Hello!

 

I say 'budding' because I really am new to all of this.

 

I'm Sebastian. I live and work in York, in a Learning & Development team. I'm really passionate about design and so have just become a subscriber to the Adobe Creative Cloud! Started to teach myself how to use the programmes and already got a good grasp of Adobe InDesign. Now I am trying my hand at Adobe Muse! I' sure to seasoned web designers, knowing how to write code would be preferable but I have to start somewhere. Muse looks surprisingly easy to use!

 

I've been having a play around with designing some web pages and hope to put some on this site and get some feedback, over the next couple of months. I've just bought myself an iMac so I am all set up to try and make a thing of this.

 

Ideally, I'd like to be able to make some money by creating clean and beautiful websites for small businesses. It would be great to try and make back the cost of my Adobe subscription, as a minimum! I already work from home and would love to keep doing this in years to come.

 

I would appreciate any help you guys can give me in regards to feedback on my creations and also some tips on getting set up as a web designer. Muse would definitely be my tool of choice for the next year but would then be looking at Dreamweaver, as it comes with the subscription.

 

I have no idea at the moment what I could charge for a simple website (let's say 5-9 pages with things like an about section, services, contact etc; a site a small independent coffee shop might want). Any ideas?

 

Any other tips would be great also. I intend on doing a number of free sites, so I can build up my own portfolio and of course, create my own site.

 

Anyway that's enough for now. Thanks everyone

 

Sebastian Hope

Hi Sebastian, welcome to the forum

Hope you enjoy it here

 

Sure you can keep working from home, many freelance web designers work from home, me included.

I would advise against Adobe Muse (as you have probably been advised already) and would say it's best to start learning HTML and CSS to start with, if you want to become a professional. But I am sure you will come to that conclusion yourself later on

As for the pricing, I would say when you have a few sites in your portfolio, calculate your hourly price (based on what yearly income you need) and price every project based on that.

 

Any questions, please ask, everyone here will be happy to answer.

Looking forward to seeing some of your creations

Good luck.

Hello and welcome!