Make Money Online by Creating Graphics for the Web Publishers

The Internet is a world of websites. Online users access the Internet to find and visit websites. So, content is the vital part of websites. But, as people say, a picture or image can speak thousands words; and images can make website interactive and interesting. Thus, images and pictures are needed by the web publishers.

There are already billions of websites. But still a huge number of new websites are launching on Internet every day. This seems like created a never-ending demand for online graphic arts. If you know how to create attractive designs and possess the skills of creating and manipulating images, then you will find that there are a lot of money can be made in the World Wide Web.

They are several types of graphics you can create and make money:

Headers
Header is situated at the top of website. Most web publishers want a header for their website. Headers are actually the images that contain the website's title and tell the visitors what the site is about.

Banners
Banners are image ads with different sizes. Web publishers place their banners on other websites so that they can promote their own web pages, products or services.

Ecovers
A book will have a hard cover and so as e-book and online report, they will have their own e-cover. People also need e-cover for their software program. You can use Adobe Photoshop to help you streamline the e-covers creation process.

Sales Page Sets
A sale page needs different graphics to help make the products sell. A complete set of graphics for a sale page will include headers, e-covers, order buttons and backgrounds that will represent the products being sold.

Logos
Each business website has it own unique logo. And nowadays, even web publishers want a logo for their content website and blog.

Other Graphics
As online sellers and web publishers will have different needs for their websites. Sometimes, they may need graphics that are relevant exactly to their website's content, diagrams and charts for their online business. Thus, as a graphics service provider, you have to be flexible enough to meet every need of your clients.

How to charge your clients?
You will most probably want to follow the general procedure which is charge your clients per project. Charging on hourly rate is also possible but it will be very difficult to ascertain. The price you can charge for your different projects are:

Headers - $20 to as high as $100 per header you create.

Banners - The charge is $5 to $45 typically.

Ecovers - Usually start with $25 to as high as $90.

Sales page sets - More graphics will need to be created in the sale page set. So you can charge $60 to $300.

Logos - Can be $35 to $500.

The prices that you can charge will depend on the reputation you have built as a graphic designer. If you have established a name for yourself as a graphic provider who always provides quality and satisfied works then the clients will be willing to pay the high prices you charge them. But, if you just got into this freelancing opportunity, you should keep your charge low to attract clients, build up your portfolio and your name in the graphic design field.

As people need help in graphic design often, they will post their ads on freelance service website like Elance.com and RentaACoder.com. So, you may initially search for works on these freelancing sites.