How long does it take you to make a FS?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by tigermom

When I started out, someone told me it should only take 1 hour to make a FS, but I don't know, tends to take me a whole lot longer...

Well, if you're building plain old blah-blah shit sites, then an hour is about right. I've seen a couple of your sites on the board, I think, and, as I recall, you shoot for a more refined design. I also know that you are an SE person, so those elements are going to add to your build time as well. If you're quality-conscious, you have to expect your endeavers to require more time. When I started, it took me literally all day to build and submit a single site. I eventually knocked that down a couple of hours, but my sites, I must confess, were still not as nice as yours or many other builders out there. I still build free sites for others, on occasion, and the time it takes me to create a single non-graphic HTML template is still all over the place.

[Lemmy]

Depending on my level of inspiration, how much I recycle from other freesites, how many trips to the bathroom, trips to the kitchen to re-heat my coffee, cats that need petting etc. etc. and any number of unavoidable urgent distractions that require my immediate attention, I'd say anywhere from 1 hr to the whole day.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

Depending on my level of inspiration, how much I recycle from other freesites, how many trips to the bathroom, trips to the kitchen to re-heat my coffee, cats that need petting etc. etc. and any number of unavoidable urgent distractions that require my immediate attention, I'd say anywhere from 1 hr to the whole day.

LOL - yep, that's about right.

I build from the pictures up so I generally don't use templates, although I will use the same design concepts. If I end up doing a graphical title or something then it takes longer. Plus if you have to do a lot of work with the pics, etc etc...it's so hard to give a definitive time frame to build a good freesite.

Ponygirl

[ladydesigner]

With 4 kids under 8, one cat and a husband, it takes me all day to build & submit a free site. I used to be able to do it in a few hours but now I have to stop/start what I'm doing so much that I seem to never get stuff done. Plus I don't like using templates so most of my sites are built from scratch.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

With 4 kids under 8, one cat and a husband, it takes me all day to build & submit a free site.

holy crow - I'll give you a medal just for geting up in the morning, never mind getting freesites built

Ponygirl

[sue-fl]

Originally Posted by ladydesigner

With 4 kids under 8, one cat and a husband, it takes me all day to build & submit a free site. I used to be able to do it in a few hours but now I have to stop/start what I'm doing so much that I seem to never get stuff done. Plus I don't like using templates so most of my sites are built from scratch.

Wow 4 under 8, now that is a handful, oh the laundry must be mind blowing!

On freesites for me, about 2 hours on a good day, 3-5 days when I can't concentrate which is most of the time lately

[lorsha]

4 - 5 hours here. I know I make them nice & clean at least. Not sure how good otherwise, hehe.

Hubby and I will be shooting a crap load of content in the next couple of months, so will have a lot of new stuff to build around.

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by lorsha

4 - 5 hours here. I know I make them nice & clean at least. Not sure how good otherwise, hehe.

Hubby and I will be shooting a crap load of content in the next couple of months, so will have a lot of new stuff to build around.

Looking forward to seeing the new content

As to build times, I haven't done a free site in a while. But, used to take about 4 or 5 hours including submissions. The way I build free sites tends to take a bit longer as I mirror the entire site for each recip table, then change up the text on all the pages.

[japamor]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

Depending on my level of inspiration, how much I recycle from other freesites, how many trips to the bathroom, trips to the kitchen to re-heat my coffee, cats that need petting etc. etc. and any number of unavoidable urgent distractions that require my immediate attention, I'd say anywhere from 1 hr to the whole day.

I think Lemmy's given the definitive answer!

I can take anything from 1 hour to days if I start daydreaming. Also I find changing to a new niche is very time-consuming as it requires changing all the recips.