A New Project…Era?
Since 1998, I’ve been designing websites. Before MySpace, Facebook, or any now popular sites which allow anyone to post yourself online without any technical knowledge, I was sitting behind a computer hacking away at mark-up to create my pages. I was online before being online was popular.Most of my projects were volunteered services. Only once did I get paid for a site I put together. $50 for a five page, MySpace like, site for a high school friend. I don’t think the site was ever actually uploaded, but I did do the design work on it. Beyond that, I designed a multitude of sites, mostly for the religious groups I was involved with. While the thought of designing for additional income has crossed my mind, on more than a few occasions, nothing has ever come of it.
Until now.
Earlier this week, I was approached by a co-worker who’s husband has been tasked with managing a complete overhaul of their church website. A few days later, I met with him, hashed out the scope of the site and my fees, and signed on as their designer. So now, for the first time, I’m going to make some real money for designing a site. I’m really looking forward to progressing with it. I’ve already created a concept sketch, included with this post, and am excited about pulling it all together.
I wouldn’t mind doing more design work in the future. Perhaps this will be the catalyst that will move me to finally start coding web 2.0 type sites and start building the business I’ve been thinking about for quite a while to provide technology solutions for small businesses, including web design.
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