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I think if you're going to pump and dump them you need to come up with more than one design. Seriously, seeing several sites with the exact same template and just a different topic is an automatic turn-off for me, and I assume others too.
 


Payton said:
I think if you're going to pump and dump them you need to come up with more than one design. Seriously, seeing several sites with the exact same template and just a different topic is an automatic turn-off for me, and I assume others too.
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Yes to me too. I don't like it cause i doesn't seem like there's been to much effeort into it, to make it a quality site. Therefore I take the content for granted.
 
The site itself can easily be done within a day, but content - let alone quality content - is an entirely different story.
 
Payton said:
I think if you're going to pump and dump them you need to come up with more than one design. Seriously, seeing several sites with the exact same template and just a different topic is an automatic turn-off for me, and I assume others too.
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I agree with you, but it doesn't really have to be like that if you play it smart - if the design is good looking and functional and your sites are linked & under the same major topic, for example, than it may also be perceived as branding and staying consistent.
 
peach said:
you can also do a very basic design that allows you to easily change the colors and throw around the whole look of the site
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just use a CSS stylesheet, and voila you can change the colors/images easily, creating a completely different design.
 
I built myself a CMS that lets me easily change the color themes. I also have it all through CMS and module based so I can add and remove certain modules on the main page, and change up the CSS quickly.

I agree that if youre pumping out the sites you should try to make them somewhat unique, but hand coding every single line on every new site doesn't make much sense to me.
 
a.titus1 said:
I built myself a CMS that lets me easily change the color themes. I also have it all through CMS and module based so I can add and remove certain modules on the main page, and change up the CSS quickly.

I agree that if youre pumping out the sites you should try to make them somewhat unique, but hand coding every single line on every new site doesn't make much sense to me.
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you actually make the cms itself?
 
Dave said:
just use a CSS stylesheet, and voila you can change the colors/images easily, creating a completely different design.
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Exactly. I didn't change much of my code apart from css for the last few sites, as I've built a template in such a way that it allows easy customization and it really saves me a lot of work and I don't have to worry about bugs, as it's already tried and tested.
 
donn said:
Use wordpress, and then put an article up per day, with 15 up before launch, than market away. Start one each day. Make millions. Write worthless book. Make billions. The rich get richer. Make trillions. It all seems so simple when you put it that way, right?
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If only it was that easy. But then, everone would be doing it. Or is that blogger?
 
NtodaS said:
you actually make the cms itself?
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Yep. Its by no means as advanced as the bigger open source ones, but thats where I found my advantage. The code is smaller, more efficient since I dont have overhead Im not using, and I know exactly what to change if I want a different look or different functionality.

And of course, the biggest reason, is that Im a developer at heart and enjoyed making it :)
 
We use our own custom CMS for all smaller site builds and clients. This gives us an out-of-the-box solution. The CSS then controls the rest of the sites layout and style.
 
I typically use css-driven sites. I use either my own or a free template. Going this route, you can take a css template page and create anything on topic restricted only by your different graphics and color palettes.

It probably takes me an hour to produce a boiler-plate (about, contact, index, etc) site. I also use php so my menu system and other "common areas" like the footer are "included" statements so if I need to make a change to the menu or left panel, whatever, I change it in only one file!
 
I've launched some sites within an hour or two. Others have took a lot of developing.

I think least one has ever took was three hours; which was an arcade site which I sold that day for over $600. So for those three hours I was earning $200/h. Not bad for a bit of coding.
 
I have always been quite fast, my biggest downfall is distractions - i get distracted easily and then i become unmotivated with the site i am working on so have to leave it for a while to get back into it.

The design process usually takes me the longest cos i am almost, always unhapy with the work I do so I do like 50 designs that are all rubbish.

Once I get going I can storm ahead. Does anybody else feel the tricky part is deciding the positioning of text and the typefaces etc to use? i can never find a suitable font that I think fits a design and doesnt ruin the flow of the page.
 
Depends on the site. It usally takes me a full day to get the layout designed and coded. The rest is all coding the databases and writing the scripts, then adding content. It all depends on how many different scripts it'll take and how much content. Could be from a couple days, to a couple months. But in the end, you're really never done.
 
kyleirwin said:
Depends on the site. It usally takes me a full day to get the layout designed and coded. The rest is all coding the databases and writing the scripts, then adding content. It all depends on how many different scripts it'll take and how much content. Could be from a couple days, to a couple months. But in the end, you're really never done.
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Yeah, a good point. Cumutively it adds up to a ton of time for each site, just not much for initial set-up.
 
ms15000 said:
i get distracted easily and then i become unmotivated with the site i am working on so have to leave it for a while to get back into it.
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Same here. The trouble is, I often come back to it just to realize I've lost the feeling I had when I started and need to spend some time to actually remember where exactly I was going with it :mad:
 
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