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works
Okay, this is my little page to present all my past layouts and such. If you click on the thumbnails, then you'll get directed to an html page. I don't think any of the links will work, though. If you want, you can look at the source and such and get ideas from it, etc., etc. I must warn you, though, that I used to be a HUGE overuser of frames. But do whatever, I'm not too particular about this stuff. The only thing I would like you not to do is take my images. Make your own little graphics or cut out your own pictures and such, you lazy bum.
I've separated the layouts into categories, and then put them in chronological order (mostly accurate, I think), so you can see the evolution of it all. I seem to have not done much my senior year of high school since 2001 was a particularly prolific year. presodawing, 2000? - join the army
Don't ask me why the army, this was in like 2000, so I honestly don't remember. It's pretty cool, though, even though it's all really really tiny.... I did have some more layouts before this, but I wasn't very organized about it all and mostly just saved over old index files, etc., so all that stuff is pretty much lost. It wasn't very good anyway, I don't think. The sad part is, I don't really remember!
presodawing, 2000? - guestbook
I kept the same guestbook throughout my sodawing phase as well, and then I got rid of it when people didn't really go to my site anymore since I stopped updating, and then whoever DID sign it were assholes who wrote mean things, so I just said, "ah, eff it," and closed it down. Kind of cool ... I like the design. Again ... tiny! Why? Who knows.
presodawing, 2000? - memories of rain
I still really like this layout! The only problem is, of course, the stupid scrollbar in the middle of the thing whenever you click on anything, but really, I think, pretty rad. And it incorporates one of my favorite drawings of my own, plus umbrellas! Which I love! Anyway, it gave me a chance to talk about myself, but I doubt anybody read any of it. Terribly boring, really.
presodawing, 2000? - ring
I was pretty obsessed with Escaflowne back in the day, so, following the example of about ten zillion sites, I made an online "shrine" to the main character, Hitomi. Sometimes I find the need to say, "Yes, I really was a huge nerd," but then I wonder, is it really that surprising? Must I explain it every time? Probably not ... Anyway, I do like this layout, although it's very ... involved, it was pretty fun to do.
presodawing, 2000? - pendant
One of the few subsites of the Hitomi shrine. Pretty standard, but I think this is one of the reasons why I started centering my main sodawing pages. At any rate, doing the Ring shrine really helped my skills, I think, even if it was incredibly geeky.
sodawing, 2001 - version 1
This is my very first sodawing layout, and I kinda like it. Although, this is when I still thought everything had to stem from the topleft, and I hadn't thought of centering stuff in boxes yet. I kinder like the rainbow colors.
sodawing, 2001 - version 2
I love this layout. I think it looks cool. I centered this (yay!), so I guess this is where it all starts. Plus, the menu took me forever to figure out, and so it's a very big achievement for me, you know. Of course, it doesn't work anymore. Thank you, activeX. I love the pictures of the soda and the wing ... it was a great layout.
sodawing, 2001? - version 3
Okay, so version three is by far the ugliest layout. BY FAR. I have made it slightly better looking for this Previous page. But before, since it was mainly focused on the links and stuff, I didn't have any room to put the body text anywhere, and I was like, "ahh, where should I put it." And ANY place would have been very ugly, but the place I picked was probably the UGLIEST!!! It was just on the bottom and it looked all bad and shit. geh. GROSS. GROSS!!!! so it was not very good. But just the links thing is not bad ... I really wanted this idea to look good, and it doesn't look gross anymore, but it still isn't spectacular and what I had pictured in my mind.
sodawing, 2001 - version 4
So this is one of my favorite layouts, too. (I kind of like most of these layouts...) It's a Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne picture, and I cut it out (it's not actually of her...), and I thought it'd look better coming from the left. This is also when I started using hover scroll button thingies as opposed to a scrollbar, which kind of looked cumbersome.
sodawing, 2001 - version 5
Ah, pink. A color I can never pull off, clothing-wise. I fashioned the design of this one off a picture of Aquarium's, it's supposed to be a cherry blossom tree. My brother said that I should have put a girl reading or something under the tree, but there was no trunk, and it would've cluttered it, so basically, my brother is a doofus.
sodawing, 2001 - version 6
I'm not sure I like this one a whole lot ... I ran into problems when I was trying to figure out what the rollovers would look like, and I redid them a few times. The final result wasn't all that satisfactory, either, so I don't think it was up for very long. But the script for the rollovers was very very easy and simple, it actually was written by a friend of mine, Kevin.
sodawing, 2001 - version 7
This layout was originally meant for my teacher, who decided not to use the other layout (below) I made for her, which I thought would be a bit better, more expansive, than a small box.
