Hi guys, I just gave my website a makeover! The last time I did it was in 2023, so a refresh was kinda overdue. Would love for you to take a peek at the new look 👉 https://citraayu.com/ Just to give some picture, I always create a backup everytime I did a makeover. You can see and compare the current look to its previous designs: https://2023.citraayu.com/ http://punchy.citraayu.com/ Let me know what you think—I’m always open to feedback!

Hi guys, Last month, I joined this group and made this post. Today, 23 days later, just the beginning of February 2025, I already made AUD 12,500 for the month (for two website projects. Note: I only offer timeline-based web design services, ranging from 3 days and 3-weeks for fully custom ones. These two projects will wrap up by the end of the month). I am proud of myself to be able to bounce back fast after a long break but to be honest I'm not surprised because actually this is my 4th time of doing the same thing--taking a long break after I made enough money to survive just enough for the year. A lil back story, I started doing web design in 2018, it was going really really well for me. And because I lived in Bali while making money in stronger currencies, I was living the dream and I saved a lot of money to live comfortably in Bali and traveling. Then my fiance got cancer and died in June 2020, just 2 weeks after my birthday. Two people died on that day, him and the person I used to be. Since then, I decided to not working and lived off my savings. I lost my passion for design and for success. I just stopped caring and stopped having dreams. I literally become a zombie (a goodlooking one, thank God). My savings allowed me to be able to not working and just doing whatever I felt like for over 2 years since he passed away (for example, I started become a stand up comedian, lol, what a twist!). I only started going back to work doing web design whenever I felt I needed some more money and worked for 2-4 months of the year and took the long hiatus again for the rest of the year. Which means whenever I needed to get back, I had to start finding new clients, pitching, etc. I always managed to get projects at my desired rates quite quickly. But since I was a zombie, I took it for granted. Whenever my business started to pick up, I took the long hiatus again and refused clients. Because I had no ambition anymore.

As Web Designers we need to have a website (I don't care what other people or gurus say - If a web designer doesn't have a website, then how'd you expect a client to trust that you can actually design and build a website). Let's see them in the comments 🔥

On Tuesday (sorry its been pushed as I want to add even more resources) I'm going to be releasing a Complete Step-By-Step Guide on how to Start a Web Design Business for free + 50 Page document. What we'll cover: 1.1 Agency vs Freelance 1.2 Niche Selection 1.3 Market Research 1.4 Competitor Research 1.5 Offer Creation 1.6 Service SOP/Strategy 1.7 Your Website 2.1 First 3 Clients 2.2 Outreach 2.3 Inbound Funnel 2.4 Partnerships 2.5 Paid Ads 3.1 Booking the Appointment 3.2 Sales Calls 4.1 Onboarding 4.2 Service Delivery Tell me in the comments which one of these sections you're most looking forward to and why! This has been in the making for the last 3 weeks and I can't tell you how much you'll learn with this!

Hi everyone, I'm Citra, a web designer based in between Australia and Bali. I've been doing web design since 2018 and been a digital nomad since then. It was going really well but then my fiance got cancer and passed away in 2020 and I lost my passion in almost everything so I took a few years off from web design and lived off my saving. Finally after 4 years of grief, I found my passion back though it means I'm restarting building my client base and income again. And I decided that if I want to grow, I need more than just freelancing, so I started my first digital product shop this year where I am selling Squarespace website templates. I also changed my offerings based on a timeline, 3 week website design. I hope that by joining this community, I can learn and scale up my business. I also manage a youtube channel (for Indonesians) where I share about how to start working freelance online in international market for Indonesian women because in my country, what I am doing is still considered not normal. It feels good to have my passion back, and I am excited! Hopefully it will go as successful or even bigger than the first time I did it! Here is my website: https://citraayu.com/ My website template shop: https://www.flyhighdesign.co/ If you'd like to connect on Instagram, please let me know, I'll follow y'all back! Cheers, Citra Ayu