i wondered about how long most of you actually spend time working on a layout.

opinion:

it might seem 'wow, im good' making like a bunch of layouts a day but spending 1 hour of cropping out some image and brushing it here and there isn't pratical at all. i spend about 4 - 7 days on plain xanga layouts and from anything of 2 weeks to a few months on something i really decide to work on (which is praticly all).....

so vote and blabber away......

-Nay

Nay... you're such a bitter artist =]
Can't blame you though, I know.

Not only does it take long to make the graphics.. getting the coding right is a bitch too. Hey do you handcode?

Agh I chose the wrong thing =_=
I say 4-7 days.

1-3 hrs.....sometimes at least.....sometimes it can take about a day if its really tough or something......and it only takes that long cus of very small errors that u dont find till an hour after u look. lol

1-3 hrs.

1-3 hours.. Usually, I just change the color scheme.. I don't really like spending a whole lot of time one cause you'll eventually get tired of the layout.. Am I right?!

lol nas, kill me =P.....

yeah, i handcode everything. photoshop's generated html is just eyeblinding. html in all caps, width="" attributes.......it's unimaginable *shudders*....

i stick to web standards to hand code in pure xhtml and css. meaning no touchie tables....bring it on div(s).

'eventually' you would - even your best girlfriend you got tierd of her 'eventually' aigh? ;) but the work you put into is worth so much.......[pause].........you'll see what i mean soon enough.....

-Nay

a few hours. maybe 4 for layouts. really can't spend that much time if you still have school

it takes me only 1 - 3 hours to first release the layout, and then every couple of days when i get bored, i'll look at it and get an idea here or there and tweak little things. that usually lasts a couple of weeks though before i end up changing it up again.

1-2 days to actually make it and then find codes for it to make it all nice and such..

i work on it a lil bit here and there...i just do it when i feel like it

It takes me about a week to make MY layouts. Meaning my own graphics. My own images, et al. I usually don't use them for my xanga, but in my other websites.

For xanga, it takes me an hour or less since I'll usually use premade images/graphics [with permission and credit of course.. most people I ask are usually pretty generous and helpful] and coding is pretty simple with all the resources here. If I get real lazy I'll go to daydreamgraphics and just tweak their layouts for xanga. School is my top priority so designing isn't that important right now [AP clases bite]. Luckily summer is coming along

basically it. ^^

takes me 4-7 days caz i make a bunch of layouts and i chose the one i like the best.

Just an hour or 2 hours. depends on wat i'm doing.


-¥

1-3 3 hours for me usually but if i was really lazy when i started this or if i was doing something really completcated then it will take my up to 4 days.

haha! I thought.. hey cool.. PS can generate HTML! I thought I could just edit it here and there.. but when I saw what it put out I was like ...nevermind

lol funny hehes I spend half an hour on designing.. cause I'mr eally picky.. ANd I spent like about 45 minutes looking for codes to steal -- j/k most of it I type, but some i had to look for it.. Xanga's sort of confusing, no?

makin layouts BURNS MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

damn...

WE HAVE NO LIVES MAKING XANGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i can sometimes work on a simple layout for a long time because i get artists block or lost of inspiration and the coding takes forever and if i dont like what i made because its too simple and plain ugly i change in less than a week . . . yeah im one of those xanga wh0resss!! ( well used to be )

depending on the complexity (sp) i usually spend 1-3 hours or a lil more....

I'd say about 1-3 hours of actual work. Most of the time I spend time slacking off and wondering. Including the ponderingness, I'd say somewhere around 6-7 hours. Of course my layouts generally last for less than two weeks. Unless I'm too lazy to think of things.

