http://www.websitewebdesign.co.nz/web-design/graphic-designer/ For first time website owners, often the two skills are perceived as one and the same. Especially if your first site is a 5 to 10 page package deal, brochure site. A brochure site does not aim to make you money. It aims only to pass your message on. When you want your website to make money for your business then you start becoming aware that there are another twelve players on the website designer team who are needed to make your goal work. Then you begin to understand that a graphic designer does a smaller part than you may realise. And that the graphic designer part of the cost may be a minority one.