How hard is to make a web template?I know it's different for everyone,but I just wanted to know how long does it take to make one web template?
Depends on what you use to make it and how complex do you want it to be. With paid wordpress and catalyst its not really hard at all.
A home page template will take about 1 - 2 days. Until you master it a 6 page web template may take a couple of days. But first, have a closer look at the templates available in leading web template providers. Here are few of them. www.dreamtemplate.com www.templatesbox.com www.americantemplates.com www.4templates.com www.templaterover.com www.templateworld.com www.allwebcodesign.com www.themeforest.com All of these sites provide unique content.
Its depends on requirement which kind of template do you want to design, template design require sound knowledge of HTML, and your template must be unique if you want to sale it, and most important thing is browser compatible.
It's up to you. If you have a lot of knowledge and experience then it will take too short time like 1 -10 hours. But if you have not it then...... Just try to increase your creativity,it is essential for such kinds of job.
Depends on what you mean by template -- though if you're talking about sleazing out a pretty picture, slicing it up and shoe-horning content into it... well, it's shocking how long it takes the photoshop jockey dicking around drawing said pretty picture takes only to end up with something that's an accessibility train wreck. Which is why I do NOT advocate the use of off the shelf templates, and do NOT advocate drawing some goof assed picture of a website before you have semantic markup of content or a reasonable facsimile. First ask yourself what you want on the page, put that together as plain text in a logical order...(if need be, use placeholder text) then add semantic markup to that... Said markup should say what things are, NOT what they are going to look like. Presentation is CSS' job, and has no malfing business in the HTML. You then bend that markup to your will with CSS to make your layouts -- yes, that's plural. Semi fluid for screen, responsive with media queries for screen, and don't forget print (though I often feed print no CSS, since the semantic markup's defaults often looks best). You may have to add a couple of DIV or SPAN sandbags/wrappers as presentational hooks, but those should be kept to a minumum. Then and only then do you start up the goof assed paint program to make the graphics you hang on the layout... bitter pill for the PSD jockeys to swallow, but people visit websites for the content, NOT the "stupid photoshop tricks" you hang around it -- just like they don't visit for the goof assed javascripted bandwidth wasting annoying animated bull either. Takes you more than 3 hours per page, you're just dicking around with stupid **** that does more to drive visitors away than turn them into conversions.
There is nothing wrong with using these free templates. Just dont expect to use it right out of the box. There will be a lot of tweeaking that you will have to do to make it all useable.