Anyway, this layout is pretty cool. It quotes Emily Dickinson, and anything that quotes her is pretty cool. It took me awhile to figure a lot of stuff out, I also started to use a different type of scroller button thingie, which was a lot easier to use. (Unfortunately, that doesn't work nowadays either...) I also used an iframe, which I think was a once and only thing.
sodawing, 2002 - version 8
I really like this layout ... I like trees and green things.
And look at the pretty rollovers!! Rollovers start getting easy here, because ... yah. They just do. I suppose once you start doing things and stuff, it's easy to just keep doing them the way they are. I suppose I should try and find some more ingenious way to present my stuff ... that's what would make me a better site than other ones. But I'm too lazy.
I also had a hard time with the frames, because at first, I wanted the whole thing coming out of the left, but then I thought it looked funny, derr. so I just changed it to my standard middle routine. And so I added in a bunch of random frames to make it okay. I could have done it a bit less complicatedly, but I was too lazy ... (do you sense a theme?)
sodawing, 2003 - version 9
I liked this layout when I first made it. And then, it stayed around. And stayed and stayed and stayed. So I got sick of it.
But I do like it nonetheless. When I made it I was really into Jimmy Eat World (if you couldn't tell), and so I decided to dedicate something to them. I've never really dedicated a layout before. And ... yeah.
Well, it's a fine layout, I guess, but if you ever try and make sense of the frames, you're going to really regret it.... since I screwed them up real good. REAL GOOD!! All right, that's all I have to say about Jimmy, since I'm about sick of his guitar and his music now.
sodawing, 2004 - version 10
Likewise with the v.9 layout, this one stayed for quite awhile ... it's been more than a year. Two years? Who knows...
It didn't annoy me as much as v.9 did after awhile, though. I think because I just didn't visit the site much at all. And I was too busy to care that I hadn't updated in forever...
It's the first one to feature yours truly, so perhaps that's why I didn't mind it so much... I do like this one a lot, despite the fact that the scrollbar script doesn't work in Mozilla. A lot of people said they couldn't read my handwriting, though ... ah well. You win some, you lose some.
sodawing, 2007 - version 11
I don't really like this layout ... I'd wanted to do something with the picture, but what I had in mind required a hell of a lot more technological know-how than I currently possess, and so it turned out kind of blah. And now, in my browser, you can't even see the whole thing, it cuts off at the bottom because of my ingenious use of frames ... yaaay.... Oh well, I think only about 20 people total saw this layout anyway, according to my site meter readouts...
blog, 2000? - diaryland
Once upon a time, I had a blog at diaryland, before the whole blog thing became huge. And so I designed a really simple, little layout for it. I really like this design, though, and I think it's impressive I was able to make the border using just html. I never do that anymore... or is it just a border? Hmm! The words are from Sleepless in Seattle and, of course, An Affair to Remember. My obsession with tiny, as you can see, was still prevalent at the time. I'm not sure why ... I've never had good eyesight. Still, tiny = cute! And the diary still exists, if you click here.
blog, 2003 - soylent
I first started my blog in 2003, so I know this date for sure... The reason for the whole soylent theme was, there's this awesome character in the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous (great movie, btw, everyone should watch), and she, for the talent portion of a beauty contest, reenacts scenes from Soylent Green ... HI-larious!! Verrrry simple layout, though. Ah well. I was lazy, I guess. And besides, with a blog, it's the words that are most important, not the layout!
blog, 2004 - this is fantasy
Not much to say with this one ... pretty unimpressive, really. I just widened it so that I could put some more pictures in it. So ... it's not terrible, but I guess it's not that awesome either. Again, I think I wasn't trying to come up with a crazy amazing layout, since the layout wasn't the point of the blog, it was just to present the blog.
blog, 2007 - the age of glass
I started having problems with my archives, so I had to come up with a new way to present them. Let me tell you ... it was pretty tough trying to reconcile a new layout with blogger's new beta whatever (people just don't like you creating your own layouts anymore), but I finally made it work, and I must say, I really like this layout. If I hadn't decided to change my domain, I would have kept it for much longer, I think. I also (and this is where the current layouts that blogger offers helped out), branched out from thinking that everything needed to be boxed in in some way.
miscellaneous, 2001 - Fauver
Okay, so this is the site I made for my teacher, and that she didn't use. So a lot of black and white pictures that I found on the net. I, personally, like the barcode thingie, although my teacher asked me if it was supposed to be there. -sigh- My design ego went down a few notches there ... but it wasn't too bad. Anyway, that's all I have to say about that.
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