I am a recent university graudate in Multimedia Technology. For the past 6 months I have been doing work experience. I have built a website for a company, and done work experience in a web design company where I built a website for a client. My experiecne in web design include phtoshop, dreamweaver, xhtml, css, javascript, php & mysql (building a cms/forms/logins) and using joomla.
I am interested in becoming a freelance web designer but need some advice on it all. If anyone could help it would be much appreciated.
With my skills would it be a good idea to do freelance? Should I do more work experience? Is freelance web designing better than working in a company, what are the pros and cons? How much should I charge, should I charge less because I am a new web designer? Where could I find clients (I have looked on sites like reed.co.uk and freelancers.net)? What sort of resources will I need (I have my own pc with the required software)? Would I need to use contracts? Would I need to set this up as a business (I already have an online portfolio) or could it be like temp jobs? How would I be taxed?
