How many freelance web designers do we have here?

[sciencetoy]

I've done a little freelance web design, but I make a lot more doing freelance web copywriting. There are a lot of really great designers out there who work for really cheap.

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: LakAttack
I also have a full-time job and try to do some freelance web design on the side. I haven't done a ton of work, but I'm just getting to the point that I've done enough on my own to have pretty decent portfolio with only work I've done outside of the full-time job, so I'll be launching a new site pretty soon. I have a question for the other freelancers who post in this thread though - when you do a site, do you charge by the hour, or decide on a flat price for a site? I've been charging by the hour and estimating hours up front, but I don't think that is the way to go. . .

I used to charge per project fee but now I strictly work by the hour. I found that when you charge per project, the client tends to abuse that and always wants inumerable revisions, additions, etc. Now, working by the hour, I don't care what they want to do because the more they want, the more I get paid.

 

[dquan97]

Nice site, RH71!

I have 3 clients that I designed and maintaining websites...they're paying me enough so my dathorn account is free.

 

[Jugernot]

I used to be... but I got a real job.

Started hand writing html in 1994, started my own web design company in 1997-1999. Was hired as a web developer for a web technology based company in 2001, it went out of business in late 2002. Haven't done any web work since...

 

[Encryptic]

I'm not a freelancer, but about 25% of my job is doing web design for my company, along with another guy. The other 75% is tech support (mostly through email, thankfully). It pays the bills at least....

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: dquan97

I have 3 clients that I designed and maintaining websites...they're paying me enough so my dathorn account is free.

That's what most AT'ers who have dathorn accounts do

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