{"id":6444,"date":"2012-01-25T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T03:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2019-01-29T01:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T09:44:48","slug":"appalling-community-site-designs-from-the-skeletons-of-my-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/appalling-community-site-designs-from-the-skeletons-of-my-past\/","title":{"rendered":"appalling community site designs from the skeletons of my past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does any one remember Asian Avenue? Apt107? xKube? Vancouverxchange?<\/p>\n<p>I totally rode the wave of community websites in the early 2000&#8217;s and I have a plethora of horrible user names and tacky layouts to show for it.<br \/>\nI remember spending\u00a0<strong>HOURS<\/strong>\u00a0on end creating\/coding layouts for these websites and even longer time filling each one up with crappy content about my adolescent existence.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God my skills got progressively &#8220;better&#8221; 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:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/1.jpg?resize=500%2C571\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6452\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2.jpg?resize=500%2C571\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6453\" title=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/3.jpg?resize=500%2C308\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I had entire flash animations created to go with this one. *face palm*:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6448\" title=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/4.jpg?resize=500%2C565\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"565\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6454\" title=\"6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/6.jpg?resize=500%2C564\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"564\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The following is my shameful collection of &#8220;side scrolling&#8221; layouts.<br \/>\nEach one of would&#8217;ve taken hours to design.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6455\" title=\"8\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8.jpg?resize=500%2C625\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each one of the following layouts had &#8220;text boxes&#8221; placed over the blank square areas you see on the graphic (usually filled with angsty teen rambles):<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"7\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/najin.x10.mx\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/7.jpg?resize=500%2C1587\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"1587\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For your comical enjoyment, I&#8217;ll disclose with you that my AA name was kp-ninja (kp standing for &#8220;korean pride&#8221; &#8212; I know. I know.) &amp; my apt107 alias was &#8220;kp-playette&#8221;.<br \/>\nTruly embarrassing.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, the wasted days of my youth are reduced to a laughable visual mess.<br \/>\nAt 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does any one remember Asian Avenue? Apt107? xKube? Vancouverxchange? I totally rode the wave of community websites in the early 2000&#8217;s and I have a plethora of horrible user names and tacky layouts to show for it. I remember spending\u00a0HOURS\u00a0on end creating\/coding layouts for these websites and even longer time filling each one up with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[66],"tags":[377,379,378,383,384,381,382,385],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","tag-aa","tag-apt107","tag-asian-avenue","tag-community-websites","tag-graphic-design","tag-vancouverxchange","tag-vx","tag-website-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8.jpg?fit=500%2C625","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3qg3D-1FW","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.najin.ca\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}