What are the important things required to be a good Web designer?

Question

to be a professional web-designer what are the things we require that can help us in creating our own business.

Answer 1

Assuming you are already a talented web site designer and understand all the ins and outs of creating professional web sites, I've found the following to be the biggest selling point for my new clients:

All of my web sites are backed by a solid company which provides my clients with unlimited ongoing technical support.

If they can't get a hold of me for any reason, help is available online or on the telephone. It only costs me $35 per month to provide this support to ALL my clients and comes in super handy.

Another feature that has been a huge selling point is that the sites I create can be easily modified, edited and updated by my clients as easily as making a change to a Word document. They don't have to have special skills, special software, or any kind of technical knowledge. Once I deliver the site to them, they can simply log-in to their site and make revisions whenever needed.

This has been huge, because my clients all had to pay hourly for simple changes before, and now they can easily do them for free without messing up their web site.

I've found that beyond good design, being able to provide the type of support and features found only at large web design companies has been the deciding factor in getting and keeping good clients.

I also offer my clients:

Free custom site demo's so they can see what I can build for them and see how easy it will be for them to manage their sites without my help.

My clients also get built-in searchable databases, catalog/shopping cart features they can implement at any time, site submission tools to easily submit their sites to search engines, etc.

So, my advice, is to design your business to provide your clients with everything they would get from a big web design company, but because they're getting it from you, they'll save time and money.

Answer 2

The first rule for a "successful" web designer is to determine the market audient of your client's website. Ask the client, a very simple question: Who's your Net audience? Are they "dial-up" or "DSL" subscribers? Once you determine the audience, then recommend the design authoring tool. For example, for "dial-up" subscribers, stick with HTML-based website. For "DSL" subscribers, go with Flash. Again, DO NOT recommend an authoring tool which fails to meet the client's audience because should the client later find out that you took the initiative [on your own choice] and created a complete Flash website [without his permission]; you may be in store for possible legal action against your choice of authoring tool.

The second rule for "successful" is to make sure that you have a clause in your web designer agreement which holds you harmless for any "merchantability" or "marketability" issues surrounding any of your website creations. Thus, no matter what happens down the road and the clients claims that he was sold an "unmarketable" or "undiscoverable" website [say, on major search engines]; you have a written disclaimer from the client that you are merely a "graphic web designer," not providing "any" SEO services; and you are held harmless from any suit for damages, directly or indirectly.

Good luck!

Answer 3

- learn fast and love to learn new things
- listen to people, and learn to ask relevant questions
- have a passion for it, not motivated by success or money
- practice, practice, practice
- test, test, test
- pay attention to the details, even if you think people won't notice them
- don't give up ever, there are always resources and you will figure it out soon enough
- it's not a sport or a competition, there are always people who know more than you and are better than you, no matter what you do. Study what they do, don't be jealous.

Answer 4

Stick-to-it-ive-ness... the determination to learn the basics then keep learning and learning about, the basics, while dipping in to the intermediate, then keep learning and learning more about the basics and the itermediate while dipping in to the advanced, and all the while, keeping awarer and awarer of the webmaster resources available for advice worldwide...

Answer 5

look in the want adds for companies hiring web developers and see what they are looking for. You could also contact a local school that gives degrees in website dev and see what classes they offer.