What's with the lack of coders and designers nowadays?

My friends in the coding or design biz are mostly swamped with freelance gigs or work for large companies, providing them with work all the time. What I am pointing out is that people who are experienced and do a great job have loads of work and are mostly not available, especially not for some small, low-paying projects. Maybe that's why you ran into "overpriced or rubbish quality work."

I build my landers with mobirise. Anyone using anything better than that?

This is probably why you can't find anyone.

Send me an email asking for hours of work for max $200, and I'm gonna only respond with an invoice for $1500 for wasting my time opening that email.

It's not the early 2000's anymore, developers are among the top paid career in the world.

I won't even entertain a project that is less than $100k budget.

Unless you are mega established in the industry then it's very tough to make a liveable wage in adult as a programmer. Your alternative is working for a corporation for loads of money and stability. Getting small projects done is now troublesome in ANY industry - not just programming. If I have a loose floor tile, no one is going to come and reattach one tile. It took me 3 months to even get someone to come give me a quote to do a stone fascade on my house. 3 months JUST TO GET A QUOTE. I couldn't even get as far as someone telling me too much and me telling them to fuck off. I wanted to expand my driveway a bit (paving stone) and again unless you are building an ikea parking lot no one wants to come do it.

Ah lol you are exaggerating but you do have a point - it's better to focus on big clients then fuck around with bunch of small ones.

Speaking about other occupations, noticed there is huge demand for electricians - any idea what is such a fuss about it ? There is even big billboard on entrance of my city asking for electricians, still standing even after 5 years.

Damn you're out here flexing that you have a driveway?

I really need to finish my tube killer!

Can't say I noticed anything like that here, but possibly might have something to do with UA men not being able to leave UA and causing a labour shortage but that wouldn't have started 5 years ago...

There have been a variety of designers over the years. Many take on full time salary contracts from large companies, some have priced themselves so low that they can't make a living and go back to mainstream and some have issues with their company (missed deadlines, dropped projects, etc) so they disappear for several years and then come back hoping for a fresh start.

At Zuzana Designs, we ask for a 50% deposit with the rest being due before starting html (since this seems to be where many people disappear) or delivery if it’s just PSDs. Our pricing used to be much higher because we offered integration and programming but for the last couple years we’ve eliminated those things from our company to just focus on purely design so designs from us are less expensive, though you’ll still need a separate programmer for integrations. If using MechBunny, they usually just need PSDs from us and handle integration themselves.

Asking for a budget isn’t always a trap to max it out. If someone has a huge idea that I know is going to be a ton of work to organize and quote with a big price tag, I’ll ask for a general budget just to see if it’s even close. If it’s not, having a budget will help me give other options that may fit your needs at the desired price tag.

As much as I WISH every client would say just design my site any way you want, that RARELY happens so sites having outdated looks really falls on the client and not the designer. We can do our best to give ideas and try to move the project to be more modern but it all comes down to what the client wants because it’s our job to provide that to them.

If you’d ever like a quote, please hit us up at [email protected]. We’ve worked on hundreds of tubes and sites with MechBunny and we have a solid 20 year reputation in the business.

If you're only wanting to spend $100-$200, then that's why nobody wants to work with you. Cheap people like that in adult are why developers and designers don't cater to this industry very much.

You get what you pay for and all that.

It's almost as if some people have ethics and morals. Hard to believe, isn't it?

I only seek freelance work through agencies now who have professional teams and multi-million dollar corporations as clients. I've wasted too much time dealing with amateurs who want the world built for 3 digit dollar amounts.

Dude you lick the balls of the Tates you fucking loser.

You dropped this

Big words coming from a coward who refuses to settle this like men. My invitation still stands for me to fly to Kelowna, Canada and fight in any style of your choice at any dojo or boxing ring with a referee. Bring your girl and kid too, they need see me mop the floor with your bitch ass.



Fight me, pussy.