I've been looking into becoming a web designer, I like the whole process of making sites and what not. I was wondering if anyone knows how much a web designer gets paid for making a site, and for maintaining it. Thanks
depend on how good you are, if you can make a really good design you can get $500 or more, if you can code it, it can run too the $1000, but its a long way too get there ^^
No , please don't give advice when you don't know what you are talking about. If you are a free lance web designer, and can code big projects, like my father's friend, you can get around -5000$+ per website. Web designing is a big business. Sometimes the web designs that sell for that much wouldn't even sell for 50$ on the forums. It's all about what the client wants and meeting his needs. However, if you are part of a company, your share will probably will be much less.
My friend makes $15 an hour for maintaining a server for a website. He gets paid to go to high school to maintain their website (So basically an extra $300 to show up) and on top of that he gets random jobs from freelancing adding up to $1k per job. So in total he makes about 40k a year. This is no /joke either. [EDIT] He codes PHP, HTML(rarely... it sucks lol), CSS, MySQL, AJAX (little bit), JavaScript, tiny amount of C++. Oh and hes 16. :lol:
One tip. Don't design for people on the Internet. If you meet with them in real life, they are more generous with payments and will trust you. Yeah, you can design for freelance forums, but there are so many designers and one is bound to be better then you. Keep your designs simple - something that looks noobish in the "internet world" can look great to clients. You also need to meet with them, and maintain the site and add things to it. Trust me, you'll make a lot more designing for REAL companies, not e-companies. What I did to start of is to go around to local companies and ask them if they wanted an easier to edit website, or just a website for their company which they did not have. Now, I'm stacked with requests. I've designed websites for over 12 medical and/or sports medicine companies in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, not to mention local companies and smaller companies. Just know your stuff and make sure you are good at designing, and your skill will spread by world of mouth very quickly. Hope this helps.
Im currently in a web design class (physically in it right now too hahaha). You can make anywhere from 0-5,000 dollars on a website freelancing. It all depends on how good you are and how complex the website is..... lets say your making a website for personal portfolio...maybe you can get 1,000 max depending on the circumstances... but if you are making a website for a bank...then its very complicated as you need a secure login, many pages, etc.,etc. those can go up really high. but until you get to where you can do that, goes long ways....unless your this 16yr old making 40k a year GIMME SOME! and enroll into a web design class at a college nearby...any really even if your already know some..it will give you a lot of job opportunities and will get you 'known'
Its not really about the money. /the way you are putting it is, you want to be in a business field with high pay rates, although you may hate your career. Pick something you truely like to do, not just something because thats where the money is at. Trust me no matter how much money you make its not worth it with a ----ty job/career.
this all talking about how much you can earn depends on wich project and who is your boss. and at which company you are. if you are in a relative small company you will afort what ravr says. if you get into bigger companies prizes will get bigger. I have seen those prizes too. and imo it kinda an easy / good way to earn money. [edit] except for the coding
