Version I. Description   Version:#1   Added: November 5, 2007.   Removed: January 7, 2008.   Designer & Codeder: Maya   Quote: "Design is what you do, when you don't know what you are doing"   Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2 The layout is featuring a character from Manga Carta game. As noticed the header is pretty tiny comparing to the rest of the layout. I always got complains about big headers on my layouts so this is a nice change. The layout has a lot of details in it like 9 different boxs including the navigation boxes based on transparency and table/div coding. I've used filters to lower the opacity of the images.Which is a bad idea from what I ridden because it makes the page load slower so im considering removing that or just leaving it on the home page. Any suggestions regrading that matter? My chose of colors were blue, yellow,purple,green not exactly easy for the easy so I've lowered the opacity of them so they dont butcher your eye sight. There is one mistake I consider a fetal one...I put my affiliates on the footer image x_x im so sorry guys that will never happen again. Im planing to add a new layout to the guestbook and change the forum layout as well but that will come with time. Patience is a virtue so they say. Anyway enjoy the new addition because who knows when I'll be able to update again. Version II. Description   Version:#2   Added:January 7, 2008.   Removed: January 30. 2008.   Designer & Codeder: Maya   Quote: "If you love to deeply, you cannot bear the pain of loss"   Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2 The layout is featuring a character from Manga Carta game. As noticed the header is pretty tiny comparing to the rest of the layout. I always got complains about big headers on my layouts so this is a nice change. The layout has a lot of details in it like 9 different boxs including the navigation boxes based on transparency and table/div coding. I've used filters to lower the opacity of the images.Which is a bad idea from what I ridden because it makes the page load slower so im considering removing that or just leaving it on the home page. Any suggestions regrading that matter? My chose of colors were blue, yellow,purple,green not exactly easy for the easy so I've lowered the opacity of them so they dont butcher your eye sight. There is one mistake I consider a fetal one...I put my affiliates on the footer image x_x im so sorry guys that will never happen again. Im planing to add a new layout to the guestbook and change the forum layout as well but that will come with time. Patience is a virtue so they say. Anyway enjoy the new addition because who knows when I'll be able to update again. Version III. Description   Version:#3   Added: January 30. 2008..   Removed: April 8, 2008.   Designer & Codeder: Maya   Quote: "Remember youth as you pass by, as you once was, so was I. As i am now, you soon will be. Prepare to die and follow me"   Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2 The layout is featuring some art made by a French artist by the name of Luis Royo . For those who know heard of him and are familiar with his type of art you'll understand why it was so hard to just look at his artworks and not use them. Im not sure if I was allowed to use his art for my layout but the hell with it I couldn't resist. The whole theme was dark and gloomy mostly dark blue,green colors combinate s with some other dark colors such as dark red,orange. The layout was mostly made of different stock images. I expecailly liked the footer of the layout which was made of graves lol scary I know. Also the "home,forum,music" navigation ended up awesome because of the hover sparkle buttons one more thing I've loved about this layout. Version IV. Description   Version:#4   Added: January 8. 2008..   Removed: June 30, 2008.   Designer & Codeder: Ren & Maya   Quote: "To the deadliest sins I confess and I take all you bitches down!!"   Program: Adobe Photoshop CS2/CS3 As Maya have stated, yes I design it. Curious about it? Well, I just have to talk about it then. I made this layout because Maya was out of inspiration. She just told me that she wants the next layout to be 'boyish'! Something different so that we can relate with the other male designers out there. Show her some scans and that was the hard part because Maya is really hard to impress! I found the render and it is already been vector. The only brushes that I use in this layouts are only the blood brushes, while the others in the background are just pen tool, vector and pen tool again!!! The swords and the paintings are not brushes but they are actually screen shots that I take from the Anime. Vector and fix the screen shots a bit and BAM!! There you go!! The swords next to the 'Allianora' is also a screen shot but I have to vector it which is quite a pain. As for the choice of colors, I get inspired by all the Samurai Champloo related art works. I was also thinking that Allianora has its previous layout dark, so why don't we make something different this time?? Samurai Champloo is a stylish anime and all I am thinking about is just to bring the stylish-ness of the anime in this layout and made the layout to a pop-art style. I think I manage to pull that out. Maybe!! The layout was fully coded by Maya. The nevigations design was done by Maya. In a way, we kinda design this layout together.