Older Layouts
Captivations: When you clicked on an enter image, I think of Wednesday Addams, you were taken to a page that said "captivations." Below was a text box that showed updates. Each letter was a link. They brought you to me, Amanda, friends, poetry, icons, links, guestbook, inspirations, my other sites, journal, music, leave the site and a few other thins I can't remember. It was nice, it used Css. I was aiming for a purple theme, but at that time still had some red/green links. I couldn't let go of the colours.
Indifference: I liked this a lot, so did other people, but it used Iframes. They were still really incompatible at the time. I had a picture of HellBelle as an image map, and two iframes. The left was navigation, and had a background image with lyrics from "Nothing Else Matters." I don't know how that really went with the Indifference theme - I somehow linked it to the lyrics "never cared for what they did.." The links took you to the same places as the Captivations layout - even the same exact pages. I believe I wound up making double copies of every page to fix this. It was messy, and never fully complete. It sitll had the red/green links. I gave up on this one fast.
Shameless Addiction: This layout lasted something like a year. I never really considered it a layout. There was a frame along the top which stayed blank until Sav finally convinced me to put an image there - which was just a cheap banner I made. There were 3 vertical frames below that. The middle showed updates upon entering. The left was navigation, each link opened a subnav in the right frame. Those links then opened in the middle. I still had the colour problem. I did eventually fix them with this. At some point during these three layouts, i changed the index page to be a drop down menu to all of my sites.
Version 3
Version 4
I suddenly decided I needed a layout. A real layout! So I found my favorite picture of Kurt Cobain and basically pasted on some text, the lyrics to "Heart Shaped Box." This one used three frames, the image, the content, and the navigation. The content frame had a blue bg, with a white table, it was neat. The navigation was the letters spelling out his name. There were each an iamge. On mouseover a little bevel asterisk appeared. I really liked what I did with CSS and such. Many people thought this was too bright. It was only up about a month.
Version 5
I basically took one image of Peter and Pasted on a bunch of others. I made the space for text, and used absolute positioning. It was nice, but organization got a little squished caused I didn't make the text areas big enough. I had this one on fateback, and kept it when I moved into my domain. I liked looking at it, but it was a horror to update. I started using SSI.
Version 6
I wanted a site similar to a nuke site. This is what I came up with. It was simple and nice. I made it a pop up for larger browsers because it used absolute positioning and centering. I later thought of a way around this. I felt I did not customize enough of the site however.
Version 7
This layout used two anime pictures. One from Fushigi Ugi (is that right?) and the other of IVY and some guy from some PS game. -lol* I love the image in the top lefthand corner. This used frames and chromeless windows. I found out that chromless opens full window in ie 6.0. I didn't mind, but some people did. I really liked this layout! But I was so excited to get a new one up!
Version 8
This layout was different for me. It feature Kiss, not because I'm a huge fan, but because I like the song "God Gave Rock and Roll to You." If you can't tell, I love my music! The acutally Kiss image was fanart, -sigh* yes I am a thief. The background was from sotight.org. I did credit them. I used a link javascript, which was pretty cool. A lot of people didn't like the pink, but I loved it. The fonts used for Scriptina, Redensek, and DieNasty.
Version 9
I loved this layout! I searched forever and a day to find the right picture of Savage Garden, and then I tried about 3 other layouts before I decided on this one. It was a pop up, and made up up some very soothing blue colours. The background images came from Ghetty Images, and I edited them slightly. The navagation used a "folding menu" javascript. Unfortunately, not everyone could use it, and I didn't find that one out until later. The fonts used were Redensek, Vivaldi, and something else.
Version 10
This layout was a piture scanned from the cd book of Metallica's "St Anger." The cd wasn't that great but I love the picture. It used image maps and tables. I didn't get as much positive feedback about this one as I would have liked, but I really liked it. I used Edwardian and Demon Night fonts for the layout, and some beveled Celtic trinities.
Version 11
I decided I wanted to make a layout out of Yoshi because he it cute. ^__^ The backgorund I made using some PSP effects and it really wasn't that complicated. The picture of Yoshi I basically pasted on and I did some fancy effects with the text, but in the end you really couldn't tell anyway. =\ The eggs used a javascript that made them "bounce" when you hovered over them. Mostly I got a lot of comments about how cute Yoshi was, and that really got onto my nerves. Once the cute factor was overlooked the layout itself wasn't that great. I was sick of it so I made a new one quickly..
Version 12
I really liked this layout. I had the idea in my head and drew a rough scribble in a notebook. I browsed Getty and found some images of roses. I also had PSP problems so both the hearts were made with the font Hearts Galore from dafont. Anyway I made the majority of this myself and I got some great comments as well.. It was a fairly "trendy" layout but I liked thepunk feel of it. I would have kept it up had I not wanted to put up a Samhain layout. (=
Version 13
I loved this layout because it was completely mine. Itook a picture of one of my teddy bears sitting on our pumpkin and edited it just slightly. It had a different feel than what my layouts usually do. It was cute, festive, yet dark!
Version 14
After Halloween was done with I put up this layout. I had made it before. I found an image at Getty, and did very little editing. I colourized it and added the lyrics from "Lovesong" originally by the Cure. Yes, it was in dedication to my boyfriend. (= I changed a few things, from the way boting and navigation looked to the way the blog operated. I received a lot of positive feedback, but I think it was only because I started with such a good image.
Version 15
This layout I originally started almost a year before I put it up. I had downloaded the free trial of PSP 8 and was using it becaue I had problems with PSP 7. The process was interupted because of computer problems, and everytime after that I decided to work with it I was at a loss. What I had, was so awesome that I couldn't seem to put it all together. I finally decided on a navigation and used popups for the first time for my conent because the main layout wasn't functional for content.
Version 16
I knew for some time that I wanted to use an image of an angel statue for this layout so I searched until I finally found one which fit. Accordingly, I used the lyrics from "Lightning Crashed" by Live for the navigation. Overall, I felt the layout lacked in creativity and originality. Ever since the red layout, I've been painfully aware of the elements in my layout which were common or typical and it was the same with this.
Also, I was able to see many more shades and depths of colours due to my light monitor and for some people/systems, it was nearly impossible to view or read anything.
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