Quote: Gavin @ September 16 2011, 7:17 PM BSThow are you going to charge? paypal?
Shit knows. Probably.
Quote: Leevil @ September 16 2011, 7:18 PM BSTIt's worth a try. Websites are piss cheap to make. Advertising them is a lot harder. How would you go about that?
Just going to try word of mouth and social networkign at first- I'm only really after pocket money for something I enjoy doing. Not looking to turn it into a big earner.
Wouldn't they be single commissions? You'd be able to offer more pay options when dealing with individuals, I think? So whilst you can offer Paypal as an option, it shouldn't be your only one.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 16 2011, 7:24 PM BSTJust going to try word of mouth and social networkign at first- I'm only really after pocket money for something I enjoy doing. Not looking to turn it into a big earner.
I think it's worth a try. You could even use blogger (or whatever) to build a basic site. It has decent gallery options, plus you can link it to many other websites. It's pretty easy to setup as well.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 16 2011, 7:24 PM BSTShit knows. Probably.
Just going to try word of mouth and social networkign at first- I'm only really after pocket money for something I enjoy doing. Not looking to turn it into a big earner.
Nat Wicks!
You can setup a paypal business account and people can pay you online, even without a account. If you want a hand setting something up gimmie a shout I only do e-commerce shit for a living.
I f**king hate Paypal.
My best friend works for paypal, so I think she will be handy to harass with paymenty questions 
It will all be one off original designs, but I'm not looking for big pennies. Unfortunately my 'portfolio' only has comedy related items in so far, so maybe I should do some generic mockups aswell to go in the gallery.
I was thinking just setting up a free moonfruit site and registering a cheap URL to make it look a little better. I'm getting quite handy at making moonfruit look good haha
Gav, any advice you can offer me would be hugely appreciated.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 16 2011, 7:33 PM BSTMy best friend works for paypal, so I think she will be handy to harass with paymenty questions
I was thinking just setting up a free moonfruit site and registering a cheap URL to make it look a little better. I'm getting quite handy at making moonfruit look good haha
Gav, any advice you can offer me would be hugely appreciated.
buy yourself a domain for a couple of quid, free stuff always look shite so if you want space I have shit loads you can use alternatively I use
1and1 and http://www.ynoshosting.com/
You're not going to need a big package, but will prob need php and perl I'd think. Design wise I'd try and make it interesting looking. Lee was kinda right using a CMS is a good idea. Like Wordpress etc you can make intresting sites with it that don't look 'out of the box' Like mine it's heavily modified. Or Open Cart. Which is a Open source shopping system all use SQL, but you can pretty much edit them to do whatever you want.
I've only ever bought one URL and it cost me £5 and I owned it for 2 years. I had 100mb bandwidth a month (if I remember correctly) which was fine, until I posted a video and it sucked it away. To buy bandwidth I bet you'd have to sell one maybe two commissions a month to pay for it. Probably not even that.
Quote: Leevil @ September 16 2011, 7:42 PM BSTI've only ever bought one URL and it cost me £5 and I owned it for 2 years. I had 100mb bandwidth a month (if I remember correctly) which was fine, until I posted a video and it sucked it away. To buy bandwidth I bet you'd have to sell one maybe two commissions a month to pay for it. Probably not even that.
Basic plan
5GB Bandwidth/month
200MB Disk space
Unlimited e-mail accounts
2 MySQL databases
1 FTP account
£1.99 a month/
£20.99 a year
More then enough.
Quote: Leevil @ September 16 2011, 7:18 PM BSTIt's worth a try. Websites are piss cheap to make. Advertising them is a lot harder. How would you go about that?
This.
I've found it quite difficult to make any money but then I've not really consciously chased business too hard. That's the drawback of having a job when doing freelance because it just dilutes the motivation.
You could advertise for free on this site just to get your services 'out there'...
I use them alot for odd jobs.
This site looks promising, although I never got around to using it - http://www.gbbo.co.uk/
I tried to dip my toe into wordpress a while ago, and struggled even to figure out how to install it! I need to make sure I've got a wisiyg platform as I haven't got any web design software ('obtaining' copies of decent ones wasn't doable when I tried).
Here is a moonfruit one I was experimenting with a while back. Cleared all of the template items and built it up with original graphics. Obvious I would build my site to reflect the design aspect for this one, but is this as an example too amateur looking to attract people?
http://natwicks.moonfruit.com/
(Obviously that one's lacking in content, so it looks a bit of a ghost town!)
Quote: Gavin @ September 16 2011, 7:44 PM BSTBasic plan
5GB Bandwidth/month
200MB Disk space
Unlimited e-mail accounts
2 MySQL databases
1 FTP account
£1.99 a month/
£20.99 a yearMore then enough.
Ah, right. I wasn't sure at what level the bandwidth started. But I suppose it can start at any level.
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 16 2011, 7:47 PM BST
Looks pretty good to me, as a basic performer profile. (can I suggest) You, you crazy colourful person, inject more personality into it? It's not really necessary, but seeing as you have the skills creatively, I thought it would be fun. Just a thought. It's very good.
Quote: Gavin @ September 16 2011, 7:46 PM BSThttp://fiverr.com/
I use them alot for odd jobs.
Told yah!
Would agree with Nat about Wordpress. I've found it far harder than people say.
Good idea Nat! Just don't be too cheap.
Quote: bigfella @ September 16 2011, 8:23 PM BSTTold yah!
Would agree with Nat about Wordpress. I've found it far harder than people say.
Maybe for the simple it's difficult. You just need to be a ninja master like me to make it sing like a siren with autotune.