To say the least, IMO there's nothing wrong with you accepting such amount/ fees paid for such a site.

Unlike housing projects which can be calculated ( cement, ironsworks etc.) online project's are much flexi-quoted thing. This is because no standards in measuring a website's value till now.

For me, it's fine to take any amounts of money, as long as you think it would be worth the pain in the a$$ you'd bear.
Gudlak and keep your business growing 

Actually I've heard of some web designers giving free sites away, just to build their portfolio, as well as build links back to their own site, which advertises their web design services.

Just make sure you do a good job and good luck.

free and low-cost is fine for starting, no choice la.

but it's a problem when people keep doing it that way.

Goldy, still preaching the same thing? LOL!

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1) Courier Company
2) Needs Package Tracking (probably means 1 database to store data and PHP for the checking and adding script)
3) Decent design, no complicated flash or so...

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no offence, but free templates are more worth paying..

but good try!!

jensen, understood and you can always find an honest review from me.

There's a trend of companies looking to hire website designers or the popular one today is graphic designers come website designers - which in my opinion is stupid. So in other words, finding a job would depend when you graduate and how hardworking you are in trying to look for a job. A portfolio website will get you lucky sometimes - I landed my internship through that way.

Other than a website, you could send out a friendly email and resume with a link to your portfolio to companies in the web business. There are a numerous number of them and some of them don't really use Jobstreet. The other places you could check out from time to time bout vacancies in the design industry is at www.doxob.com.

The other part about defining the toughness of this career is that you'll need more than passion but patience to survive it. Being the asian culture, some bosses or superiors expect their colleagues to work overtime and the worst part if there's no replacement for the work done either in payment or a leave. Also, be expected to make lots of changes to clients work because the boss tries to please everyone - part of asian culture maybe.

The industry when working also demands you to be able to work quick and that sometimes kinda kills your creativity because you aren't given much freedom to come up with a conceptual design/solution. I think in terms of salary the industry is quite fair nowadays but there are stingy companies.

So if you're going to have to work for someone someday.. you'll need skills, dedication, lots of patience, passion (to keep on believing in yourself and what you love to do) and a little less sleep depending if the company concentrates more on advertising - tend to be the most hectic. Providence the member has more experience in this side.

Well, that's basically the hardships I went through when working.

i use notepad to edit PHP files occasionally (fast loading mah) and have no problem with it but notepad is a horrible editor to use for development la.