A question to professionals.

[Cias]

Hello,

I am interested in learning professional webdesign - but I do not have the knowledge yet.

Programs that I own:
Adobe Photoshop CS2
Adobe Illustrator CS2
Macromedia Flash 8
Macromedia Fireworks 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8
Macromedia Contribute 3
Macromedia Coldfusion 7
Autodesk 3ds Max 9
The questions:

* What kind of coding and designing skills are required to earn $200-300+ per client in general?
* What coding language do you recommend to learn? Will be learning one.
* Do I need any additional program to be a professional webdeveloper/designer?
* Are all of these programs useful for webdeveloping/designing?
* ASP.NET vs. PHP?
* How much can you make a month as a professional freelance designer? * How many clients do you usually have?
* Is it worth the effort to learn this and earn money this way

I am looking forward to recieve answers from professional webdevelopers/designers. Concrete answers are heartly welcome, and appriciated.

 

[MK3Design]

* html,php,photoshop
* html
* no
* Some of them, Photoshop, flash, maybe dreamweaver
* php
* Money can be endless (max I was making at once was like $2300/week though). You needto build a solid portfolio and you will have pm after pm, email after email in people interested in working with you.
* yes, but it took me a very long time to get this far..

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[Cias]

* html,php,photoshop
* html
* no
* Some of them, Photoshop, flash, maybe dreamweaver
* php
* Money can be endless (max I was making at once was like $2300/week though). You needto build a solid portfolio and you will have pm after pm, email after email in people interested in working with you.
* yes, but it took me a very long time to get this far..

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How long time to be specific? If you already master photoshop.

 

[Dan]

You should plan on getting good at designing period before planning on making as much money as professional designers. It seems like you are just starting and have goals, but it looks like you have a LONG LONG way to go before you will reach them. You need to build up an extensive portfolio before people will hire you for the kind of money you want.

 

[LeetPCUser]

I have learned hand coding starting with Dreamweaver and now make around $500-$1200 a client not including the design. I outsource the design to my designer. They make roughly $200 a 2 page design plus favicon. I would recommend visiting w3c schools and learning hand coding. If that is over your head start with books or Dreamweaver.