Does web design have a future in 'high wage' countries? (was RE: [thelist] RE: Template Monster [WAS: A Beginner Freelance Question])

[YoYoEtc]

OMG!  It's just tragic!!!!!  There is a lot of skill involved in web site 
design, too. A big learning curve!  It has to come back around again, 
though.  Let's face it, most of those people in those other countries who 
design for $2 an hour don't have that much knowledge. I've worked with some 
of the database programmers and they do not all have a great deal of 
in-depth knowledge.

I don't know what is happening to this world!  It is very worrying indeed.

What really bothers me is that in my last place of employment we had an 
outside tech consultant - this was a small company.  He did web design on 
the side - well, he didn't.  He got the work and farmed it out to one of 
"those" countries, paid them $2 an hour and charged the client $60 an 
hour!  The tech consultant wasn't a designer either. He taught himself with 
Dreamweaver! I was furious.

At 05:10 PM 7/23/2004, jsWalter wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of YoYoEtc
> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 3:46 PM
> > To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> > Subject: Re: Does web design have a future in 'high wage'
> > countries? (was RE: [thelist] RE: Template Monster [WAS: A
> > Beginner Freelance Question])
> >
> >
> > Are there really people developing sites for $49.95?  I
> > assume these are
> > just the one-page sites owned perhaps by private individuals??
>
>Drop over to rent-a-coder.com or freelancer.com and cry.
>
>It makes me cry just thinking about it.
>
>Walter
>
>
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