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Interesting approach, I must say this has made me consider learning some web design. I always thought the high-end money was in web apps.
So it's through web design that you're selling value (convincing them you'll increase their sales, leads, conversion, etc).
In my case, I only know web development at the moment, so it's pretty tricky to sell value in the same way you are. My job is to only build the design I'm given, not create the design myself. Do you have any advice on how I can create value for them (increase sales, leads, etc) through purely web development? Or is learning some web design the only way?
My HTML/CSS/JS is pretty proficient, I can create any design that I'm given, it just takes me some time as I haven't had tons of practice.
The fact is that clients really don't give a d**** about how you do you job. Especially in coding which is commonly seen as a massive, boring headhache. Only results matters.
When you go to your car mechanic, he's ordering the pieces, not manufacturing it himself. Does that matter to you ? Nope, you just want your car to run.
I respect epicness above everything, but epicness is not rentability. Sure you could developp awesome web app that bring great results, but is that the more optimized way ? A bricklayer company has absolutely no ideas of the difference between a perfectly developped react.js app and a imported wordpress template, and they don't wanna know. Darn even the word "webmaster" is irritating for them.
But you can exploit that, you can actually sell geek work by not seeming a geek, wich is where you can unlock market parts.
If you consider all the factors, time, energy, skills and results, chances of success... Then it is way more profitable to develop showcase, static websites, for boring services companies like accountant or construction. So yes, pure "design" is more profitable in first time. And if you can develop true webapp, using templates for design will be easy for you.
Personally, I want to create selling designs that bring results to secure myself and then only switch to true web dev, because yes, web app can bring you massive money, but it is also more risky.
One of the things I learned on this forum is that beginning simply is always a good idea
Yes using templates is not the "real deal", but we're not programmers, we're business men.
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