eWorld Looks
One of the things I do quite often is change the look of this site. I don't ever claim to be a graphic designer, but I enjoy fooling around with this type of stuff. Instead of letting these looks perish when my whims change, I've decided to archive them here. I haven't done much work to them, so don't expect many links to work.
eWorld 2.0The HTML for this look is taken from archive.org's April 22, 1999, index. It's pretty refined for something that old. Nice indexed gifs...eWorld 4.0
The minimalist look. The three images used in this look take up 5k. Talk about an easy load...eWorld 5.0
I remember people telling me that this look just wasn't right for my site. I disagree. The logo text, especially, is one of my favorites. I would probably change the navbar stuff, but I like the rest. The page content is taken from an October 8, 1999, archive.org index.eWorld 6.0 (green) (orange)
Ohhh... Layers... For the first time I actually used div tags on the site. It was an interesting look, and the whole color swapping thing was kind of cool. The orange look went live on November 13, 1999.eWorld 7.0 (Home Page)
This is one of my favorite looks. The whole image twirl thing came out perfectly. I'm not a big fan of not having content on the front page (even though I still don't), but other than that I love it.eWorld 8.0
This is my favorite look. I love the whole border, and the mock 3d is awesome (the images are run through a 3d program that normally would produce images viewable with 3d glasses. I intentionally blew up the offsets, though, so nothing matches up). You almost lose the middle face in the web version, though.eWorld 9.0
This look never actually made it to the web, even though it was completely done. I'm often left looks in the xcf stage, but I don't usually drop them after creating the entire thing and making it html.eWorld 10.0
This was a cool picture, but I don't think the look around it did it enough justice. It was my only horizontal scrolling look to date, though.eWorld 11.0
A return to the clean and sane. A little too clean for my tastes... This look ran from August to December 2000.eWorld 12.0
A fun look, but after a while I got tired of the orange. This look launched on December 12, 2000.eWorld: transit
A little transitional look. This went live the day before I headed west to USC, August 20, 2001.eWorld: new beginnings (14.0)
This look was always good, but not great. I liked getting the translucent looking body back, but the clipped image edges and sort of muted colors never fully sat right with me. This look went live on September 13, 2001.eWorld: reflections (15.0)
I really liked this look, but I always thought the body area was too narrow. It made my content too long. I definitely loved getting the sidebar back, though. It went live on January 8, 2002.eWorld: quiet (16.0)
I needed something subdued after how bright reflections was. I made this particular look intending to only use it for a couple days, but then liked it enough to keep it around for four months. After that, though, it started depressing me. It launched on March 9, 2003.eWorld: simplicity (17.0)
I went went dark (quiet) to grey. I think it was a great look. I love the lefthand image. I think the color that was there worked perfectly. But eventually I wanted a little more color, so things had to change. The look went live on July 20, 2003.eWorld: simplicity through pastels (17.1)
I needed some color in my life, but didn't actually want to create a new look, so I just colored it. I don't have a date for when this one launched, but it was sometime in November of 2003.eWorld: style (18.0)
I don't remember my motivation here. Looking back on it now I think the pastels look was better. At the time I think I wanted a wider body area. I put this look up March 5, 2004.eWorld: grit (19.0)
I put this look live on May 2, 2004, and it lasted until October 17, 2004. I wanted something to do with downtown, and this is what I ended up with. I never quite loved it. I must have gotten lazy: this look made its entire run with the home page still claiming to be eWorld: style.