Slicing and Dicing

Broadie

Broadie

Broadie

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Hi all,
I'll keep this very brief, but I was having a natter with a couple of friends the other day who told me that Photoshop slicing and coding to HTML and CSS is a skill very much in demand these days and can earn you a reasonable amount on an ad hoc basis (without too much of a time commitment... very important)

I'm looking to do this to part-help the finances during the next year (about to start yr2 of web design degree) and was wondering whether any web devs/designers here in OcLand ever out-source for this kind of work, and whether you use agencies/online resources for these kind of jobs.

I have done a few so far on personal/private projects and have a reasonable knowledge of xhtml and css with a minor amount of javascript (we are moving onto the latter, Ajax, PHP, SQL in greater detail this next year).

The prospect of paid commercial work is challenging because of the need to maintain a professional standard, but a necessary one to keep the skills sharpened.

Would love to hear any opinions/thoughts/insider knowledge from you guys....many thanks in advance :)
 
My company sometimes outsources build of XHTML/CSS templates for websites if everyone is snowed under. IIRC the last one was done by an Indian company and cost us about $25, and all the templates came back validating to XHTML Transitional.

If you're going to be doing more involved development then it may be worthwhile, but if you're just going to be slicing and dicing, I wouldn't bother.
 
Spunkey said:
My company sometimes outsources build of XHTML/CSS templates for websites if everyone is snowed under. IIRC the last one was done by an Indian company and cost us about $25, and all the templates came back validating to XHTML Transitional.
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At that price, why wouldn't you outsource all of them? There is no way I would accept $25 for 3-8 hours of work.
 
I did this after finishing uni for 6 months, it's good experience and money if you advertise properly or setup an online company/website.

It helped get me the job where I currently am so I can't recommend it enough personally :)
 
It can go for pretty cheap tbh, heard of people outsourcing to russia too. But if you find a niche then you can make good money. Good thing is also to get a bit of wordpress experience as many ask for wordpress themes also.
 
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