Experiance

#1 The best thing todo in my opinion is to make examples, make a portfolio of your designs and work, or creat some.

As far as looking for work goes, look around small business's in your area see if they have websites if they dont offer your services. :)

Munkey

#2 Develop a portfolio. Find sites that you think you could do better and give it a shot. Think about the sites you visit on a daily basis, figure out what about them works for you as a user, and what doesn't, and develop mock-ups that fix the problems.

Then you can just point prospective clients to your portfolio.

EDIT: a day late and a dollar short, I see :)

#3 On and off for 3 years with nothing to show? To me, that's the same as not doing anything. Why would any want you to work on their projects?

My recommendation would be to produce some sample sites to showcase what you can do. It doesn't matter if the sites are "real" or not. Just make up the content and create the work. Once you can prove that you can do the work, you might start getting more people interested in using your skills.

#4 Yes, everyone here is right.

But moreover, BELIEVE IN YOUR SKILL!
If you don't think you can make something yourself or sounds weak it will shows and people will be afraid, they want to be sure the job will be done, and well done!

Also, yes it's scary to have nothing to show in 3 years! In 3 years with only one website per month you could have done 36 websites :-D

Don't give up, never! Good luck and keep us posted about your progress.

#5 Cheers for the replies guys
and danny i see what your saying it does seem stupid that over the past 3 years i have nothing to show its just a few months ago my hd became currupt and lost a load of data concerning web designs and sketchs..ect. ever since then ive kinda lost a bit of faith in my skills.

-Sey-

#6 I play cs:s a lot and know some clans on there. They want me to make em the basic design for a site for them. ^^ wooo some work.