Designing of your freelance site...

[flashwiz]

One of the most important parts of your advertising arsenal is your own website!!

Your website is the place where you display your skill set and products to potential clients and customers. Our product at the end of the day is design and interactive media, and its important that potential customers can view a wide range of your projects. Often we as designers post only what we feel is our best work on our sites. Whilst this is a good idea in general, i have also learned that it is better to have a wide range of styles and types of projects online. Even if some of the work is not what you consider to be your best!

For instance i have work in my showroom from when i helped TheAA design and build their Car Portal in 2002. The design itself looks old and outdated, but the brand name recognition as helped so much to build my credibility with new clients.

As designers we are often very critical about our own work, yet i have been pleasantly suprised by how much a new client for example likes a past project of mine that i myself consider old and inferior to my more recent work.

When you design your freelance site you need to think about the target audience. We all have our own styles and you therefore need to decide if you want to work for any or all of the following: B2B, B2C, non-profit and small shops. Try to learn about what your target audience looks for when they select a freelance designer such as yourself and give them what they want.

Give them a reason why they should use you and not look elsewhere.

[web classics]

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[flashwiz]

Not quite sure what your meaning by your reply.... i dont need any services, so seems strange to offer your url....

SCAM possibly?

[Toon]

Spam Monkey, he's been warned.

[sazzelli]

yeah but what do you do if U dont have time to make your own site,
and when you do make your own site you cant get it how u want it,.

and then you try to get someone to do it for you but they have no idea -
even tho you have sent them design ideas and template , they still dont co - oporate...
.>!!!!

sorry im just having a bugger of a time sorting my site out..!
ive had to revert to IWEB because
my dreamweaver has ran out of its 30 day trial ! lol
Does anyone have any tips for me ! lol

[sazzelli]

this is my unfinished site, its gonna be on sazzelli.co.uk


and theres nothing in the design section yet so dont get excitied.

http://web.mac.com/sazzelli/iWeb/saz...RO%20page.html

please visit it and tell me how crazy i am.

[sazzelli]

if u wana cheer me up u can tell me im good at photography if u like :)

[flashwiz]

If your going to do design and graphic work for other people, espescially web design then you have to without doubt make time to do your own site yourself. Its impossible to sell website design if you cant actually make your own.

Just use Notepad.... the sooner you learn to hand code the better.... :-)

[sazzelli]

yeah people keep telling me that,

but dont i need to buy a book!!!

i know i seriously need to sit down and learn full html>>lord help me !

but im not sellin website design as yet, maybe in years,
its more illustration work, graphics and photography and graffiti is what i concentrate on,
so still i need to hav a site to exhibhit my work... waaaaa :(

[Toon]

I'd drop the splash page it doesn't nothing. ps. UR good at photography!!