^_^ 4-7 days cause i gots school and fanfix and crap to do. especially wen i have to type up essays and crap... annoys the sh!t owtta me -_-x wells anyhoos yea. and it takes me long making imgs on photoshop and stuff so -_-x ahhaha especially wen SOMEONE REQUESTS SOMETHING AND WONT SHUT UP AND WAIT PATIENTLY AND GIVE YOU TIME. THEY JUST KEPP IMING YOU EVERY FARIKKEN HOUR TO SEE IF UR DONE, AND IT WASTES UR TIME AND THEIR POSSIBLITIES OF GETTING IT EARLIER!

about 5-7 hours...9/10 of that time is slacking off and chatting, so in reality, about 20-30 minutes

lolz 1 - 3 hours

yeah i voted.. it takes me bout 5-7 hours cus i always need an idea.. eh but I dont think it comes out too great :\ but I dont sit in front of the computer for about half the day, I probably do something else and get a lightbulb idea i also procrasinate or i have hw or i'm just talking on the phone/chatting on aim with somebody.. heh or watching tv =P yeah I do a lot of other things

5 min!!! HAHAHA! I AM THE GREATEST! HAHAHAHAHA! LOL, just kidding, I wouldd say 1-2 hours, but it also depends on the coding, that can take me up to a week, if i am feeling lazy.... But crap, Nay, you designs look so good, but when you had told me how you made those 2 layouts, you make it seem easy!

laziness is the least thing to have in design.........and i have a whole lot of it - heh. those steps i told you were the steps that actually took place, im sure you didn't want to know the much much of ctrl + alt + z that too place. you could say i divide one design into many stages. after every stage, relook, bad? then undo and try a different technique, or move the previously done effect around the place to see where it actually looks good. all that combined took me much longer...

-Nay

nay is my role model! i swear he's one of the best webdesigners ive met yet. Oh yeah, nay, I tried that lil technique you told me how to do on your site, I messed up a lil bit, but it kinda looks identical. accept the colors

lol, so called fast reply, i'm about 12 hours after you posted. hehehe...

you could upload it somewhere, i'll take a look. if you do need some hosting, just to develop some skills, i can host you on my server.

eh, people's been crawling up my back questioning me on my work, working on something really with a bang

-Nay

i spend about 1-3 hours a day fixing and trying to enhance my Xanga page.

i don't do hand coding, cause I am SOOOOo beginer like. The only thing I know is center, color, Bold, Italic, ect. The SO basic html.

hmmm... my website layouts take about 2 weeks to finish designing and coding. it takes me to conceptualize an idea and then create it. and i'm a bit of a perfectionist, so i spend a lot of time adding finishing touches to the design, and the code.

nay and nas, two really good designers. i think i'm going to change my name to something na* so that i can be good too!

i chose 1 day, thinking on what i'm doing the skin on takes a while, then it's photoshop and coding, bugging people when my code doesn't work the way it's supposed to etc.

a simple and qualities layout 1-2 days

if a fancy and cool layout i dunno 5 days or moree

one things for sure, it's longer than it probably should be... lol

I usually spend about 5-7 hours on a layout...well that's with making the graphics too. Thank God for Dreamweaver, or I'd probably still be makin my first skin

nay and nas......er........nav? something in the middle ;)

though, you might need a reason too.......see, my real name is nay and nas......well, that's just nastastic....so....no problem here

:lol:

-Nay

took me 1-3 hours to make this one XANGA

1-3

i usually only spend bout 5 hrs working on a layout. but sometimes more depending on what i in it want, and lookin for the codes i need

it usually depends on how i feel when im start and im not the kind of person who sits and plays with photoshop all night so it takes a few days for me

I have no clue how to make layout.

wow some people spend a lonq time on layouts mine i usually spend 1-3 hours on them

5 hours on my current one.
I had to eat an everything. Haha.

- Chinkieeyedpnoi

I usually spend an hour or soo or when i'm really into it i usually spend more but its mostly to have a unify theme in my xanga lol My Xanga

lol.. it takes me about 1-3 er 4 hours.. my layouts arent even that great. its just my photoshop or paint shop pro keeps screwing up on me. lol my layouts are simple and plain and stuff. :-D lol.

it really depends, if its someting new im trying to learn, 7+ hours(1 every night) but if i no what i doing maybe 4 hrs. i always need a good idea