How long does it take you to make a FS?

[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.

[QuickDraw]

Originally Posted by MrYum

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.

Do you find more of your pages indexed by se's using that method? I've thought about it in the past, but always figured it was more trouble then it was worth.. Do you use unique directory names too? I think I might give that a try on my next go 'round.

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by QuickDraw

Do you find more of your pages indexed by se's using that method? I've thought about it in the past, but always figured it was more trouble then it was worth.. Do you use unique directory names too? I think I might give that a try on my next go 'round.

I like to change up text with mirrors too, when I have the time for it. Although, I've noticed that google and yahoo seem to favor unique title tags more than anything else when it comes to making variance on mirrors.

But it doesn't take too long to swap out a few choice words here and there, and tweak your file names. If you can say the exact same thing but use a different words to do it then it's still unique.

[MrYum]

Originally Posted by QuickDraw

Do you find more of your pages indexed by se's using that method? I've thought about it in the past, but always figured it was more trouble then it was worth.. Do you use unique directory names too? I think I might give that a try on my next go 'round.

The Hippy is on the right track

I use unique directories and altered keyterms to adjust to the directory names. Also, altered metas and other text on each version of the site to keep them completely unique. Since I do 3 mirrors of each site, I end up with 3 entirely unique sites wrapped around the same set of pictures.

That said, when I first started doing them that way...yes, google seemed to like it. Over time however, that fickle beast has dropped a LOT of the pages. Yahoo still has most of them...MSN has more than Google, but far less than Yahoo.

Worth the extra time??? Honestly, that's a toss up