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let's look at the seven bullet points on freelance web design it's a kind of a quick guide how to what you need to do to get your freelance web design career going seven bullet points so let's start with number one you need skills now a freelance web design not talking about web developer or front-end developer developer or necessarily full stack it's more of a small business oriented professional freelance web designer it's a different thing than being a full stack developer working for a large company you need a different set of skills they cross over but a different set of skills so let's talk about the skills a you need your html5 your css3 now when I say you need to know your html5 and css3 that means more than just a code you need to understand the infrastructure around the languages that means you understand server requests response model instance different types of hosting and domain names you understand about basic design characteristics basic layout rules so that layouts look good you need to understand the infrastructure out there that you can have access to in terms of providing your skills for prospective clients some client sites you may need to build from scratch some others might be better if you use a CMS like a WordPress or Joomla or Drupal or maybe either super simple and they just need you to set up their domain names after social presence throw up their site on Wix and manage that for them that happens too it really depends on the particular job at hand but you need to be aware of all these things but the foundation of all this is basic knowledge of you good knowledge rather of html5 css3 a smidgen of JavaScript so that you can do basic things with JavaScript you don't necessarily need to be a JavaScript programmer again this is for web design this is a general-purpose jack-of-all-trades type of service provider for freelancers this is very from a front-end developer who might be using vanilla JavaScript with with maybe react or maybe with view Jas or maybe with angular depending on the type of job or where you work it's a different beast right I don't see many freelancers for small businesses for small business websites necessary jumping into react especially react or angular I do some views are the same and you don't need to be a master JavaScript programmer when you're doing general freelance work in the web space now if you really wanted to supercharge the amount of money you can make be good to learn at least a little bit about server-side full-stack programming again you have to be a super expert but just know your way around what the options are so the top three options in the freelance space in my opinion are PHP number one just because so many businesses use it number two it would be well number two and number three it's it's a close tie it would either be JavaScript with node and some framework for server-side programming or maybe Python Django for freelance development for small businesses you're not gonna be using dotnet you're gonna be using Java not going to be using Perl Java and.net are typically reserved for large organizations out of freelancers technology these technologies I'm not putting them down it's just not good for that space sometimes you need a sports car sometimes you need to pick up truck right that's an overview I'll throw in bootstrap bootstrap is a good framework to know again you don't have to know everything about bootstrap just like you don't have to know everything about html5 and everything about css3 you see a professional knows the key components of the languages or a library and knows what's important and knows how to implement that and you have a good fundamental knowledge of everything that's out there so you bet you can pick and choose what technology is best suited for very for the job at hand that's the main principle so those are the skills with the freelance where does what professional needs to have a sigma 5 CS 3 understand the CMS's doesn't mean B were an expert let them just understand what sure what are the options and when the job comes up learn the WordPress or learn the Drupal you're probably gonna be using WordPress if that comes up a touch of GS and maybe if you want a really super charge how much you're gonna earn learn some server-side programming again not so you're gonna build the next Facebook but you can implement some shopping cards and stuff like that so PHP is might have more choice and then second a third would be no js' JavaScript or Python Django or Python flask depending on their job all right number two once you get your skills are gonna put up a good site to showcase your work my number one tip about putting up a good site make sure it looks good because even if you're selling yourself as a guy stitches everything together it still has to look good because non-programmers your clients have no way of judging how good your skills are except by how nice your site looks so make sure it looks good if you don't have good design skills then use a template there's many out there make some minor modifications your images and stuff like that so it's it's you know so it's your stuff but it's nothing wrong with using front and web design templates it's equivalent to JavaScript programmers using other people's libraries to implement something or a PHP programming using a programmer using PHP libraries to implement something etc so nothing wrong with that in fact using templates in your professional workflow is for small business development is par for the course in fact you should in most cases because design from scratch very expensive I know we're redoing the studio web for branding and a new studio web for store and we're designing from scratch but that's because that's what we that's what we do right and it's a very involved project and a budget just for the design it would be way beyond what most businesses would spend small businesses on their site anyhow next step three now that you get your site up you get the skills you want to reach out to local this could be friends families whatever you want to just get some practice jobs small jobs don't want to do two months jobs with last month's but small jobs and the reason you want to do this is a to gain reputation and B to to learn to work with other people learn to work with other people that's very important so yeah you want to get a couple of jobs under your belt probably gonna be free if you're lucky you might get jobs where you get paid like a substandard rate again it's considered a stash as part of the learning process one thing I want to point out going forward is that reputations huge reputation is huge don't discount that the two most valuable assets you have going forward in life these days in my opinion not house it is not stocks its reputation and your skill sets reputation your skill sets so you want to cultivate your reputation the first way you cultivate your reputation is getting a website that looks good the next step is to develop relationships with local businesses if possible if you can't do local businesses the next step and before is to try online markets like up work if you don't want these are there's several out there there's up work I don't know Fiverr or something find this one that's suitable for you and you again do some free work again to develop reputation there make sure you deliver on time you have good communications they like you to give you five stars again that's gonna help just like an Amazon review of your book like I have a book on Amazon has five star reviews it helps people look at these things right part of reputation next step you do want to get once some sort of social presence again create a digital trail of who you are so you might post up in for me don't don't post up embarrassing things but post things like that relate to what you're trying to sell and turn your freelance skills talk about some new libraries you're exploring or some recent job you've done or some you know your exploration to WordPress whatever you want to have a paper traditional trail rather of what it is you do so people can see this they can see that you're actively your mind is in that space your professional your professional web designer web professional number six well before I go on in terms of developing your reputation there's social your website another thing that might help out well how it will help out initially anyway to kickstart your career a couple certifications here in there doesn't hurt just to show that you've actually you know you've done the work it's not you know it's not as important as having a website and having some reputation and working with people but it it could help okay number six you want to this is more of a suggestion you could specialize in a business sector so for instance maybe you'll find yourself you're the go-to person who builds websites for coffee shops or you build websites for restaurants or maybe you build websites for electricians and plumbers or maybe for real estate agents you see that a lot so why would you want to do this a you're building reputation within that community and B there's gonna be a consistency in all the real real estate sites so be a consistency in all the coffee shop sites this consistency will allow you to put out optimized sites in a much quicker manner and a much more professional manner and this brings me to my final point this will allow you to develop workflows to reduce time and increase your money and productivity so that is the key my friends that is the key you want to over time refine your skills refine your reputation and refine your workflows so that you can maximize your profitability so in my own experience as a freelancer I went from earning X to 5x over a few years period just because I took the steps to improve all these things but I just talked about alright I hope that helps I'm off to the gym very important that you make working out and training as important as any other aspect of your day without a healthy body you cannot have a healthy mind so workout on a regular basis don't kill yourself working out minor working out you know just break a sweat this heavy things that will make you feel much better and your cognitive capabilities will increase accordingly as well so that's it I'm off to the gym I suggest you do a little training if you don't have a gym do if you pushups in the house maybe if you can do some handstands jog and play skip some rope you don't need to train hard even 20 minutes a day is pretty good not great it's pretty good if you have 30 minutes every day or 30 minutes every other day that'd be great if you really out of shape start slow train twice a week train twice a week drink water reduce your diet which you take in if you're overweight by 10% and you'll be in a much better position in 30 days just 30 days you're gonna feel much better you're gonna think much better you're gonna be able to code better trust me it pays off in a big way all right that's it