10 Ways To Make Money As a Web Designer

There are many ways through which you can earn as a web designer other than freelance web designing. If you are skilled in HTML, CSS, J Query, JavaScript, PHP and Adobe Photoshop, or at least in HTML, CSS and Adobe Photoshop, you will never find yourself an unemployed person both at online or offline. To be a successful web designer requires

hard work, patience, passion and creativity. Creativity is an important factor because when we talk about web designing, uniqueness is needed in your designing and work. 

Here are some genuine methods through which you can earn as a web designer.

1. Sell Your Services as a Web Designer:

You can start your own service as a web designer. Create an impressive website and offer your services there so that people can hire you for their designing work. Lots of companies and individuals are looking for web designers who can make websites for them. In this way you can earn good income. 

You can also offer your services as a web engineer to fix website problems, upgrade or develop extra features etc. This will put extra income to your pocket.

If you don't have a website, you can offer your services at freelance websites like Elance, where lots of customers are looking for professional web designers.

  

2. Write for Blogs about Web Designing

Write for the blogs about web designing and earn $50 to $150 per post. Many web designers have their own blogs where they write tutorials about web designing. They also allow other people to write posts on their blog. Search the internet for the blogs about web designing who allows guest posting on their blogs and write for them. You must have a sound knowledge of web designing and good english writing skills as they require quality writings.

If you have a blog or a website, then guest posting also gives you good traffic to your site as well.

You can also start your own blog about web designing and write useful information and tutorials about web designing and earn by advertising by google adsense. Once your blog gains traffic (1000+ visitors/day), monetize your blog with Google Adsense and earn a passive income.

3. Create Templates and sell Online

If you don't want to make your own blog as it is a long process to earn from a blog or website, then their is another method through which you can earn in a short time. Create beautiful templates for wordpress, blogger or Joomla and sell it on Themeforest. People come to these websites to purchase themes and templates. You will be paid once any buyer buys your template. Themeforest is by far the best platform for selling your design work. You must have good knowledge of HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop etc.

Some other great platforms where you can buy/sell your web design work are:

1. Templamatic

2. Sitepoint

3. Gridgum

4. Graphic River

5. 99 Designs

You can also sell your work on your own blog or website.

4. Develop WordPress Themes

Develop wordpress themes and sell it online on themforest or other platforms. You must have a good knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP and wordpress working. All you need to do is to make a beautiful template, convert it into a working website and finally convert it into a wordpress theme. Sell it online on Themeforest or WP Theme Market and earn a passive income.

5. Sell Codes Scripts

If you are good in writing codes to make beautiful add ons, image sliders, plugins or other gadgets for websites, then you can find a large marketplace where you can sell these gadgets. You must have knowledge of JavaScript and PHP or HTML and CSS. The most famous platform for selling code scripts are Codecanyon and Codester

Some other places where you can buy/sell code scripts are:

1. Codeclerks

2. Mojo Code 

3. Codegrape

6. Logo Design

You can also earn as a logo designer. Design logos for websites and earn a good income. Their are lot of opportunities in this fields. You can even make career in logo designing. You must have a good knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and other related softwares.

You can sell logos or icons on the following platforms:

1. Stock Logos

2. Identity Crowd

3. Brand Crowd

4. Design on Click

5. Crowd Spring

6. 99 Designs 

7. Create stunning websites at Wix.com

Wix.com is an exceptional platform which makes the web designing very easy for every one! Yes, for everyone! You can make beautiful websites at wix.com with the help of their drag and drop feature. No coding skills required, no HTML skills required, no design skills required. However, If you want to place HTML, then their is an option for that. All the tools are provided. You just need to drag and drop these features to their proper places in the website and your website is ready! Now you can sell this website on Wix store and earn. Wix makes it easy for any person to create websites for free. They have very cool templates and themes by which you can create your websites for free!

Wix.com also provides the following services:

1. Web Design training

2. Free Web Hosting

3. Platform for web designers to create websites

4. Online store to sell your websites 

8. Create Your Own Web Design Store

If your website or blog has good regular traffic, then you can create an online store where you can sell your templates, themes, logos and any other design work. Sell some of your templates for free to get the visitors to your store.

9. Sell Widgets

Other than templates, themes or logos, you can make useful widgets such as Navigation menu, Social sharing widgets, recent post widget for blogger or wordpress, subscriber popup widget, static verticle sharing buttons etc.for websites and blogs and sell them. 

There are many widgets that are necessary for blogs and websites so you can find a good market for your work.

Note:

Placing your templates, themes, logos or other design work on multiple platforms will multiply your earnings as well.

10. Start Your Own Web Hosting Service

You can start your own web hosting company service. You need to rent servers from already established web hosting services like hostgator, bluehost. Host your client's websites on these rented servers and charge some monthly fee.

For web hosting services, you must have a good knowledge of how web hosting works, how to access the control panel. You need to have a good knowledge of designing skills as well.

Lot of time is needed to set up a web hosting service but once it is established, you can earn massive incomes through web hosting.

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