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During out NMT lecture the previous week, my teacher has invited a former TP student from IIT school, Lionel Chin, the co-founder of ripplewerkz to come forward and tell us about his job as a “Web designer”, how he made his way up from a freelance to opening a web designing company of himself, how much he charges for the website, and also suggestions for students who aspire to be the next upcoming web designer, and also the difference between a freelance web designer and a full-time web designer working for a company, and also the harsh reality out there for web designers.
As I enquired more from Mr.Chin, i learnt that the cost of creating a website can vary from different prices from $200 to thousands depending on the add-ons and if it requires flash or any other applications they would like to add into the website. Mr Chin also suggested to us to start out as freelance web designers as it does not require more responsibility. However, the pay for a freelance is defiantely different from a full-time one due to the responsibilities done, if a web designing company is not able to showcase a proper work of a website by the given deadline, they could be sued and have to pay more for what they did wrongly, a freelance designer however, has the leisure to not put full responsibility into their projects due to being held up by their own duties outside of that job. They can also choose to not submit the project on the deadline but however that may cause them to lose their paycheck.
Web designers also have to pay close attention to their customer’s needs, if they made a mistake somewhere which does not appeal to the customer, customers can actually choose to reject that idea and they might even reprimanded or even get sued if they’re working for a company.
Mr chin himself started out as a freelance and slowly built his portfolio up to gain more favour for his customers, he also suggests getting a customer base before starting out as full-time otherwise the publicity might not be good enough.
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