Don't order layout in the West? Or am I dumb and can't find it?

Question

Freelance

Actually, I monitor oDesk and elance, I see that only a few psd-to-html layout projects are published there per day. Whereas on the same decaying fl.ru every day there are a lot of projects for layout designers.
Maybe I just don't understand how to search? (I never liked Western interfaces)
On Odessa, for example, I look at such filters - joxi.ru/nAyX4XaFwgod2Z and the cat wept for projects there, half of them are from Indians. And often there are not projects, but nonsense like "I have a blog on WordPress, I want to change the color of the buttons." Or vice versa - "I want a cool site. Make me a site."
I have a lot of experience in layout, I seem to know English quite well, I want to work more in the front-end, I really like js as a language. But the initial task, at least in terms of layout, is to move to foreign exchanges.
PS. Puma is called to the topic with a story about a friend-frontender)))

Answer 1

"But the initial task is to move to foreign exchanges at least in terms of layout" - is it, like, first trying to layout, and then learning JS?) Try to do everything in a complex way - both layout and programming.
Your keywords seem to be correct (I used to look for such keywords myself, but I work in a narrower niche). And there were a lot of projects on them. I would also add javascript.
Apparently, the problem is something else. For example:
- If you try to find a weekend (Sat, Sun), then there will be fewer projects. For some it's obvious, for others it's not. There are customers who work on weekends, but 70 percent are resting.
- The time of day and the difference in time zones are important. Imagine that US customers work from 08:00 to 17:00.
Then, from the east coast, business activity for people will begin at 16-17 Moscow time, and on the west coast - at 19-20 hours. Plus, not everyone will be posting projects early in the morning.
- Perhaps your filters are somehow incorrectly configured. In general, I use lancemonitor.com to look for work on these exchanges . Already a year and a half.

Answer 2

It's just that in the West, as a rule, a designer, layout designer and front-end developer are one person. Knowledge of layout for a designer, as far as I understand, is almost mandatory there.

Answer 3

The West has a more mature market, as I understand it. Sooner or later it will be the same for us. Why first order a layout from one freelancer, then layout from another, and a stretch on the engine from a third, when one person can do it? It's all from the same opera, frontend. Maybe I'm wrong, correct me

Answer 4

I don’t have any friends of fronters on Odessa, and in general it’s customary for us where I ordered a design there and cut it into pieces for you, it makes sense to waste time looking for a layout designer.
The fronter lives in Russia, since there are not many good fronts here at all.
My neighbor still has a typesetter, he also lives purely for old customers, he says the work is in bulk, he refuses to typeset for me, typeset thousands at five rubles per page.

Answer 5

My advice to you: create a website for yourself, pour money into it, and you will have orders!

Answer 6

In the west, a web designer is a laborer who does everything himself.