I'm a graphic designer with a 4 year degree in my field. I remember when I went to school, web design was not a real big but it was getting more popular. This was between 2001 to 2005. More and more print work is going to the way self and websites was becoming the big thing. Now most of my work is web and very little print is being done. I'm luck enough to work for a company that I can do both but I need to know Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, html5, css and javascript. Wordpress is becoming my new tool to know. But with all that said, low end to almost free design are popping up everywhere. Mostly from GoDaddy, 1&1 and all the other template free services, just have to pay the monthly fee to use them. It's a real good thing for small businesses to get their business out for a real cheap price. The downside is for designer. Most small business don't want to pay a premium for a good design but instead get a really cheap looking site and branding and just let their product shine by itself. Most studies show that a good branding of a product or services goes farther then a low end design. Just have to pay upfront for it.
Most of the time, I don't take jobs just because the work I put in is not what I'm going to get when it comes to paid. I have to make a living to is downgrade my work or services. Had someone that wanted me to do their website. Ask for $400 for a custom design website in WordPress. I pretty much told them no and they told me that they can get their friend's kid to do it for really cheap. Told them that you're not paying me just for a website but instead you're paying me to brand your business to the world. You can get a general looking template that can do everything that you want but it will not stand out at one bit.
Compare to most cheap services and designer that want to make a few bucks on the side. A good theme, color theory, marketing and branding you get out of me not a finally product that most services you get out of the world.
Inclosed, high end design will not go completely when we have Coke, Pepsi, Ford and an multi billion dollar companies that can drop 100 of thousands of dollars for a marketing campaign but those go to the high end design firms that we are seeing less now of days.
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I'm a graphic designer with a 4 year degree in my field. I remember when I went to school, web design was not a real big but it was getting more popular. This was between 2001 to 2005. More and more print work is going to the way self and websites was becoming the big thing. Now most of my work is web and very little print is being done. I'm luck enough to work for a company that I can do both but I need to know Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, html5, css and javascript. Wordpress is becoming my new tool to know. But with all that said, low end to almost free design are popping up everywhere. Mostly from GoDaddy, 1&1 and all the other template free services, just have to pay the monthly fee to use them. It's a real good thing for small businesses to get their business out for a real cheap price. The downside is for designer. Most small business don't want to pay a premium for a good design but instead get a really cheap looking site and branding and just let their product shine by itself. Most studies show that a good branding of a product or services goes farther then a low end design. Just have to pay upfront for it.
Most of the time, I don't take jobs just because the work I put in is not what I'm going to get when it comes to paid. I have to make a living to is downgrade my work or services. Had someone that wanted me to do their website. Ask for $400 for a custom design website in WordPress. I pretty much told them no and they told me that they can get their friend's kid to do it for really cheap. Told them that you're not paying me just for a website but instead you're paying me to brand your business to the world. You can get a general looking template that can do everything that you want but it will not stand out at one bit.
Compare to most cheap services and designer that want to make a few bucks on the side. A good theme, color theory, marketing and branding you get out of me not a finally product that most services you get out of the world.
Inclosed, high end design will not go completely when we have Coke, Pepsi, Ford and an multi billion dollar companies that can drop 100 of thousands of dollars for a marketing campaign but those go to the high end design firms that we are seeing less now of days.
What are you're thoughts on this?
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