@Dave you are very much right. :) I have one question.. what if a person like me, who is more of a developer than a designer, is just starting out and needs to redesign his site. Then how should he go about it? I tried to make designs learning from many tutorials but still no originality left that way :P Some light on this would really help me out..

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Profit Disappointment

The first few paying clients you have are very unlikely to make you any sort of huge profit, as a new inexperienced designer you aint going to be able to charge top wack for the work that you do. As a new inexperienced designer your design and delivery times will be a lot longer than that of an experienced designer. There is also possibility s that you will promise clients to include certain “extra” features that you haven’t got a clue about, which is all well and good as you’d probably research and learn how to implement them as you go along. This can be time consuming and slow you down dramatically, the time spent learning how to implement “extra” features should not be time for which the client will or should pay you for.

I know it seems hypercritical, and let the flaming commence, but it made me annoyed to the point where I couldn’t even concentrate on the article.