Good designers are indeed artists as well. Technical skill is important, too, though. I have more artistic skill and less technical skill. I tend to just work with small, local businesses.
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Originally Posted by gregdavidson
Even working face-to-face really can't help most freelance web designers. I honestly wouldn't want to meet face-to-face with any of the freelancers I've worked with because I would probably end up screaming at them for wasting my time. I would often give a freelancer the simplest description in the world "I want a website that is similar in quality look to this website". What they would often deliver is something that looks like complete garbage and does not even compare to what I showed them. I even had a designer do a screenshot of a website and change around the colors to make it look like he drew the template on photoshop. "Quality" web design can easily be compared to art. I wouldn't go to school to be an artist because I don't have enough natural creativity to be a "good" artist. Many freelance web designers know they don't have the creativity yet they're doing it because they know how much money people are willing to pay for it.
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