Miscellaneous: thinking about web design as career
started by Mankey on Sep 2, 2004 — RSS Feed
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Hi all!
I'm a c/c++ programmer with 5 years experience working in cubicles for other people. I've been recently laid off, and started a slowly dying real estate business. Actually, it's dying rather quickly. So anyhow... I thought I might get into freelance web programming. I downloaded apache and php and started digging up forums like this, and finding programmer resources. I know I need to get a website of my own. But I have some questions, of course. Does anyone want to share their wisdom?
How viable a career is it (assuming I'm not an idiot)? Where does a fellow advertise himself? What sort of things would you recommend I do or not do? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
thanks!
Mankey
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How viable a career is it (assuming I'm not an idiot)?
It's a perfectly viable career - even for idiots. Whether it is the right one is another matter.
Where does a fellow advertise himself?
In the WPDFD Web Design Directory.
http://www.wpdfd.com/resources/WDDirectory.htm
What sort of things would you recommend I do or not do?
First design a Web site that will impress potential clients of you talents and take it from there. You can do this with samples of your work, gems of philosophy or just sheer trickery.
What not to do, is a site that looks like every other one or trips over itself getting the message across.
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Design your own website. Choose the main keywords based on the service you provide. Target the keywords and make ready the content. once all design part is over and your website is ready start submitting it to the Directories, Articles, Forums, Blogs and Search Engines. This will give you back links and that helps in increase the page rank.
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thanks for nice related post. i think social bookmarking is good technique to increase page rank of website.
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It's very workable as a carreer, I am a intern now at a place now. I Just Started here, but I see it as still a open field to start in.
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Web design is a good career, and once you hit the market, it's quite possible more or same clients will come to you for work. But it actually took me 3 years to master web design and development. But it depends on the person and his pace of work.
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Hi Mankey,
I've found this discussion pretty interesting, so I thought I'd weigh in with my input. Five years ago, I started an online sports uniforms store together with my wife. I had a simlar background to yours, but both of us had to learn a lot (PHP, CSS/XHTML, Photoshop, etc.) to build our website. It was a slow process, but we ultimately made a lot of money from the venture. The advice I have is to be persistent, even when it doesn't seem to be going exactly as you'd hoped.
We recently sold our sporting goods business and started a new business selling website templates. It's taking some time to learn the business, but with persistence it will likely pay off.
I recommend that you learn well the principles of SEO. If you want to sell some of your products or services, I'd recommend using Zen Cart or Magento for your shopping cart.
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web designing industry is in boom as a no of web sites are geting launched every day, every business or every industry is getting on line internet has bring whole world together let it beworking, friendship, business, jobs etc. every where websites are playing its role, so IMO future in web designing in pretty bright
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Interesting Topic to Discuss.. These Post actually helps..Thanx.. Web Design
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Web design is a good career.You should have a business website to start the career professionally.A quality web site, maintaining proper keywords will bring great traffic to your site.You can submit your site to directories, forums, blogs to get back links as well as to increase your site's page rank.just follow these simple steps and think you will get a good result. Best of Luck...
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Not sure if you are wanting to get into graphical design of programing? If you decided to go the graphical design route you would be looking at less money than if you were a programmer. If you want to get started as a graphical designer I would suggest entering some design contests and try to show off your design skills. That way you can drum up business for yourself. Anyway that's what I did and I got some great projects out of it...
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Web designing industry is in boom now a days.It will be a challenging and prosperous career; at first you have to design and host a website; then do some on-page optimization. After that you promote your website through off-page optimization, techniques include article submission, press release submission, blog posts, forum posts,link building etc.But it actually take long time to be a master in web design and development. But it depends on the person and his pace of work.
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