Make Money Web Designing

I have been pondering the internet looking for ways on how to make money and to make a viable business from home and I have found out that the ever increasing internet sites that offer web design are increasing. I do not blame people for getting into this way as for an average of £150 per job can be rather lucrative, and this is just for a basic website that anyone can create. I have started my own business without using any fancy HTML programming language or spending 2-3 years in college learning anything fancy. I am just like you guys and gals, sitting at home pondering and wondering what it would be like, (what if?).

Well I am not going to ask you for any money for this, this is a free to anyone that wants to try it out how to. I do not believe in all these websites that promise to make you millions of pounds, I just make a nice living from doing what I enjoy to do and that is sitting on my computer doing more or less what I usually waist my time doing (fiddling with PC). I still sit on my computer but I create.

I see it as something that you would also do on something like Triond, Create something and get paid for it and its so easy.

So give it a try and see what you think, maybe you too could be making a good living and maybe learn enough to design your own online web design company.

Where to begin

Well as I stated before you do not need to know how to use HTML programming although if you do then it helps. But this is a beginners guide and although there are online sites out there that provide free online website builder wizards, these are pretty useless as they usually have features built in that promote their own business and if you are going to make some money out of this you need to create designs that are uniquely yours. Now this does not mean you have to be superiorly over artistic or creative but to say something is yours is uniqueness.

Now start of getting a WYSIWYG web design program, most have heard of Microsoft Front page or Microsoft Publisher, well these 2 programs can create web pages, even Microsoft office Word has a feature to create what you have typed into a HTML document to be viewed over the internet but to get really good unique stuff you need to get something that is not as basic as Front page and not as slow as Publisher, a program that can design pages like Publisher does but is dedicated to Web design.

My number 1 top choice would be Web Page Maker V2 as this has text boxes that you can drag around the screen and make the layout that you want, you design the page as you would do a Microsoft Publisher document but the coding it changes it into is much quicker than the coding of Publisher and there are allot less bugs when it converts it to HTML. Now this program if searched for in a search engine can be found as a free trial download with many features disabled yet the free version is still superior and will get you your first few jobs that will pay you enough to maybe pay for the full version.

Other programs that can be used are:

• WYSIWYG Web Builder 4.0
• Serif Web Plus 6.0
• Nvu Web Authoring
• Mozilla Composer
• Trellian WebPAGE
• Amaya Web Browsing and Authoring
• Netscape Composer

As you can see there are allot of web authoring software out there that you can get your hands on for absolutely no charge and can start earning money instantly.

Next Step

Now you have your page designing software you need first of all to create your own website to advertise what you can do and your prices. This is your chance to show off you creative talents, by designing your own website you can advertise that this is the quality of your work and that you are as professional as the larger companies.

You can host your website where ever you want. There are a few free websites out there like Yahoo , Geocities , MSN , or even your own internet service provider offers a free web hosting facility as a part of your package with them ... I know mine do and I use it to my full advantage. Also if you don't have a website or do not want to create a website then you can create a blog explaining what you do ect ect, you can do this at places like Blog this site, or goggle blogger. Whichever way you go you will have to get your own clients. I do not promise that I can make you money only you can do that but with perseverance you can accomplish anything.

Now you could do this full time or part time it is totally up to you how you do it, you could just make websites for friends and family or people you know that own a business (which is how I started to be honest), whichever way you want to do it just make it fun and keep it fun, the time you begin to dislike it is the time you shouldn't do it anymore.

All the programs above come with full instructions so I don't really need to put instruction on how to use them here. But my key words in this whole document is summed up in a nutshell.

F U N, F U N, F U N,

If you don't have fun showing you creativity then don't do this.