Upsetting phone call

[minestrone]

Is he actually any good? Seriously.

I used to work for a design company and you could hire designers for buttons. There are bazillions of people who know dreamweaver and who would pass themselves off as designers.

We set the bar at only hiring people who actually had a degree in design and the difference between them and your average web designer is night and day. Even then we were paying 10 quid per hour for Glasgow School of Art graduates. It's a joke but that is the way it is.

[realityhack]

There are bazillions of people who know dreamweaver and who would pass themselves off as designers.

Tell me about it. Sorting the wheat from the chaff in that market is a nightmare. Everyone's a 'designer'. About 1% of them know their arse from their elbow.

[suityou01]

Is he actually any good? Seriously.

I used to work for a design company and you could hire designers for buttons. There are bazillions of people who know dreamweaver and who would pass themselves off as designers.

We set the bar at only hiring people who actually had a degree in design and the difference between them and your average web designer is night and day. Even then we were paying 10 quid per hour for Glasgow School of Art graduates. It's a joke but that is the way it is.

He has a relevant degree and has done some high profile gigs with high street names. He is very good, yes.

[suityou01]

I assume your friend has registered on Home - iT4Communities ?

I need someone to do my Website for me. The package I have doesn't, from what I can see, have a DB backend. Need to improve it badly.

He has done a lot of websites for charity. It gives you something to do, but they rarely lead to any paid work.

[minestrone]

Tell me about it. Sorting the wheat from the chaff in that market is a nightmare. Everyone's a 'designer'. About 1% of them know their arse from their elbow.

It's amazing how piss poor most are at SEO as well, I looked at a company site the other day who advertised SEO services but had all their link in javascript dropdowns.

If you can get your site onto google's front page for "website design <your location>" you are going to get a lot of work. 95% of them have not worked that out yet which is shocking.

[suityou01]

It's amazing how piss poor most are at SEO as well, I looked at a company site the other day who advertised SEO services but had all their link in javascript dropdowns.

If you can get your site onto google's front page for "website design <your location>" you are going to get a lot of timewasters. 95% of them have not worked that out yet which is shocking.

[realityhack]

Perhaps, but a friend of mine's in the top 5 for web design london - and he has more work than he can handle.

[lilelvis2000]

When I go onto Gumtree I see plenty of work for web designers and programmers. Anyone with Joomla, php, CSS knowledge and skills and experience should be able to find work these days. Companies around here are desperate to learn about SEO, landing pages, etc..

I have often thought about moving into that area because there is just soo much work these days. And its incredibly technical. I sometimes flip through these web design mags and my head starts spinning at the mention of jQuery!

It really seems like your friend is not marketing himself right. Networking is key.

[Jog On]

Is he on Elance and Rentacoder?

I second all the points about SEO and web marketing. It's a definite edge to have

Maybe he could learn and hone some marketing/SEO skills by taking up affiliate marketing.

[minestrone]

Has he got an online portfolio?