I am thinking about trying to get some work as a freelancer until I get my first full time job. I am thinking about smaller businesses who needs simple websites.
Any advice from anyone who did something similar? What should I look out for?

Make a contract, front payment, don’t let them make you work and pay on the end. Sometimes they lied and take it for free

@Joshbent maybe he can helps

@lagnoodle freelancing 101: https://devrant.com/rants/1435207/...

@JoshBent my biggest fear for example is that I promise the client the site will be finished in 2 weeks and it will be 4 weeks or stuff like that. I am a rookie when it comes to web development and I am clueless when it comes to CSS. The issue is that I don't think I have enough knowledge to take on a project with confidence. On the other hand I need the money to not go bankrupt.

@lagnoodle sorry to say, but it sounds like you shouldn't be doing this as a job then, because you'll just leave somebody with a very poor result, that he'll have to have redone later again because of it e.g. not properly scaling - it's simply not made for experimenting and for the money that people pay, they expect some results, you'll just blast your chance of ever working on upwork with poor reviews etc.

There's a lot of freelancing jobs, you could do scraping, data research, mailing people, virtual assistant etc. but if you can't do any of them, then you'll have to find some quick everybody-can-do job in real life.

@JoshBent I never had the issue that I was unable to do something, I just need time sometimes. Pretty much everything I do is new for me, but after that I don't forget it. That's my fear that I promise a site to be ready in 2 weeks and I need more time.

@lagnoodle "I am clueless when it comes to CSS" is what you said and also "everything is new" falls directly with what I said

freelancing isn't imho a good place to experiment or learn, usually when you start freelancing you're at least able to make your own side projects look and work in a certain turnaround time

you sound like you're just learning it all, so even if you do spend more time on doing something, you don't have the experience to have the best way of doing something, no experience on what not to do etc.

Not trying to discourage you, but with all you said, it's best you consider something else, until you've developed yourself into a more experienced webdev, to save yourself and clients trouble.