Basic HTML and CSS project ideas?

Hi, Geoffrey. I can't seem to comment or your comment, but hopefully you're subscribed to this thread (which I'm sorry we're kind of hijacking OP). I did far more selling than I did buying on fiverr, but, from my experience, the simplistic answer to your question is 'Yes, all of the above'.

There are people that i'm sure will create a full, basic, functional website for $5. They tend to be people from certain countries in Asia where $5 isn't a bad pay for a few hours work. The quality of work is mixed and people comment that communication is sometimes difficult and extra money needed to be paid for modifications etc. There are also many, many people who do the old bait and switch. They'll advertise "a fully functional multi-page website", but you only get a landing page for $5 and you need to purchase extra 'gigs' to get anything close to what you want. Other misrepresentations include people who will make you something with photoshop and stick a few slices in it. Lot's of people who work solely with wordpress or wix.com. It's an entire spectrum of people and services.

Me personally, I made it very clear that I will make a fully functional, basic, bespoke, multi-page html/css website that will be ready for hosting. I also made it clear that I wasn't in it for the money and just wanted to practice my new skills and grow my portfolio. I excluded any kind of JS/JQ/Animation/wordpress etc etc. (mostly because I don't know how...yet). I set my delivery time right up to 20 days and worked on projects after work in my spare time. It was something that was a good fit for me at the time for the reasons I stated in my previous comment. Considering all the restrictions I put in place, I had an overwhelming response. So much so, I switched it off a month or so later. The project work was starting to pile up and get in the way of me studying here and that was counter-constructive. I would spend hours trying to solve a problem by looking at related stack-overflow articles, getting confused, eventually getting it fixed and then go back to Treehouse.....and the very next lesson was a far quicker and easier way to solve the issue I was having. Typical.

So there's my thoughts on it. I may activate it again at some point to get my hands into some real design work and to grow my portfolio, but for now I'm focused on learning new skills.

The other thing to keep in mind if you're considering doing this is something my Dad said to me. "Work for full price, or for free, but never for cheap." People will want the moon on a stick because they're "paying you"...but here in Norway a pint of beer costs $15, so....no...not really getting paid.

Everyone I dealt with had a logo and company colours already. Some but not all had images and copy, so for the ones that didn't, I just sent the project with lorem ipsum and stock images. They were more than happy with that.

Maybe you should check around you if someone needs a website, that could be cool to work on a website that's really going to be used later, and you'll have probably more motivation as well no ? Perhaps your personal/portfolio website ?

I'm making a static (CSS/HTML) website for my dad right now, specifically for one of his start-up companies. Reach out to your family/friends to see if they want you to create a website for them. Perhaps one of them has a job that they do on the side, such as a lawn-mowing gig or cleaning service, and would like a website to put their name out there; static websites would be a great way to market them.