Some may consider that for being a good web designer you have to have some artistic sense in order to create an attractive design for the web pages, you have to be a programmer in order to understand what's behind the page and the mechanisms of the internet servers and the world wide web, you have to be at least a SEO consultant (or even a SEO expert) in order to make the web sites optimized for the search engines. It's true, all these skills can help a lot if you decide to create web sites and you can always learn about the sub8jects or you can always gather a team of people that can do everything for you.
But there are some things you can not replace and if you don't have them in you don't start web designing.
Communication Skills
Everything over internet is communication: in their websites people are trying to send a message in a proper way. They might know the message (if you are lucky - some of my clients had an idea and that's all) but they don't know how to put it into practice. In this case you have to explain them how things are working on internet and what's the best thing to do in order to get the most and the best results from their idea, how to spread the message to the people in the best way.
Having good communication skills means you may take the lead from time to time and, the most important, to have a lot of patience. Your subject of interest and job is the internet, but as a web designer you have to work also with people. So if you don't know how to work with people try a different job.
Being complacent
As I noticed, some web designers try to satisfy the clients' every whim. The first and the most important result is a loss in time and energy for every project and that's not productive. But the clients are NOT always right, and an experienced web designer knows it very well, so the second result is a slow loading website - something so big and so fuzzy that some people will never visit it again.
Be professional and know when and how to say NO to a client when he or she is asking the wrong things. If you can't do this don't webdesign.
Know how and what to delegate
As I wrote earlier, you don't have to know all the skills to be a brilliant web designer (as programming languages, working with image softwares like Photoshop or Corel Draw, SEO). This skills help a lot, but you can not do it all in order to be successful in your job. It very helpul to gather around you some experts in their field and delegate parts of the project according to people's skills.
Finding a niche
The internet is huge and it's getting bigger every day. It's very difficult to involve in every field of activity there (even in webdesign). Find yourself one or more niches (but not too many) and become an expert - you'll get more projects that you'll love to do in this manner. Passion is very important in having success.
It's important to learn about different fields of web designing, but if you strech yourself to much you'll do nothing of value to post as resume.
The search engine optimisation part is very important for websites - they have to match certain criteria in order to appear as often as possible in the search results on Google and Bing. SEO (search engine optimization) starts from site / online store / platform development because it involves a specific structure of the pages, it involves an ease to browse for the visitors (for your clients) and it involves quicky loading when accessed. Our sites are delived already optimized, but if you have already a solution developed by someone else we analize your website and we offer consultancy - we'll tell you about the options you have about to boost its visibility and organic traffic.
We develop websites to present your activity to the world and applications for internet that help you organize your activity as eficient as possible and without loses (in money, time and energy) wherever you are. Do you need an online store or a tool available for you anytime? We can develop that as long you reserve a domain name and some hosting space, the app is our job.
We develop web applications and mobile apps (Android) for various companies and organisations according to their specifications and requirements. The apps are being used by employees and partners to work more efficient and with less costs for the company: the web applications can be accessed through the browsers installed on smartphones and tablets but the usage of a complementary mobile app can make efficiency to go up (it can increase the communication between people or it can show things not so important on PC).
We offer consultancy about the informatic system you have installed and we offer sollutions to make the more efficient, to improve and develop them further, we analize the activities inside your company and / organisation and we offer sollutions for the projects you want to develop.
