Where can a website designer look for customers if you only know how to work in Photoshop and do not know how to layout?

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Where to look for customers for a website designer, if you know how to work in Photoshop and do not know how to layout?
I specialize in selling landing page web design (3 years experience). English is weak, not enough to work on foreign freelance exchanges. And now customers mainly need 2-in-1 specialists - both a designer and a layout designer all rolled into one. I get a vicious circle: there is no money to improve my skills, because one design is enough to make ends meet. But surely there are customers somewhere who need website designers, and not layout designers? For some reason, I can't get to those.

Answer 1

https://moikrug.ru/vacancies/1000026127 - I think these are not the only customers. Seek and find!
Although I would still undertake to learn something else, it’s too narrow, so my friend was sitting in the office on a good salary, he also drew designs, though he also cut them, but the specifics of the sites were unidirectional, a very narrow range of tasks, but for development he didn’t do anything himself, because he got a little lazy, and there was work at the company ... Now the office was covered with a copper dish, with a portfolio like that of gypsy artists, not a single office is particularly rushing to take it, although it is very good in its niche. Conclusion - do not forget that the market at any moment turns its back to you ... so study, study and study again, as bequeathed to the same name must not be called.
PS: Still, look towards the mobile segment - now there is more money there, for example, toys, interfaces, if you have artistic abilities - draw characters for games, this is generally cool. And in terms of money and creative development IMHO.

Answer 2

And now customers mostly need 2 in 1 specialists - both a designer and a layout designer

Doubtful. If a designer knows how to make up well, then this is a plus, but not a mandatory requirement.
The main thing is that there is a desire and time. There are a lot of free materials on the net.
In general, I recommend not to get hung up on the design of the landing page. Read about interfaces, usability. Try drawing art. The light has not converged like a wedge on these landing pages.

Answer 3

no money to upgrade skills

How are you going to improve your skills?
There is also self-learning. It takes commitment and time. Courses, seminars, master classes are first and foremost business. Ultimately, your teacher or your teacher's teacher learned everything on his own and did not pay money for it. Most programmers study on their own.

Answer 4

Where to look for customers for a website designer

On freelance exchanges, my son. Where else?

Answer 5

There are several options:
1. Exchanges
2. Collaboration - look for people who have a lot of turnkey orders, but not enough specialists
3. Work in a company - stable income, experience, portfolio or just change jobs until the conditions for further freelancing
improve yourself wherever possible - forums, communities, blogs and more. Take part in discussions, write your articles and showcase your portfolio. And yes, you should not be limited only to landing pages, you should be a little universal (in terms of design) - master 3D or design a mob. applications, etc.

Answer 6

https://htmlacademy.ru/
take all the courses, then watch a video on how landing pages are made up,
then read a book on js and you can make it up for customers

Answer 7

What's the problem.
You find a layout designer / front-end developer as a partner (ideally, you can also find a proger), and you can offer clients the production of sites on a turnkey basis.
If anything - write [email protected]