Review: Start Your Own Home-Based Website Design Business

Mark Frank's Start Your own Home-Based Website Design Business will not teach you how to design a website. If you want to learn about HTML or the many technologies associated with creating a website, then you should look elsewhere. What it will teach you is how to establish a successful home-based business doing what you love - designing websites. And it's not just theory - Mark has been there and done it!

Sample Website Design Contracts

If you're a web designer searching for sample website design contracts then your search may have led you to this page. I know - I spent a lot of time searching for sample contracts as well. Well, your search is over. OK, you'll have to buy the book, so they're not exactly free, but have you ever found a free website design contract that you can actually use? Neither did I!

Mark has included the following sample website design contracts and documents that you can actually modify and use in your own website design business:

website design business plan
website design proposal
website design contract
mini contract
subcontract agreement
contract amendment
invoice

These inclusions alone are worth the cover price of the book!

The book itself is divided into these chapters:

Getting Started
Getting Work
Managing the Work
Your Business Site
and an appendix which includes the aforementioned contracts and other documents

The only thing I could be critical of is the info on setting up a business. The info provided applies only to businesses in the US - great if that's where you live, but not so great if you live outside the US. But then I guess it would be too impractical to include info on other countries.

In summary, if you're a website designer looking to strike out on your own, or if you're already running your own business and need a great resource - then I recommend you get Start Your Own Home-Based Website Design Business. No need to search everywhere for those sample website design contracts either - they're all right here!