how long do you spend on your layouts?, state some reasons too.... |
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 Feb 12 2004, 08:05 AM
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Senior Member  Group: Member Posts: 67 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,477  |
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 |
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Feb 12 2004, 08:17 PM
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 samurai champloo! Group: Member Posts: 748 Joined: Dec 2003 Member No: 2 |
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? |
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Feb 12 2004, 08:18 PM
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samurai champloo! Group: Member Posts: 748 Joined: Dec 2003 Member No: 2 |
Agh I chose the wrong thing =_=
I say 4-7 days. |
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Feb 12 2004, 10:33 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 55 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,954 |
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
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Feb 12 2004, 10:37 PM
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1-3 hrs.
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Feb 13 2004, 02:38 AM
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 i will be LOVED, some day. Group: Member Posts: 238 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 263 |
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?!
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Feb 13 2004, 06:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 67 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 2,477 |
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 |
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Feb 13 2004, 12:46 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 507 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 832 |
a few hours. maybe 4 for layouts. really can't spend that much time if you still have school
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Feb 13 2004, 12:52 PM
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 This is the part where you run away... Group: Member Posts: 103 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 647 |
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.
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Feb 13 2004, 03:48 PM
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 <3<3<3<3 Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,177 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,779 |
1-2 days to actually make it and then find codes for it to make it all nice and such..
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Feb 13 2004, 07:28 PM
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 kill is love... Group: Member Posts: 395 Joined: Dec 2003 Member No: 84 |
i work on it a lil bit here and there...i just do it when i feel like it
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Feb 13 2004, 08:18 PM
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Baka elite Group: Member Posts: 124 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,437 |
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. ^^ |
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Feb 13 2004, 11:17 PM
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 ksjchskjdahfkja Group: Member Posts: 958 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,175 |
takes me 4-7 days caz i make a bunch of layouts and i chose the one i like the best.
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Feb 13 2004, 11:19 PM
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 banned Group: Member Posts: 1,589 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,768 |
Just an hour or 2 hours. depends on wat i'm doing.
-¥ 
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Feb 13 2004, 11:54 PM
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 mmm... coffee ;] Group: Member Posts: 65 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,845 |
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.
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Feb 14 2004, 12:49 AM
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samurai champloo! Group: Member Posts: 748 Joined: Dec 2003 Member No: 2 |
QUOTE(Nay @ Feb 13 2004, 6:43 AM) 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 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 
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Feb 14 2004, 04:07 PM
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 durian Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 13,124 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,860 |
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?
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Feb 14 2004, 04:20 PM
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questions make me blue. Group: Member Posts: 2,608 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,796 |
 makin layouts BURNS MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! damn... WE HAVE NO LIVES MAKING XANGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Feb 14 2004, 05:42 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 302 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,064 |
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 )
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Feb 16 2004, 08:28 AM
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Lord Of the Onion Rings Group: Member Posts: 77 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 2,288 |
depending on the complexity (sp) i usually spend 1-3 hours or a lil more....
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Feb 16 2004, 02:56 PM
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 one bullet Group: Member Posts: 1 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,804 |
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.
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Feb 16 2004, 03:04 PM
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 advanced newbie... S2 Group: Member Posts: 3,504 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 752 |
^_^ 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!
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Feb 16 2004, 03:11 PM
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 original member. Group: Official Member Posts: 4,825 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,460 |
about 5-7 hours...9/10 of that time is slacking off and chatting, so in reality, about 20-30 minutes
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Feb 16 2004, 04:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 946 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 603 |
 lolz 1 - 3 hours 
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Feb 16 2004, 04:30 PM
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Newbie Group: Member Posts: 6 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 4,130 |
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 
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