Farr Design » t-shirt design http://farrdesign.net/blog Web Design and ramblings. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:03:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Odd Jobs for Web Designers: Easy Ways to Make a Quick Buck http://farrdesign.net/blog/2010/02/09/odd-jobs-for-web-designers-easy-ways-to-make-a-quick-buck/ http://farrdesign.net/blog/2010/02/09/odd-jobs-for-web-designers-easy-ways-to-make-a-quick-buck/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:05:54 +0000 Afarr http://farrdesign.net/blog/?p=158 As web designers we’d like to be doing web design work ALL the time but that’s just not the case. Here are some ways to make some extra money as a web designer:

Sell Stock

graphic river

Everyone now a days owns a pretty decent camera and can take nice pictures and upload them fast. Instead of having them sit on your computer collecting e-dust (?) why not see if any one of the image stock sites will take them. Some of them have fairly high standards but some of them don’t. Basically though if you know the rule of thirds anyone can make a nice stock photo. It’s nice to be able to upload a photo, forget about it and be able to make some money on it.

Design/Sell T-shirts and Other Stuff

threadless

Web design is a very creative field of work but sometimes you just want to design something that you like and not have to worry about what your clients think so If you’re feeling a bit more creative you can design t-shirts. There are a couple options, you can enter design contests and win prizes like on threadless or you can design anything you want and put it out there for sale and make money off of commission like on zazzle.

Design/Sell Templates

theme forest

We are web designers so I’m sure you, as I do, have some unfinished projects lying around or designs that didn’t make it to the cutting board. Why not try to sell some of those. You’ll have to make it more user friendly (or not) but it’s a good way to make some cash out of those unfinished projects. In my opinion it’s not worth it to create templates from scratch and sell them to these places because if you think about it I’d sell a template for say $750 but they will sell it for $10 plus you usually only get a percentage of that let’s say it’s %60 so really you are getting $6 per each one sold so you’d have to sell 125 templates to make up for what you’d sell normally. Just my opinion though.

Design/Sell Fonts

linotype

This is something you can do but you have to have a bit of a different skill set to do this. Meaning you’ll need to learn a couple of new things but if you’re into typography this can be lucrative for you.

Search Job Boards

get a freelancer

Job boards are not only a decent way to get new web design clients but also to do odds and ends jobs. Some easy quick ways to make a buck through job boards are:

  • ebook formatting
  • banner design
  • simple website fixes
  • button design
  • photo touch up
  • and much more

Here are some job boards that I frequent:

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