Is there call for small business web development still?

[TimDarracott]

5 Years ago i used to work for a small business who offered bespoke small to medium sized businesses web design and develoment solutions, i worked for the company for 3 years in that time we grew from two members of staff to 7 by the time i had left. Work was always around the corner and there wasn't a time were we werent busy.

I've dropped out of the web game over the last few years but still have the knowledge and eye to do it.

I'm just wondering if the market is still the same, are people still looking for websites designed by the one man band (so to speak). I always remember clients seemed to have a hell of alot of funding available to them from different organisations, we landed most of those contracts via the local chamber of commerce.

I guess i want to start using my skills to return a small amount of extra cash each month, would it be worth spending my time buying a domain developing a website to showcase my previous work and start looking for clients?

The difficult part i can see is the fact that i hold down a mon - fri 9 - 5 job, thus meeting with clients and being able to answer there questions during business hours is going to be impossible.

Any suggestions, or advice would be greatly appreciated.

I guess another avenue to explore would be picking up the odd bit of out sourcing from other web dev businesses, if any members need a hand with projects i'd be happy help. My background is PHP, MySQL. But i now work with MS SQL so i'm quite database savvy. I also work with CSS, etc and have an eye for design.