PAST LAYOUTS, me playing with HTML, playing with colors
Number of layouts used: 07
..:: LAYOUT #01, DIGIROYALTY LAYOUT ......
I must thank
DDG.COM and
dysania for letting me use this layout.
In the layout picture were originally two characters from Tsubasa ReserVOIR Chronicle (I don't know the series xD),
everything else is the same. The author requested not to change the layout picture but I just had to because it had nothing
to do with Ryo or Rika! I can't make layouts myself, I can only change some codes! But it's still a lovely one, isn't it?
The original layout picture was really beautiful, though.
The main layout picture was taken from
Akiyama, a great page about Ryo. The background
pictures are from the last Tamers episode, when Ryo asks Rika to lend him her powers and she starts to cry. Otherwise
I'm not really good with computer programs, I used paint and photoshop to make the whole layout pic look better. :)
This layout was used from
December 15th, 2008 to June 15th, 2009!
..:: LAYOUT #02, PURPLE & BLUE ......
My first layout (and the second DR layout) I made on my own .. well, almost .. My sister Nami (Taiora and Daikari page <3)
helped me with it and I took some html codes from other random sites.
I drew the picture by myself too. It's a typical RyoRika situation. And this picture 'story' is kinda based on a Ryuki
gif I saw a few times on Ryuki shrine pages. Sadly, I couldn't find the gif to show it to you .. :( It was Ryo that said
something to Rika, who was '?! what ?!' and then he smiled at her and she blushed. If you have this gif, please send it to
me! :D SO, the story is the same here .. Ryo calls Rika (Yo, Ruki! sounds better than Yo, Rika! (imo)) and she's all
annoyed by it. He then smiles at her and she blushes. I hope you understood everything even without my explanation. T_T
I really like how Ryo came out. Rika is fine too, I just don't like the last picture too much. But it's okay I guess ..!
I first drew Ryo and Rika on a piece of paper (I published the originals in my Fanarts) and then I scanned them to my
computer. It didn't look so good because I drew with a pencil and you could hardly recognise something. That's why I
took a picture of my scetches and colour them in purple and blue. And purple and blue are really Ryo and Rika's colours.
Did you ever notice that Ryo's eyes are blue and Rika's purple? And Ryo's colour at Tamer Matrix Evolution is purple and
Rika's blue? I wanted to stress that out .. xD
I used photoshop to colour the picture and I coloured it 'badly' in purpose.
This layout was used from
June 15th to December 25th, 2009!
..:: LAYOUT #03, PICTURE PERFECT ......
This layout is totally different from the first two ones. It's sooo dark! xD I downloaded it from
Magitek Designs, thank you thank you! I drew the picture by
myself but I asked two friends to colour it (since I suck at it) - thanks again, Yun and Nami (coloured with Gimp and
Photoshop, drawn by my pencil, ha-ha)!
The picture is a story - AGAIN. Ryo wants to take a nice photo with Rika and 'attacks' her. She refuses to take the photo and
in the end she gives him a secret smile (otherwise it would seem like a one-way attraction XD). It feels like there's one
scene missing between the second and the last picture but I just didn't have any more space to draw another one. ~~ Well, my
sis told me, it looked ok!
There are also many dots on the new layout. I hope you won't get dizzy. I really started to hate them when there was still
no main image (underneath it there are more DOTS) but when the pic came, I thought it was ok ...
It's maybe not the BEST layout but - as you could already guessed - I change it every 6 months and this time has come! :o It
looks better in Mozilla Firefox than in IE and the resolution is very important (imo) ->1024x768!! The (super special)
navigation bar looks weird in other resolutions .. T_T
I wanted the new layout to be even more special and I added a splash page! :3
..:: LAYOUT #04, WUUUT? ......
This is layout number 4. I wanted a drastic change and went from black to white, the last layout was just too dark (after watching it for six months).
So this one was made by me, that's why it only looks good in resolution 1280 - 768! I kind of liked it too much to make one for all resolutions and it's
true, I didn't have any more nerves left to do it different. It has a few bugs, since I'm no html expert but I think it came out well for a noob! :)
About the main image. It was drawn by me. Yes. But the idea was kind of stolen and I watched the original picture while drawing mine. It just didn't go
any other way, ppl!!! I was trying soooo hard for days to make a picture I'd like but that didn't happen! They were all just ... bleeh!! So I googled
for 'chibi anime lovers' or sth like that and found that cute yaoi pic (yes, yaoi). I'm never gonna tell you which one it was!! Oh, I painted it in
photoshop myself.
I decided not to make another splash page, they aren't so fun as I thought they would be. :s Every time I was visiting my site, I had to go through the
splash page first and .. it's just annoying!
There are some things I still don't like about the new layout but I probably won't change them.
About the name ... Wuut? Ok, yeah, I had no idea how I should call the new layout. And then I realised that Ryo's face looks a little like 'wuut (what?)?'
and named it after him. Lame, I know. XD And the picture itself. There is no story, I have no idea why Rika is 'riding' Ryo, it's because of the original
pic that had nothing to do with our two tamers. ~~ But it's cute, right? Layout's moto: Simple is the best!
..:: LAYOUT #05, MUCH OF ME IS YOU ......
Welcome to layout number 5! I knew how I wanted the new look to be and I planed it for weeks, however everyting stayed in my head, I waited for the last moment to make it true. I always do that and then I'm angry at myself - why didn't I start doing it earlier?! It could have come out so much better! Yeah, this pinky thing, too.
I had a different deadline at this layout, it was April the 1st, the day Tamers first came to Japan. The layout is pinkish because ... it's just how I pictured it. I wanted to make the picture of Ryo and Rika more professional but then I kind of liked the 'paint' way better (it's still done in photoshop you know!). Maybe in future when (if) I really learn how to colour properly, I'll make the pic really awesome!! Ok, back to this poor pic. I know Rika's eyes look weird but I like her dress and arms. xD And Ryo ... well, it's how I draw him, really typical Ryo! Not sure how I came to the whole music idea. The words - layout's name - are from a really beautiful slovene singer, I was listening to that song while making the page and then I just took them. Plus Ryo and Rika on the pic listen to the music and well, it could be what they're listening to! x)
I'm bad with HTML codes and the page was made in resolution
1280x768 and it doesn't work properly in other resolutions. =( One day I promise I'll make a layout that will suit you all!!
..:: LAYOUT #06, FIGHTING* ......
Info taken from the internet WaybackMachine, layout itself was unfortunately not preserved
Layout number 6. Made entirely by myself, pretty simple one. The picture is from the Digimon Tamers manga. I'd put a better picture there but the one of Ryo was one of three where Ryo had all his hair (most of the time the hair is cut with the frames - which is annoying, because there are some really cute Ryo pics in there >.<). And since Ryo had this serious look on his face, I had to find a similar Rika (not a very hard job, hehe). I called it Fighting* because of their face expressions but it's meant for fighting the Digimon and fighting through their lives not fighting with each other.
I still feel there's something missing in the layout. The colours are maybe not brave enough (I did put blue font colour but it didn't look good), everything is pink or purple or gray. I think that this new layout makes my page look more serious, which is good.
