Grid
I threw up again this morning. I had to run to make it past the carpeting.
These have been used at some point on one of my sites, from turbid-blue.org and snapdragons.org all the way back to my Microsoft Publisher '97 days. Click on the screenshots for larger and additional images. Info on the current layout is here.
v7.0 OILSLICK
March 2006 - August 2006
This layout is basically the same as v6.0, just with a different colour scheme and header image, and that the containing box doesn't continue infinitely downwards; it actually is a box, which, simple as it sounds, gave me a massive headache as it kept malfunctioning. I hadn't tested the site in IE in ages before this layout, either, which probably didn't help.
v6.0 SHADES OF GREY
December 2005 - March 2006
Inspired by another Linn's website, I went back to a centred header and a coloured background. I was beginning to realise that there was more art than writing on the site now, so using my own art again seemed to make sense.
v5.0 TINK
August 2005 - December 2005
More fiddling with stylesheets. Using a picture of my cat for the header again. The picture was way too big for smaller monitors, though. This layout was the last one on snapdragons.org and the first one here, on turbid-blue.org. I've more or less kept the sidebar from this.
v4.0 HERE THERE BE DRAGONS
May 2005 - August 2005
Very inspired by my livejournal layout; you can tell from how the content stretches infinitely onwards to the right, even though in comparison to my blog there was very little text here. This was the first time I used my own art; otherwise it was similar to the last two layouts.
v3.5 TINKERBELLE
March 2005 - May 2005
This is almost the same as v3.0 (hence 3.5 rather than 4.0), only with a picture of my cat as the header picture and a few fiddly bits. I abandoned the sidebar-blurb in favour of navigation links halfway through this one, as the screenshots show.
v3.0 TYPEWRITER
February 2005 - March 2005
This was the first proper layout I did, with stylesheets and clean coding and a usable navigation structure and everything (and a lot of help). The picture is from the bookshop/cafe The Winding Stair in Dublin; the walls of the staircase are covered in old pages.
v2.0 SINK
November 2004 - February 2005
This layout looks odd in anything other than 1024x768, and the font is impossible to read, though it looks pretty cool (and that was the most important thing at the time, usability be darned). The background photograph is, again, from The Winding Stair. Coding the art page to fit on the white bit took forever. Again, using unvalidated and messy (but still hand-coded!) HTML.
v1.0 FAIRY
September 2004 - November 2004
Snapdragons.org's first layout. The girl is a friend of mine at a carneval. Manipulating the photograph was the most time-consuming bit. Though I used hand-coded HTML for the first time ever, it was messy and unvalidated, and again the background was very monitor-picky. Still, it was a start.
Even older layouts
WHISPERED NOTHINGS
c. 2004
For the first time I had ad-free hosting of my own, and accordingly wanted a more sophisticated layout, using a vintage photo and everything. The site changed drastically, now including original fiction and fanfic. This layout was made in Photoshop rather than Publisher, so each page was essentially a giant image that used an image map for links. Not exactly dial-up friendly, in other words.
BLACK AND WHITE
c. 2003
Used both on my Angelfire site and a subdomain of my dad's, I continued to use Microsoft Publisher '97 for this site as well. The content was pretty much the same as my sites had had over the past few years, but now with a fancy photoshopped picture of myself. Ooooh.
WINDBLOWN TIGRESS
c. 2003
Used on a couple free site hosts as well as my dad's subdomain, this layout is an appalling example of what free sitebuilders can do. I think this was the first and last time I used one, preferring to stick to my trusty Publisher '97 for a few more years after this.
SPRING
c. 2002
This layout was first used on Geocities and since moved to dad's subdomain. It was the spring variation on my very first layout (which I unfortunately don't have a copy of anymore), but with the same content: bios of friends and myself, some badly compressed photos, a guestbook, really bad poetry, and other classic components of a 13-year old's website, courtesy of Publisher '97.