Can I realistically get a web design job based off of my current experience?

Please take a look at my portfolio and resume and gauge whether or not I could get hired at a web design firm:





http://hirejaggers.com





What can I do to make my website more hireable?





I am still learning flash, JavaScript, and CGI scripting...but are these ABSOLUTELY necessary to get hired?





Please only serious critiques.

Can I realistically get a web design job based off of my current experience?
You can get whatever work your social network, drive and attitude allow you to get. Seriously, far more important than your skills are the people you know and your reputation with them, plus your attitude and drive about doing good work and keeping customers happy.





http://www.dougv.com/blog/2007/05/26/the...





That said, your work is on the lower end aesthetically, your site provides little to no useful information that would help a relative stranger evaluate your skills or business (no references, no demos, etc.). The fact that it is written in HTML 4.01 is of concern, as that is a legacy language; that it does not pass validation at validator.w3.org, in spite of being HTML 4.01 Transitional, is more cause for concern.





Your demo site fortunately passes validation, but it's not very aesthetic.





Without some knowledge of JavaScript / DOM manipulation, server-side scripting languages and database basics, your work opportunities will be severely limited and it will be quite difficult to talk people into taking you on, even in limited roles, since your artistic ability is also clearly limited.
Reply:I thought your website is very good.





There are two qualifications for getting hired to do website design.





Not sure if you are looking to do the graphic design for websites or the logistical design. Two completely different disciplines.





1. Almost all employers make a hiring judgement based on your portfolio of 'completed for hire' website designs. The more and varied your portfolio is, the better, with one caveat. Make sure everything you show is professional looking.





2. Networking is better than experience. The more people you know in places that you would like to work, the better your chance of getting hired there.





These hold true for either discipline.





Good luck