make much. Best way to go about it is to start local, talk to small businesses that do not have a website (Check first, don't ask them) and offer to do their site at a very reasonable price if they will allow you to use them as a reference and in your portfolio. Keep doing that until you have a large portfolio then branch out into your neighboring cities and work your way up.
If you plan on relying on the internet to find customers, you'd be better off just throwing away your computer, for as much good as it will do you.
2006-09-09 23:34:10 · answer #2 · answered by iswd1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the link, but it was an official American carrier researches website for high school students, who were having difficulty in choosing a job. It said 25.000-40.000$ per year.
My experience is that it depends on the platform (html/flash/php/asp...), the difficulty of the application, the originality of the design and the time you're spending on it, including the updates.
2006-09-09 23:39:10 · answer #3 · answered by applejuice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few years ago you could have done ok, but now there is so much software to help anybody make a webpage I would say you would not do well unless you were really good (flash, etc) and worked with a company MAINTAINING their website.
2006-09-09 23:34:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same as with everything else --- it dependson how good you are, or how lucky in getting big clients if you aren't that good
2006-09-09 23:33:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the value differs for each page and also depends on the work .. so you cant say it exactly ...
2006-09-09 23:35:28 · answer #6 · answered by Manis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