Designing for a Client

Background
As a web designer you will be creating the majority of your website for paying clients. We have a lot of experience creating for ourselves but now we need to create for others. A way to learn about clients is to study how freelance designers operate and learn from their experiences. A freelance designer is a designer who works primarily from home. Freelancers own their own business, pay their own taxes, and manager their own finances. Many web designers are freelance.

Read this page and this page. Take notes on both.

Objectives

• Study the work of a freelance designer and calculate his/her expenses.
  
• Analyze current financial trends in order to create an invoice for services rendered.

Steps

1. Complete the Freelance Designer worksheet and pass in to me.
   
2. Write down 10 questions to ask your client.
3. Create an invoice for services rendered. 

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