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Depending on the market, absolutely. Especially if you are not averse to templating-style work. But given the experience you shared, I don't really know if you

Depending on the market, absolutely. Especially if you are not averse to templating-style work. But given the experience you shared, I don't really know if you mean that you are providing end-to-end experiences, e.g. bundling a static site generator and instructions as to how to blog with it, or if you are instead just packaging flat files with .html to be opened in the browser OR maybe used for someone else's templating work, and that's it. If it's more just "I wanna author HTML" then the opportunities may be more limited and you may have to answer more directly to the graphic design & SEO parts of the customer base in order to build up clientele. (My experience with people who use the word "semantic" in their list of skills has been that graphic design & SEO aren't really as interesting for them :-)) Related question maybe--can you see yourself building on others' graphics-focused work to make that kind of thing more semantically acceptable? That could be an interesting position. Either way good luck to you.

TDvz 4y ago
Thank you for your feedback. I'm interested and know how to implement everything on the front-end - structure and content (HTML), presentation and positioning (CSS), and interactivity (JavaScript). The content would have to be provided by the client, but I can perfectly deal with the rest (if the client hasn't a designer, for instance). If the client provides designs and interaction guidelines, no problem at all, I know (or will learn) how to implement them - using semantically appropriate HTML code, custom CSS and JavaScript (JS). I really love a handcrafted package of HTML, CSS, and JS. That's what I would like to do, if there's demand - thence my question :).
- pbronez 4y ago
  That sounds viable to me. Basically a small web development agency. There are lots of basic websites out there. People want them to be easily indexed, easy to update. Thus the whole JAM stack thing and Wordpress dominance. One thing you might look at - promotional sub sites for e-commerce. There are e-retailers that have a main store implemented as a web app. Then the business people get some bright idea for a new promotion or product line or something. They need to whip up a mini site just for the project. It will live for maybe a couple months. They don’t want to take their core devs with it, so maybe you can step in.

TDvz 4y ago

Thank you for your feedback. I'm interested and know how to implement everything on the front-end - structure and content (HTML), presentation and positioning (CSS), and interactivity (JavaScript). The content would have to be provided by the client, but I can perfectly deal with the rest (if the client hasn't a designer, for instance). If the client provides designs and interaction guidelines, no problem at all, I know (or will learn) how to implement them - using semantically appropriate HTML code, custom CSS and JavaScript (JS). I really love a handcrafted package of HTML, CSS, and JS. That's what I would like to do, if there's demand - thence my question :).

pbronez 4y ago
That sounds viable to me. Basically a small web development agency. There are lots of basic websites out there. People want them to be easily indexed, easy to update. Thus the whole JAM stack thing and Wordpress dominance. One thing you might look at - promotional sub sites for e-commerce. There are e-retailers that have a main store implemented as a web app. Then the business people get some bright idea for a new promotion or product line or something. They need to whip up a mini site just for the project. It will live for maybe a couple months. They don’t want to take their core devs with it, so maybe you can step in.