Thinking about doing this for profit

considering building sites from paying customers

[KaseyinTX]

Hello, I've been reading this board like crazy (it's addictive) and I enjoy hearing everyone's thoughts.

Here's my story, I have a M.Ed. in Instructional Technology (basically integrating computers into the classroom). All of the pages I do are done in Dreamweaver and I don't know too much about coding. I have had a personal site for years, I am in charge of our school's site, and I have built a few more for friends small companies. There have been people that asked my friends who built their site and asked if I would do one for them. I'm considering doing this on the side but don't want to get into something that's over my head. I never thought I could do anything like charge for my work but there are not many companies near me that do web design and the ones that I've found charge a small fortune for what seems to me to be average looking sites.
I'm doing my research and would love to hear some opinions.

[PumpkinHead]

All depends on which you enjoy more, most web developers start out by maintaining a few peoples sites (me included).

[KaseyinTX]

When you maintain someone's site do you just keep it up and running rather than build it from scratch?