Do you design your own layout?

@jammed (153)
Philippines
January 25, 2007 9:37am CST
A site's layout is one of the attractants for visitors, so sometimes there is a need to make your layout as attractive as possible. Do you design your own layout or just use pre-designed templates? In my case, my sites are all powered by WordPress. I was so interested to web design that I attempted to design some themes, including my sites' layout.
10 responses
@eiencafe (155)
• Italy
27 May 07
Yep, I design my own layout in my free time, it's not that difficult and sometimes easy layouts are better than complicated (well in my opinion of course!)
6 Feb 07
Could think of a better way to spend my free time, i design my own layouts. I say get motivated, get inspired and get coding. Good look with your project
@dihearted (2688)
• India
6 Feb 07
i design my own layout .. but i m not too good at it....
@zeloguy (4911)
• United States
29 Jan 07
As a SEO (search engine optimizationalist) I tell my clients to never go with a 'template' but rather go with a design that is both attractive and is suited for upgradability, aethetics, and SEO.
@totalguy (563)
2 Feb 07
i have always designed my own layouts as templates do not always fit the content of my websites. i do however look at templates to get idea's from them it is nice to combine different idea's from different templates to make your own layout atleast then you know your content will fit with your layout.
@w32worm (287)
• India
30 Jan 07
no wel i download free template n just edit it bcoz designing ur own layout is time consuming. thx. Good day!
• India
25 Jan 07
yeah i design myself ! i became expert now ! i designed many layouts for companies , friends and etc !
@tombol (152)
• Indonesia
28 Jan 07
For website I usually design it myself but for wordpress blog I'm using free theme. Just edit several line here and there, change some color, etc.
• India
28 Jan 07
I do design layout's on my own and at-times - very rarely thou' i use a tool or 2 for the same... CHEERS!!!! as the workload gets more and more - so I use - @ tms - tools... ... but I njoy!!! designing them myself... CHEERS!!!!
• United States
28 Jan 07
I always tend to make my own layouts for a website because it's something I really enjoy, first of all. It takes a lot of time, usually, to make a full layout. The longest I've ever spent on one was two days while I was learning how to implement javascript and image mapping. It's a fun thing to do, but very time consuming. Besides, the pre-designed templates for things usually are not to my tastes at all.