As an independent designer, I was wondering how recession-proof web design is... Maybe 2001, 2002 should bring back some memories of toil and strife?...

"Paevo Kelley" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> As an independent designer, I was wondering how recession-proof web design
> is... Maybe 2001, 2002 should bring back some memories of toil and
> strife?...

I think web design/development is changing fast, and success will depend
upon having the right skills.


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> As an independent designer, I was wondering how recession-proof web design
> is... Maybe 2001, 2002 should bring back some memories of toil and
> strife?...

Is ANYTHING truly recession proof?

-Darrel

Nothing is recession-proof. People (businesses especially) cut back on their
spending and web sites are no different. I was writing web sites leading up
to 2001, mostly for large businesses. When it hit, everyone cut back.
Businesses that would have updated their site four times a year and
completely redo it once or twice a year went to making small tweaks and
changes. Instead of writing a new site with a new approach for them, it was
"can we make changes to these two pages?" Other businesses that had fancy,
fun, interesting sites cut back to no-fun, no-frills, business-oriented
sites. In fact, this is when so much of the fun went out of business web
sites and everyone decided it had to make good dollars and cents sense and
there was no room for fun or creativity.

The business will still be there, but be prepared for people wanting to pay
less for the same thing or at the least, just wanting smaller, cheaper
sites.

MD


Paevo Kelley wrote:
> As an independent designer, I was wondering how recession-proof web
> design is... Maybe 2001, 2002 should bring back some memories of toil
> and strife?...

"Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
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> The business will still be there, but be prepared for people wanting to
> pay less for the same thing or at the least, just wanting smaller, cheaper
> sites.

Or to create the site themselves, or have a nephew do it.. <sigh>.


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P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
> "Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
> news:ftlibv$d8k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>
>> The business will still be there, but be prepared for people wanting
>> to pay less for the same thing or at the least, just wanting
>> smaller, cheaper sites.
>
> Or to create the site themselves, or have a nephew do it.. <sigh>.

....and then call you to fix up the mess they made and wind up paying as much
or more than they would have had they gotten you to do it in the first
place.....(:})

"Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
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> P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
>> "Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
>> news:ftlibv$d8k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>>
>>> The business will still be there, but be prepared for people wanting
>>> to pay less for the same thing or at the least, just wanting
>>> smaller, cheaper sites.
>>
>> Or to create the site themselves, or have a nephew do it.. <sigh>.
>
> ...and then call you to fix up the mess they made and wind up paying as
> much or more than they would have had they gotten you to do it in the
> first place.....(:})

...And then find another relative or intern to do it, and leave you writing
time-consuming proposals for 3 or 4 web sites a month, but not getting
nearly enough of the contracts because they're all just shopping and taking
advantage of you, so that you get tired of the whole thing and leave the
country for a while to do volunteer work, and then come back and start up
doing web design again, but with a different business model.. oh, sorry, was
I actually writing that? :-)


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P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
> "Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
> news:ftlj85$e81$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>> P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
>>> "Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ftlibv$d8k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>>>
>>>> The business will still be there, but be prepared for people
>>>> wanting to pay less for the same thing or at the least, just
>>>> wanting smaller, cheaper sites.
>>>
>>> Or to create the site themselves, or have a nephew do it.. <sigh>.
>>
>> ...and then call you to fix up the mess they made and wind up paying
>> as much or more than they would have had they gotten you to do it in
>> the first place.....(:})
>
> ..And then find another relative or intern to do it, and leave you
> writing time-consuming proposals for 3 or 4 web sites a month, but
> not getting nearly enough of the contracts because they're all just
> shopping and taking advantage of you, so that you get tired of the
> whole thing and leave the country for a while to do volunteer work,
> and then come back and start up doing web design again, but with a
> different business model.. oh, sorry, was I actually writing that? :-)
>

Actually you were pretty much describing what happened in 2001....I went to
Bali for 8 months and when I got back most of the corporate website writing
had vanished and I got more into the web design part of it. I wonder what
I'll shift to this time around!