Web Designing is changing at a rapid pace, once we used photoshop and frontpage, now we have a list of other things that command attention. The option is to specialize. You need to constantly evolve yourself, and not limit your expertise to just one field. Although it may seem scary, but specializing is not an option for web designers. For the majority of web designers they need to be generalists, i.e. they need to expand their horizon into more diverse areas. According to me, there are 5 skills that are important to succeed in this business. Moreover, a web design company is always looking for a person who is good at Marketing- Increasing web design company and web designers are noticing that their marketing strategy is not limited to building website. You need a hub of broader strategy. Clients need to understand how their website fits into present world and does it fits into online marketing strategy or not.
you are write web designing is only a first step for starting anything their lot to explore. Thanks for nice post.
So what are the 5 skills and how do they differ for the self employed designer to the employed designer who is handed a brief by the sales guy.
Signature link spam. The same drivel is on several other forums (I searched a few sentences from the post). A big fail for them as on this, and some other forums, they don't have signature link ability yet.