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Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
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Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
acutally he can ask me--remember, I am the best.
Well, you sound very motivated but I have a question for you, where does this motivation come from, why web design? why not selling pets? I need to understand what you have in mind...
Web Design is very lucrative business if you do it right and do it local but first you need credibility. Do you have previous experience in Web De...?-
Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
i'm thinking of purchasing the dreamweaver ??? any alternative recommendations?-
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Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
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You might become overwhelmed with dreamweaver if you have no relevant HTML/CSS experience.
An easier to use interface for the "begginer" is Microsoft Expression Web.
Microsoft Expression Web is used for the designer of a website, where as Microsoft Visual Studio is used for the devloper of a website(programmer).
Dreamweaver offers the ability to both design and program at a higher efficiency but will become overwhelming to someone that has never tried web design.
Oh and by the way, in response to the other comment, he is the best, I agree, and I am a close second or even last place, I am not sure as of yet.
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Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
Well, I have two friends one who provides accounting and tax services for small clients and one who provides network services. Of these clients, only about 3 or 4 have a web presence. In addition, I have been prospecting with small businesses I frequent and very few have web services. Given the prices quoted for web design, web hosting etc. there seems to be a niche that I feel I can take advantage of.-
Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
what is preventing you from achieving your goals??? sounds like you are...just do it! -
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you indicated that you have friends who do not have a presence on the web...you then indicated that you wish to take advantage of this situation...may I add that if you are to succeed in helping them get a presence on the web you should do it not to take advantage of them but to truly help them increase their business. how do you propose to do this? or else why bother-
Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I meant to say that my friends clients do not have a web presence and since this is a captive client base, I can take advantage of this situation to provide them a service that will help them generate business and generate some ongoing revenue for me. -
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Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
Sorry, I forgot to answer your question. I do not have experience in web design. I would like to learn.
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The knowledge you need to be a decent sales person withing web development really depends on who you will be dealing with and their market.
If you are dealing with a small business then you need no knowledge then to understand and be able to read into a business owners needs and concerns, as well as you should have a plan of attack that mimicks the web design company you are working for.
If you are dealing with larger businesses you will be more then likely working directly with the IT department, and they will have vast knowledge, and will consider the company you work for as being incompetent if you cannot explain the difference between technical specs like .php and html.
It really depends on the company you plan on working for and who their market is.
As a rule of thumb, before you start "knocking at doors" to find a web design sales job, you had best get a could understanding of the acronyms of all the technologies assoicated with web development, web design, and the standards and protocols that drive today's internet. The best sales persons in the IT industry have an educational background in IT and/or computer science, but have found the ability to excel in sales.-
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Finally, a good sales person can sale a bikini to an eskimo during a winter blizzard, so it really boils down to your approach.(or lack their of).-
Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
So the original question should be restated as 'does anybody have a program to teach the non-techie about web concepts and a supporting infrastructure to handle business steered their way or is it better to learn web concepts and design and start a business from scratch?-
Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
This is a good question, and really a local SCORE or US Small Business Administration advisor could answer this better then I.
The greatest thing about there advice is it is "FREE".
This website loves free!
Mike(inTech "Special")
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Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
Hello, I just signed up a moment ago (via my BoA account sidebar) and saw this thread.
I would have to disagree with the poster above. If you're serious about a career in designing and developing interfaces for the web (and other associated platforms), taking up Microsoft Expression Web 2 or Dreamweaver is highly counter-productive. These are tools not used by any high-end professionals in the field.
It's true, you can set yourself up with a little business of doing Mom & Pop pet store sites with these tools, but chances are the Mom or the Pop's son could just as easily use the same programs and produce the same results. In my opinion, that's not an environment conducive to becoming a player in the market. In order to innovate in this field, you have to actually learn and understand the technology.
Being an expert in HTML, XHTML, XML and CSS is a piece in the puzzle, of course (which, by the way, the tools above will not grant you). However, the real promise comes when you have a serious understanding of the way we develop new web technologies -- that comes from a slow evolution of a solid base knowledge like core HTML and it's standard principles.
My suggestion would be to start by learning the very basics of building semantically-correct HTML 4.01 documents. Don't worry about how things look. Worry about how your content is prioritized at the code level, how data is organized by your syntax (e.g. your headers, your lists, etc.) -- "This is a list, it should be coded as a list." These are the fundamentals of web design and development. From there, you can begin seasoning this content by adding stylesheets, etc.
Best,
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Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
Travis, you're making entirely too much sense.
To the original poster- dig up a copy of Microsoft Frontpage and have at it; you can thank me later.-
Re: Help!!! How do I go about making money from Web Design
I would have to agree that Microsoft Frontpage is a great solution, but I am not sure it works best with the changes in web technologies.
What kind of support does Front Page offer for Cascading Style Sheets and XHTML?
Any current JavaScript support?
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Travis -
You bring up an extremely valid point.
This is that you should have a great understanding of web technologies, protocols and standards.
If you do not mind me asking, how should one implement this understanding once they have a decent grasp?
Any suggestions for software to implement this?
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You state that you could start implementing CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) after you have this grasp.
Are we talking about CSS with static websites or are you referencing both static and dynamic.
How do you feel about Open Source development solutions?
Any preferences or recommendations?
I have heard it said(it worked for me as well), that it is a could to use a notepad to test your understanding of HTML, CSS, and other relevant technologies.
Would you agree?
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