Greetings, i seek for advice.

It's easy enough to make a living doing web development, but you have to have more than one client. Usually every year I will wind up with someone who doesn't pay, but you can write that off as bad debt on your income taxes.

If you're in real bad shape, the first thing you need is a job. Do the business on the side. When it gets to the point where your job is interfering with your business, then you need to hire a couple of people part-time. You can give these folks some of the work so that you have the time to work at your job, and then work on your business. After a year or so, when you have consistently made more money working online than off-line, you can quit the job.

Note in the above paragraph I said work "on" your business, not "in" your business. There is a difference. Yes, there are some jobs you will have to do, but try and give most of it to the guys you hire to help you out. For example, you might build the template add the forms and setup the ecommerce.... get them to add the content and stuff that takes more time. Your primary job should be attaining and building relationships with potential long-term clients.

What kind of clients do you want?

First of all, they must be people who are able to pay for your services. But you don't want people who put up a website and then never do anything with it. You want clients whose websites are a work in progress -- they are always adding stuff, building other websites, etc...

You don't want to take on real big jobs. Let companies who have teams of developers handle those projects. You want a number of clients who send steady work so that you can make the same amount of money as if you had taken that big job. This way, if one of them goes belly-up, it doesn't matter; it's only a small percentage of your income. And you know you can pick up another client next month to replace the one that stiffed you.

Also by taking on a number of smaller clients who send steady work, you don't have to worry about what you're going to do next -- if you had of taken on the big job, and put all of your time and resources into it, then when that job is complete, you're out of work. Your don't want that.

Ask clients you're happy with for referrals.

Best Regards,
Steve MacLellan

Well, first thing is to eliminate distractions!
Decide which way you want to go(I'd recommend staying with Freelancing as you can earn really quick there)
To find clients, join just one(helps to stay focused) job site like oDesk.com. If you can show good examples, you will surely get work there.
Also, work offline for some time. You can do some part-time job. And yes, you can also seek help from friends!

Best of luck! May God help you.

Leverage on your graphical freelancer work and skill in CSS coding by offering your services to others.. Try to offer your services in many freelancing sites.. You can find them with just one Google Search.. Try Odesk for one..

You can outsource your talents on sites like guru.com. Money is put in escrow to protect both parties.

You might also try teaming up someone who possesses the skills you lack so you have a complete package to offer to a client. Do you have a website portfolio yet? Get a free website like weebly.com or a wordpress blog to showcase your work.

I wish you all the best. Please keep us posted on your progress.

T