[quote name='haloman21']I remember reading a while back someone saying that he sold a web design for 600 bucks. Im wondering if there is a solid market in selling web designs so I could make some money stick it in my pay pal account and then buy a new graphics card off of new egg or something.[/quote]
Back in the day, yes, but that was before the internet bubble burst. At that time all you really had to have was a semi-professional attitude, the ability to stick to schedules, and the ability to make some nice looking sites in HTML (or DHTML or XML, if we're talking late 90's instead of mid-90's). If you could make a good site by using tables instead of frames you were pretty much golden to most people.
Then again, those days were different. Ad revenues were nuts, a teen could charge $80 an hour to create a full website (bonus points for using pre-made CGI scripts and Java Scripts to save time and yet add bells and whistles). Nowadays, I'm not sure of the rates and whatnot, but I'm fairly certain that what passed for "great" back then will even get you $10 total right now.
[quote name='haloman21']Also is making a web design/layout terribly hard? For example am i going to make a web design worth 600Bucks for 3 weeks or 3 days?[/quote]
If you've never dabbled in HTML before there are plenty of great old resources online but you have to do plenty of experimenting. You could just fake it with Dreamweaver but while WYSIWYGs ("What You See is What You Get" / Website-Making Programs) were taboo in the past it could be the same way now when it comes to functionality. Honestly, I doubt you'll make $600 in 3 weeks on websites alone. HTML is easy to learn but there are plenty of times where it can be a pain in the ass to get it to do what you want.
[quote name='haloman21']Because if it takes less then a week to make something worth a few hundred dollars I think doing that would be better then working at the gas station 20 minutes away from my house. Hell I doubt they are hiring and there is no way in hell that i am walking an hour and a half to get to my nearest target.[/quote]
Nah, you more than likely won't see that amount of cash for an effort like this. You could make personal websites for people, but that usually results in far less money and far more stipulations from people over negligible things ("I'm not going to pay you one cent until you add in these 57 links and a dancing baby!"). Business websites offer a lot more money but unless it's a start-up they're going to want a professional look, and that usually requires programming skills and some experience with Photoshop or some other image app.