My friend who is a graphic designer is resigning from her current job to join a different company. While waiting for her new job to start, she wants to put some of her time to good use as a freelancer. Her skills are quite amazing as she has design packagings for products of XXXX, YYYY and others but she is new to freelancing.

My friend is a designer, I am a hobbyist programmer. We thought that it might be a good idea for us to work together and have decided to get together to start our own freelancing team to earn some extra pocket money. She do the design, I do the programming. However, we have no idea where to start. Any advise?

Her services
- Logo design
- Letterhead design
- Newsletter design
- Desktop Publishing
- Web Designing

My services
- Web Programming

Her design skills
- Flash & Actionscript
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
- Dreamweaver
- Fireworks
- InDesign
- Premiere (yes, I know this is video editting)
- QuarkXPress
- After Effects
- The rest I dunno..

My programming skills
- C#
- ASP.NET
- SQL
- ADO.NET
- Crystal Reports
1. How should we start out as a freelancer? Would it be a good choice to start out bidding for projects at twogateways.com, rentacoder.com, etc?

2. How do people usually charge for a static HTML website?

3. How do people usually charge for a dynamic website?

P/s: Sorry if this is on the wrong section. I am hoping some pros like etsuko and others to come in and help give some advises / comments.

am truly sorry for late reply for this.. but now take a break from freelancing coz concentrating on fyp and thesis research.. but all i can say is to have a platform to do any freelance job without being paid at first.. do free websites for clubs.

I also want to get some parttime job http://binbin.deviantart.com/gallery, http://style4u.net

never mind... i see i see... doing so now... hehe...

the price guide for web design...may be u guy can refer here:

www.channel2.com.my

sorry.. tumpang thread..

i have got a freelance job introduced by my friend too.. and this is my first assignment. would like to ask, what are the procedures that you guys practice? need some guidelines. do i ask for partial agreed-payment before finishing the whole assignment or full-payment only when i present the final product which to me seems a little bit dangerous.

thanks in advance!

sorry.. tumpang thread..

i have got a freelance job introduced by my friend too.. and this is my first assignment. would like to ask, what are the procedures that you guys practice? need some guidelines. do i ask for partial agreed-payment before finishing the whole assignment or full-payment only when i present the final product which to me seems a little bit dangerous.

thanks in advance!