Good web design is NOT cheap. It’s more than slapping graphics with codes and calling it a web site. Web design is about providing a solution. Such creative problem-solving service mixed with technical know-how deserves a respectable pay.
A web designer’s role is ever evolving. Simply doing the technical work isn’t going to be enough. What separates a good designer and an excellent designer? I’ll spare you with the professionalism and love for the craft talk. That’s a given. I feel, increasingly, that a web designer’s role is offering the clients a solution. This is more than creating a web site from a technical perspective. Marketing, SEO, branding, social networking are the aspects we should offer to clients pro-actively. I’ll be Harlan Ellison-like here: It’s about the money. It’s about being paid. If you don’t care about how little you get paid, then switch careers and make web sites for your friends on the side as a hobby.
