How/what can an ordinary layout designer make money on?

Question

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I'm a layout designer. I know CSS and HTML well, but I don't know JS and PHP, I consider my layout to be good.
I type validly and cross-browser, follow the news in the field of web design and other things.
But there is a problem - I can’t find how to make money on my skills, which is even a little insulting, because there are crooked layout designers who make good money ...
What should I do? How and where to earn? At least a small income, at least 5-10k per month will suit me.

Answer 1

General advice that has already been given:
+ learn js,
+ learn english at least to intermediate,
+ generate a portfolio,
+ what kind of layout designer without his website? make it perfect and store your portfolio and contacts there, if possible, put your copyright on the sites you create with a link to the portfolio (of course, if the customer does not mind),
+ in your free time, tear some kind of backend (RoR or Django)
I’ll add from myself: quit PHP and never think about it, it may get better, but it will never get rid of its dark past (and variables with a dollar sign, oh my!). When there are a couple of good reviews, feel free to go to the freelance exchange, like odesk. With RoR and a good, beautiful, technologically advanced, cross-browser front-end, it’s quite possible to have $100 per hour there.
Oh yeah, learn to copy-paste quickly. Use plugins. Get rid of all sorts of attempts to file the bike, even if it will be faster and better. Over time, this skill will allow you to make websites at the speed of a machine gun. Then you will comprehend dark zen and get your portion of cookies. I'm completely serious when you set up a server in 2 minutes, put Bootstrap on it in 1 minute and customize it (pull the layout from pre-created templates) in 5 minutes, hang it with the necessary widgets from js, html5 and css3 in 5 minutes and after 15 minutes after receiving the order you send it to the customer, a strange feeling of euphoria sets in. Of course, this is an incomprehensible Zen, as always, according to Murphy's law, some library will fall off, something will glitch, and layout will crawl somewhere and debug will take a couple of hours, but still, making a full-fledged site in 3 hours is priceless.

Answer 2

You can try to find a job in the web agencies of your city.

Answer 3

Learn hard jQuery, JavaScript, JavaScript MVC and look for a job at the same time. You will quickly raise the level at work - and a front-end specialist! Good luck ;-)

Answer 4

Find a partner who will bring your layout to life and put it on engines, and you just do the layout.

Answer 5

That's what people like to.. chat about)

Answer 6

your crossbows are not needed by cool offices. look here:
let’s say a cool production office wants to order a website from you. what do they need?
1. unique functionality (php or javascript) - some kind of calculator or something like that.
2. beautiful, stable version for browsers.
about the first I think it is clear why. I’ll explain about the second now:
cool offices, again, production, sell to whom? right, partners, large suppliers and other companies that are not frail like themselves. and these sickly companies employ ordinary managers. and what do you say? but just it.
Let's say a company is looking for another production company. and entrusts this matter to the same office workers. and what, an office worker will be at home, in the evening in his free time, to look for your site that you made? no, they will look at work where regular PCs are. that's all. I earn about 10k a month. on the kolymakh, and no one else has bought a version for mobile phones and tablets from me. because they are aimed at the wrong audience.
and in general, without JS and PHP there is nowhere to develop further. so my advice is to boldly take projects with JS and PHP and try to do them. (of course, after you know at least something)
and jquery will make js coding much easier for you than pure js. again, as mentioned above.

Answer 7

Freelance. It is quite possible to find orders for yourself, and, with good layout quality, earn much more per month even without knowledge of js. The only thing you just need is a portfolio. Take what you did, put it on any server where you can give a link. If there is nothing - take free templates more difficult, and make it as high quality as possible.
If knowledge of English is enough for communication - odesk.com. If not - Runet freelance exchanges (google easily, further to taste).