Does any one remember Asian Avenue? Apt107? xKube? Vancouverxchange?
I totally rode the wave of community websites in the early 2000’s and I have a plethora of horrible user names and tacky layouts to show for it.
I remember spending HOURS on end creating/coding layouts for these websites and even longer time filling each one up with crappy content about my adolescent existence.
Thank God my skills got progressively “better” as I made dozens of them. But for your amusement, watch as they get worse and worse as you scroll back into time through a selection of the oldest (and tackiest) eye-sores that I came up with as a tween:
I had entire flash animations created to go with this one. *face palm*:
The following is my shameful collection of “side scrolling” layouts.
Each one of would’ve taken hours to design.
Each one of the following layouts had “text boxes” placed over the blank square areas you see on the graphic (usually filled with angsty teen rambles):
For your comical enjoyment, I’ll disclose with you that my AA name was kp-ninja (kp standing for “korean pride” — I know. I know.) & my apt107 alias was “kp-playette”.
Truly embarrassing.
All in all, the wasted days of my youth are reduced to a laughable visual mess.
At least I can take pride in the fact that I will never again, not on my death bed, not upon the dying wishes of my most beloved people create such heinous designs ever again.
LOL Najin this is awesome. You look sooo young! Not that you look old now or anything. It’s hilarious I can totally tell you put in an absurd amount of time into AA. I’ve never had an AA account but i’m sure I would have been all up in that biz if I had known/influenced. was your fav movie romeo and juliette? lol!
hahahaha Deedee, these are only a few from the disgusting collection I have as well. I’m sure you would’ve been aaaall up in that if you were exposed to it too haha. Going to add your blog link to my site btw! <3
Aw thanks. How do I add yours to mine?? I am so not tech savvy lol…
OH yes thanks for following me on Twitter. I forgot you had an account. My friend said I should get one for the sake of my blog or something. Never thought I’d give into Twitter but it’s amazing once I realized how many celebrity chefs I can stalk-I mean-follow, on there!
haha yeah twitter is the bomb! You can search certain key words and see what everyone who tweeted about that word are saying too. Pretty spiffy!
You can add links to your side bar if you go to widgets (in your wordpress) and add the links widget. You can customize what links you have under links (the main menu). Heeem I hope that helps
This comment section is my kinda nerdy lol
I wish I kept my AA designs.. we were so famous back then…. lol
LOL… your the best 🙂 I think its amazing what you’ve done and its nice to see your evolution as an artist 🙂