How to Start a Home-Based Web Design Business

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Summary: YOUR WEB DESIGN MADE-EASY
Review: This book, "How To Start A Home-Based Web Design Business", could be called: Your Web Design Made-Easy.
Jim Smith is no Professor of Graphics, yet, his book remains useful. It is exciting, straightforward, and business-like. It is devoid of any artificial air.
Well, I am a hobbyist, who do not plan to start a Web Design business; but I found the tips in this guide quite interesting. What I learnt from it enhanced my Web hobby, although that I must add that it is not completely fool-proof. Combine it with a more detailed, more professional text, for the best result. That's exactly what I did!

Rating:
Summary: YOUR WEB DESIGN MADE-EASY
Review: This book, "How To Start A Home-Based Web Design Business", could be called: Your Web Design Made-Easy.
Jim Smith is no Professor of Graphics, yet, his book remains useful. It is exciting, straightforward, and business-like. It is devoid of any artificial air.
Well, I am a hobbyist, who do not plan to start a Web Design business; but I found the tips in this guide quite interesting. What I learnt from it enhanced my Web hobby, although that I must add that it is not completely fool-proof. Combine it with a more detailed, more professional text, for the best result. That's exactly what I did!

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Summary: Good Book
Review: This was the book that I was looking for. I was recently starting my own web design business and this book fit exactly with what my goals were. It shows you everything that you should do and think about when starting this kind of business. Was worth the money for anyone starting a web design business.

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Summary: A good start, but could have gone deeper.
Review: While the author did a good job of putting a large amount of information into a small amount of space, this book may have been more effective if he had gone into greater detail in the areas he covered. The chapter on business plans is helpful, but there are a ton of other books dedicated to the subject. What is most important to people who would like to start a web design business are questions such as "How should I set my rates?", "How do I find contracts?" and "How should I proceed through interviews?". While all of these topics are covered, they aren't covered with quite enough depth to give readers all of the information they need. The basics are great, but what book do you turn to when you need more? Anyhow, it's definitely worth picking up if you're just getting started and need the absolute basics and some pretty good advice, but if you've already started your business and you need some more detailed and specific information, I suggest you keep shopping.