Amazing but True
I’m sure that we’ll all agree that this is a business … and it’s one that’s highly competitive. In this town it’s very competitive and there are a lot of individuals looking for work as web designers even though they may have very little … if any … experience.
Last week one of those came into our office. It seems that she’s “done a course and got a certificate”, she knows all about “the importance of including javascript in all the websites I design” but she “can’t understand why a design might look great in her wide-screen but looks horrible in an ordinary monitor.”
Now she wants to go into business for herself but she doesn’t know how much she should charge for her work.
She was sure she could complete a website in just one day so she thought Toni might tell her what she should charge.
I guess she picked the right person to ask because I probably would have just burst out laughing. Toni, on the other hand, tried to suggest that Javascript was bad web design and that doing a course and getting a certificate was not enough experience to go into business for herself … but she wouldn’t be told.
Needless to say we did not bother telling her what we charged because the level of service she would offer clients is nothing compared to what we do for our clients and we hate seeing people get ripped off by inexperienced people who simply have no clue.