Ready To Leave The 9-5?
Become a freelance website designer in your own time, and at your own pace.
Our CPD Certified course will teach you the essential web development and freelancing skills required to kick start your new career in tech!
You don’t need any prior tech experience, our coursework and coaching will teach you everything you need to start making money online.
Study In Your Own Time
Our Flexi Freelancer course is designed to help you start your career in tech on your own terms. With flexible start dates, launch dates, on-demand support and anytime coaching – you can fit your learning around your life.
Flexi Freelancer gives you:
- Access to our Freelance Bootcamp coursework (18 modules and over 100 lessons, packed with knowledge!)
- Four one hour 1:1 coaching sessions with Steph or Kristina (this can be on tech or freelancing skills!)
- Access to the Flexi Freelancer Community Slack (meet other flexi students on the same journey!)
- Access to our tech support group (get unstuck and find the answers to simple questions any time you need help)
- Access to our website review inbox (submit your site for feedback to see if you’re on the right track)
Joining Flexi Freelancer will give you the freedom to fit your studies into your life. No matter how busy your work or family life gets, you still have the opportunity to make a change and work for yourself!
Launch When You Want
With Flexi Freelancer, you are no longer limited to a strict launch schedule. Instead you can choose from any one one of our 2023 launch dates, allowing you to launch when you are ready.
- Sign up
- Get access to the coursework and start working on your site
- When you feel ready, choose a launch date that works for you
- 2 weeks before the launch date, submit your site for a ‘Readiness Review’ by the coaches, to determine if you are ready to launch
- The week before launch, come to our ‘pre-launch’ huddles to help you plan for your launch and social media presence
- 5 Days before the launch, join a Launch Day slack group, to build excitement with the group of developers that you will be launching with!
- On Launch Day, get your site and your social media launched to over 80k followers on Instagram
You can choose your launch date anytime, and you can swap to a different launch date if your circumstances change.
What Will You Learn?
Our Freelancer Bootcamp teaches you the skills to become a kick ass, highly skilled, highly paid, freelance web developer. We take you from ‘what the heck is HTML’ to launching your first website and working with clients. The course has 10 modules, and over 130 lessons which teach you everything you need to create and launch your first high-spec website.
Our lessons cover:
- Web design basics – The architecture of a self-hosted website
- WordPress – In-depth training on how to use WordPress.org
- Design – how to create a great colour palette and look for your website
- UX – design a website that users love!
- Functionality – learn how to add a booking calendar, shop, membership area and online courses to your websites
- Business Setup – learn how to set up and register your business
- Freelancer Basics – how to communicate well with your clients
- Finding Clients – how to find your dream client and wow them with an incredible pitch
- Pricing your projects – learn the market rate for your skills, and how to price your projects fairly
- Advanced Freelancer Skills – our ‘Freelancer Formula’ will teach you how to land dream, high paying clients and build long lasting relationships with them
- Freelancer Marketing Skills – learn how to market yourself on social media, to draw in new clients and establish yourself in the market
You will leave our comprehensive and in-depth course with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to begin working with high-paying clients from day one.
Why Choose The Freelancer Bootcamp?
Whether you choose our Flexi Freelancer, or the Structured Freelancer Bootcamp, you will leave the course with more than just tech skills. You will leave our courses with the confidence and skills to work with clients, part of a community of freelancers who support you, and lifelong support from us to help you in each phase of your career.
Being a freelance web designer is so much more than making nice websites. It’s about building a marketable brand, understanding the needs of your clients, creating websites that make an impact, and being able to deliver a higher quality product than others in your field. The Freelancer Bootcamp doesn’t just create web designers, it creates the best web designers.
FAQ
Our Freelancer Bootcamp teaches you the skills to become a kick ass, highly skilled, highly paid, freelance web developer. We take you from ‘what the heck is HTML’ to launching your first website and working with clients. The course has 10 modules, and over 130 lessons which teach you everything you need to create and launch your first high-spec website.
You can start the coursework right away, and work through the coursework in your own time. Alternatively, you can wait as long as you need to start!
You will need a laptop or desktop computer running Windows, MacOS or Linux. A tablet, phone or netbook will not enable you to complete all the tasks on the course.
On the course you will build your own personal portfolio or client website. There are costs associated with building a site which are not covered in the course fee – as these are variable costs depending on what you build. The costs should be billed to your client if you are building a client website, you can advise your client of this before they agree.
- Domain cost: You will need to buy a domain name. These cost anything from €0.99 per year, the cost really just depends on how in-demand the domain name is. To estimate this cost, go to godaddy.com and search for some domain names you are considering for your site (stephwebdesign.com etc).
- Hosting cost: Websites need to be hosted, and there is an annual fee for this. We recommend two options of hosting in the coursework, which we have vetted. These are Hostinger which is €29 per year, and Siteground which is €79 per year.
- Theme: You may opt to buy a theme on the course. This cost is optional, and you will be given free and paid options to choose from which we have checked and vetted. If you buy a theme, the cost is between 29 and €60. This is a lifetime cost, not an annual cost.
If you are working with a client, you can let them know in advance that they would need to pay for these costs. You may also choose to charge your client for completing their website on the course. If so, the normal amount would be €500 on the course – payable when the website is delivered at the end of the course.
I am very please to say that both the Freelancer and Entrepreneur courses are now accredited by the CPD Certification service. You can view the membership details and certification details in the gallery at the top of the page.
When you complete the course, you will be sent a certificate of completion directly from CPD with your name & optionally your company name in it. If you will be using your web design skills to work for your company, it’s possible that your company will pay in full or part for your place on the course.
You have two options for the website you will create on the course.
- You can create a personal website, to advertise your freelance development skills to potential clients. If you have other skills & experience you can market these on the website too.
- You can create a website for a client. Some previous students posted on their social media looking for clients, and others created websites for their partner or family members businesses.
If you create a website for yourself, you will be able to use that as a way to market yourself. If you create a website for a client, you will gain experience of working with a client which will be very helpful.
- The course will teach you how to build self-hosted WordPress websites from scratch.
- It will teach you how to find clients, pitch for work, gather client requirements, and set your pricing.
- You will be given a basic introduction to four key web development languages: HTML, CSS, JavaScript & PHP and how these can be used to customise your website.