Yes absolutely. Web Designers are in high demand. Even if you do not know how to write HTML and use editors or templates, there is a target audience you can market to based on your skill sets.

The first thing you have to do is get a few clients, play salesman and work your way through the yellow pages finding companies who do not have websites. It helps if you target businesses who are in an industry you understand.

Do a great job !!!! Word of mouth and references earn you new clients.
It may take you 8 hours of calling businesses offering your services before you pick up a client, but it is worth it.

Currently I do no marketing or advertising. I call businesses in the industries I know. My sales skills have gotten better through practice and I am able to pick up a new client every day that I do sales. It takes me between one and three weeks to build a website solo, and I make between 2 and 4 thousand dollars per site. I work hard and produce great products so a lot of my clients refer their business contacts to me.

The job of freelance web designer is diverse and requires people skills, IT knowledge, artistic talent, and determination. It helps if you are a damn good detective as well.

The best part of working freelance is that every time you set out to do something you get better at it. So accumulate the experience and work hard to make your clients happy and before long you will be successful.

I make 8k per month working about 60 hours a week, only 20 of that is actually building websites. I could be making more; but I have a bad habit of undercharging people.