How long does it take to build your website?

[babyboy808]

This is for all the web designers out there.

How long does it usually take to build your website from start to finish?
Please give an an approx timeframe...

I usually spend 2 - 3weeks on a small - mid sized site consisting of about 50 - 70 pages. That is just the designing and programming. No S.E.O :cool:

[Tyler]

May I ask what the 50-70 pages are for? In my experience, unless the site is quite large, most sites contain maybe 2-3 pages... I mean there'd be other pages of course, but with the same template basically and just a title image changed usually...

I don't design anymore (I did once upon a time!) but it always depended on the site of course. For smaller sites, always with a unique style, it usually took me around a week to complete a site with graphics and HTML (I never did that CSS stuff... I'm too oldschool :P). For more graphic intensive designs like Movie-Vault.com it would take usually 10-14 days.

[babyboy808]

May I ask what the 50-70 pages are for?

Sure, For instance when i was givin' a project to do for a wedding stationary company, they had alot of inventory such as, DL envelopes, letterheads, invitation cards, scrolls etc... And it took quite a few pages to insert all of these into...

you desined Movie Valut, very nice design...

And regarding css. It makes life so much more easier for designing sites, I'm glad i learned myself a few years back.. So many hours saved :)

[Idle Play]

Hmmmm. I normally do sites quite quickly. I'm more of a quantity over quality type guy. Particular for AdSense sites.

I normally pay for the content / pay someone to get the content. I can do a good CSS layout in about 2 hours or so then I'd say about a day or two to write the queries and back end. Researching the competition and making my outputs differ / better takes the most time I'd say. All my off site SEO is handled by my link guys so for me personally there is only a couple of days work or so involved in putting a site up.

I tend to build my sites in a way that they self build as far as content goes and require little to no administration.

[kaizan]

Interesting question. Depends on the site. Personal projects are usually spur of the moment things, where i see an opportunity and pounce.

It can take little more than two hours for design/code and getting it live on a domain (my domain registrar is freeking quick).

Other projects can take weeks as they need a proper IA developed.

[Gareth]

No more than 2-3 days to be honest. But that's just a main page and subpage.

[Jeanette]

It would take me a couple of days if I didn't already work 9-5.

[Targowski]

Well it ultimately depends on the project scale, and what type of website it is.

For some of my previous and now ongoing websites, it has taken over a month or two. But for some much smaller websites, such as a recent one I made - http://www.soo.in - took a little over a day to complete entirely.

[Quicksilver]

Had no idea you designed movie vault, nice job. Since I lack knowledge in css or php at the moment I have to rely on outsourcing. Currently learning css from a book so I will no longer have to deal with freelancers.

[tucker]

It usually takes me 1 day to 2 weeks. It depends on how large the website is.

[farcaNnell]

I usually work on the design for 3-4 hours, and partner would usually take a few more hours to code, and implement scripts (if needed). All of this is ofcourse over a few days/weeks.