Today’s lesson

·         Finding out what the client wants and making sure that it’s doable, or to make sure that you can learn the skills this can be done by finding people in the industry. Most people in the industry are happy to help and you can learn far more than you can from them than going online.

·         Budget but as student the pay if any will be small but most of the work will be done for nothing but what’s the most important part is the experience.

·         But as a student don’t take professional jobs as you are taking work form the industry’s professionals and this might mean you take jobs from them. but in the future you might need these professionals to help you get into the industry.

·         After getting a job you must research the audience to find out the key information that is needed to market to them ,this information is the most important part of the project as you can make the greatest product ever but if it don’t get the target audiences attention the site will fail. This is demographics and socioeconomics are the key parts of locating the target audience’s.

·         The hourly rate for a web designer is £35-£50 depending on the job that

·         DP is your personal expenses that occur during the project that you are on, these can be anything from travel to food.

·         Negotiating deadlines, deadlines are a key part of any project allowing you and the client to keep a check on the progress of the project, the deadline must be realistic when you set it. But after the deadline has been decided between you and the client you should make your own deadline giving you and extra week or two at the end in case that you miss one deadline you still have time to complete the task before it’s too late.  A common clause that comes  with these contracts is that if you don’t meet the deadline you must pay a daily percentage as a form of compensation .