Current Layout
Version 17, Entitled
Be my ACTress Again expresses my love for the
Type-Moon doujin studio, and it features 2 popular series from them. The title is inspired by the upcoming game in the
Melty Blood series called:
Actress Again. The header features
Matou Sakura and
Rin Tohsaka from
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. The footer features
Arcueid Brunestud and
Akiha Tohno from
Melty Blood, my favortie PC game series. This layout was inspired by Type-Moon's medieval style in their animes. This layout is a beautiful mixture of light textures and desaturation effects. I think these two elements really compliment each other, and that's why this layout came out just how I wanted it to be. Again, I don't like to have a small variety of colors in my layouts, so I mixed in a lot of colors in this layout. Surprisingly, it came out greatly. In addition to a new style, I learned how to use
Image Maps in this layout. I also learned how to code in
Tables, opposed to coding in
Div Layers. I also utilized how to upload from my
FTP Server, which is much faster and easier than uploading from the internet. Now, I can just upload from my desktop. I'm certain this layout will stay up longer than what I'd expect.
Previous Versions
Version 16
View. After 4 months of the previous design I thought I'd stop being lazy, think about something, and make this. Here is another one of my uninspired layouts that takes me a while to make. In the beginning of making a layout that's uninspired I usually start to loose hope before even coding it and it takes me over a week to compose it. But I didn't lose hope and it was time well spent. It's a blend of all of the summery colorful colors. Entitled;
The Concept of Love. The title and the text in the header comes from the song of the same name from my all time favorite game
Jet Set Radio Future. The character featured is
Yoko from
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The texture came from 44suburbia which is now closed. This layout lasted from June 25 to July 19. :)
Version 15
View. It was such a pain making this layout, but I loved it. It was
SO SO SO colorful. It was inspired by spring and my IPhone. In the beginning this layout only consisted of warm colors, but then I changed it entirely into the whole spectrum of spring colors. It features
Emma Skye from the
Apollo Justice video games. I've never played them, but the art caught my eye and I fell in love with it. This was up for a very long time. It lived from March 2008 to June 2008.
Version 14
View. My best layout yet. I love this layout. After reading through a lot of blogs about the web design community and
inspiration (
this article) I grew very discouraged about the previous version 14, so I re-did it into something more of my personal style because it was a complete copy lol. It took me a while to think of a color scheme that catches the eye immediately, and I pulled it off nicely if I do say so myself. I spiced up this layout with a lot of textures, it makes it stand out from just regular CSS colors. I also super selective colorized the anime image, I think it gives this layout the feeling it needs. The notebook effect looks makes it stand out even more huh?
Tyler from Anxiety taught me how to do it through e-mail and
Harper from Anxiety was my new source of inspiration at that time. Since I was suffering with designers block at that time, I sought out something that could give me a boost in my head. I tried out their style of layouts for a while with this version to learn a new style that's out there. Unlike most people who copy blatantly, I took it in and made it my own. Then I grew tired of that particular style. I went on to make something right out of my head and uninspired like I used to, which takes me a few weeks to do, but it's all worth it. This layout was up for quite a long time.
Version 13
View. Wow. Let me be the first to say, I totally LOVE this layout. It took me two days to put together, and I'm happy with the result. It was kept up from July 16th, 2007 to August 20th, 2007. This version features
Goto Maki from the Japanese band
Morning Masume. The image was found on Photobucket.com with the search
Morning Musume. I looked all around the world for the image. The colors reflect my summer: fun, refreshing, and colorful. I wanted to get away from making anime based layouts all of the time, so this is something new.
Version 12
View. This version features a character from the anime
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. It's very simplistic and compatible, and it looks professional. It was inspired by
Nuwen, a very skilled Wordpress template designer. Not much to say really, but I loved it.
Version 11 - Nana
View. Version 11 was kept up for a few days, it was put up on July 1st, 2007. This layout really didn't stick in my head, and I got easily bored with it. It was compatible with all browsers and resolutions, which was a good thing. I tore it down on and put version 12 up on the 4th of July 2007.
Version 10 - Fresh Fruit
Fresh fruit was a very small layout. It was very colorful though, and it was easy on the eyes. But...it was kept up for a few days until I got tired of it.
Version 9 - Ice Cream
This was a nice professional looking layout. It was blue and pink, a good choice of colors. It featured Sakura from Card Captor Sakura. It was inspired by my affiliate Scrapboxed. It was up for about a week.
Version 8 - Eternal
Eternal was complete
failure. It was up for only 3 days. I knew I could've done better. The content was organized, but the layout was all off balanced. It was a blend of purple, red, blue, and pink, and that's the only part that was a success.
Version 7 - Summer Sunset
I totally
L-O-V-E-D this layout! It was up for a month and a few days. It was a mixture of pink and gray. I really can't describe how much I loved the layout. This layout was just...awesome.
Version 6 - Marshimaro
View. This version featured a character from the anime
Ichigo Marshimaro which means
Strawberry Marshmellow in japanese. This was one of my longest lasting layouts, it was up for a whole month when a few of my layouts last for a few weeks at the most. It was one of my favorites.
Version 5 - Efflorescence
View. This layout was up during the spring time after version 4. It featured a character from Kaleido Star. Yet another lovely mixture of purple, white, and pink. It was really spacey though. I realized that some people on the net have lower screen resolutions than my 1024x768 screen. Ah the dreaded 800x600 screen resolution, I despise it. Knowing that some browsers had to scroll left and right to see the whole layout because of their 800x600 screen resolution, I took down the layout.
Version 4 - Violet Spring
View. This layout was up during the spring time. It was a mixture of purples and pinks. It was very...empty. It was only up for a few days after I started hating it.
Version 3
View. Wow. I LOVED this layout. It was blue, my favorite color. It featured a character from Disgaea. It took up the whole 1024x768 screen. I had no idea that people with 800x600 screen resolutions had to scroll left and right to see the layout. Oh well, it was awesome nonetheless. It was kept up for almost a month.
Version 2
View. Yet another spacey layout that took up the whole 1024x768 screen. It featured fan-art this time. I copied the almost the same navigation style from a layout I saw a while back.
Inspiration isn't the same as
copying people, and I'm glad I've learned from me mistake. This was kept up for about 3 weeks. Not much to say really, but it was a lovely layout.
Version 1
View. Wow, I can't believe we're down to when Ashikiyoko first started!!! Here's version 1. It featured a character from Moetan. It was easy on the eyes and it had a techno feeling to it. The main body was inspired by a layout I saw a long time ago, I have bad memory. You guessed it. It took up the whole 1024x768 screen AGAIN. But hey, I liked it and everyone who visited liked it, so I was cool with that layout. Now do me a favor and get a 1024x768 screen resolution or higher if you don't have one already.
