The oldest site layout I have saved on my computer is from 2002. Looking through my old layouts it’s obvious I favour some colours over others. For the past four years I’ve only used monochrome, pink and blue in all of my site layouts. Before that I was a bit more varied. Here are the number of times I’ve used different colour themes for my site since 2002. Even the slightest bit of a colour here counts as the layout being of that colour theme since most of my layouts are monochrome with just a splash of colour as accent.

Monochrome: 14
Blue: 14
Pink: 9
Red: 7
Green: 6
Yellow: 4
Purple: 2

Looking at my old layouts I feel that everything I made before 2011 sucked. Everything made before 2009 sucked big time. The layouts pre 2005 are pure embarrassment. I’m actually thinking about taking down the entire Whirlwind Archive where I display my old layouts because I’m ashamed to be associated with the fugliness of my early web design. Have a look at it yourself. Would you want to be associated with some of those things? And I’m not saying that to get pity compliments. It’s not strange that stuff I did ten years ago seems horribly outdated and ugly now. As with everything web design improves with time and has trends which comes and goes.

A while ago I got this vision of a pink and turquoise layout with a cupcake. Since I according to myself isn’t good enough at making digital art for my vision to be realized I bought stock images for the layout. I’m in love with this concept. Do you get a 50s retro vibe from it? That’s the feeling I tried to catch.

I haven’t checked how it works in other browsers than Opera yet but it should be fine in everything but old versions of IE. I’ll fix that tomorrow.

I’ve finished the revamping of the 2011 and 2012 ego galleries with self-portraits. The new galleries are a lot easier to navigate and also looks better. What do you think?

I’ll work my way through the rest of the 827 photos dating 2000-2010. It’s going to take me a while. Weeks, probably. I really hate revamping the galleries. I’ve done it a couple of times, the last time two years ago. Hopefully after I’m done with this I’ll be happy with the new way of organizing things for at least a few years.

I made a new layout. A remake of the previous one. Just changed the colours and images. I took the advice of a friend and made something which isn’t monochrome or pink. Yes, I can actually make layouts using other colours!