I have had this domain name and the hosting for a while now, and i've been toying around trying to make a small web/graphic design company, but to be honost, I'm horrible at anything business related. This brings me to now, where I'm really just looking for good ideas for nodesignlimits.com that can benefit a group of people. I'm really into photoshop and i really love css div positioning design and what can be done (csszengarden).. If anyone here has any good ideas that could motivate me that would be awesome. I'm also open to working with other people too, so if your interested you can post here or email me.

Thanks,
Conner

If you are interested, you can help around at Abstract Design...

You know, if you're terrible at business, the Web can help you. If you have any technical/programming skills, you should be able to set up a shopping cart system. Make your services the thing people can buy -- break it down by day or weekly rates, or else offer package deals. Part of the ordering process would be a nicely designed (by you) walkthrough that asks the client for all the necessary information to build a site -- name of company, domain name (if any), marketing collateral (logos, text, etc.), contact person(s), and so on. In this way, you could build up a design company that has automated the sales pitch, and the money collection. All you do at that point is wait for each purchased contract to come in, and get to work doing what you love.

For bonus points, you could design a calendaring tool, so that potential clients can see when their purchased product would be delivered. You could factor in existing projects, so that if you are backlogged, a client can see that it will be a 2 month wait. And if you've got nothing going on, they could see that the project will be done immediately.

Good luck with the business. Remember to leverage the Web to help with your weak areas.

The only twe programming skills I have mastered so far are HTML and CSS. I've worked a little bit with PHP, but I'm hoping to take a class at school soon. Until then, do you think it's such a bad thing to download premade scripts? I mean afterall, what i do is the design, not really the programming. Maybe if I had someone on my team that had their expertise in say, the php or javascript area, that could help me out a bit. I'm thinking those kind of people are probably already working or are in very high demand though.

-Orin, the link you gave me doesn't work... I even tried spelling abstract right and it still doesn't register. I think you just made a simple error. But that sounds fun .

Nope, you can always start with a pre-made script. As a matter of fact, I can do ASP.NET, JSP, Java, HTML, CSS and Visual Basic but I know nuts about PHP. I am currently trying to modify the pre-made script that I have. Learning PHP is made easy since I already know the other scripting languages.

I had a fun idea today. What if no design limits was a css gallary... I have yet to see one of those. I'm not talking about something like csszengarden.com, but something along the lines of this: You can go to different catagories such as menus, headers, text, full pages, background, ideas.. and you can see people's css coding on these different things. I think it might be a hit for people either looking for free cool css designs or even just as some inspiration for their own css. CSS is extremely important in web design these days and people need to learn that :P

Not a bad idea if you can get it to work.

I'm trying to find a good free gallary script i could edit.. but I don't think there's anything close to what I need. I'm going to need to find someone who knows php to do me a favor