Sorry, I did miss the point made in your initial post. 😉 Back when I did have my own web design business I used to encourage those that wanted to do it themselves. More often than not they eventually became clients once they found out that they couldn't do what they wanted so easily. If they didn't become clients in some way they likely never were going to be clients. I think almost every 'service' based tarde/occupation is facing the same thing. If I need to fix some plumbing or fix my car I can simply go to Youtube. I don't though. I choose to pay the people that do it. But I'm rambling here ... Why should people pay us? I think the ones that are serious about their site do pay. The ones that don't are perhaps less knowledgeable in current trends, technology and likely aren't big Internet users in the first place. I think in a lot of cases the more help and resources available to the self designer group the more overwhelmed they get. Yes, there will be some people that successfully build their own sites. My wife for example with no web design experience has successfully built a couple sites in Weebly. Probably took her five times as long as it would have taken me but she was able to meet the goals of those websites. So I think if you can do it yourself these days, why not?
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