Version 1.0
The First
I am a fan of artistic nudity, and this theme was all about that. The main menu wasn't recognizable as a nude figure, but look at it upside down. She was underwater and headless. (creepy!) The splash page (not shown) was the naked torso of a woman. Nine inch nails quotes flooded all the pages in vs. 1-4.5. This was before I started putting hidden messages telling about the state of my life into the site.

Version 2.0
Insects & Hummingbirds
This was the same color basicly as 1.0 , cept I made it more girly and got rid of the nekkid people. I have a hummingbird with some flowers that I colored in photoshop.. other than that its a pretty simple layout. The splash page was simply a lens flare with "pandora raighn" written. Nothing special or deep here.

Version 3.0
A Light At The End Of The Tunnel
I call this my separation page... This is where I started getting meaningful with my layouts. Alanis Morisette donned my menu, looking forlorn. The background was white for the first time, misleading you to believe I was no longer depressed. The splash page had the front of a frieght train. The words "There is a light at the end of the tunnel" is also misleading, making you think I have any kind of hope.. I got the idea from the song "No Leaf Clover" by Metallica. "The light at the end of your tunnel is just a frieght train comin' your way.." I'm so freaking clever (bitter).

Version 4.0
Angelina
I'm in love with Angelina Jolie. I was going to make my whole set with her beautiful face on it, but when I got so many bad reviews on it, I decided to 86 it.

Version 4.5
Is That You There?
One of my best sets I think. My face was everywhere in here, all enigmatic and all. I'm so vain. The splash page had a picture of me peeking out from some darkness with the words "Is that you there, or just a another demon that I meet" - my philosophy about meeting new friends.. another Metallica song, "The House that Jack Built". Kind of a clever title, since people would always ask me if that was me in the picture.

Version 5.0
Up From The Ashes
I redid this whole thing, and for the first time, I implemented PHP. The side image, as well as the image that was on the splash page was a new image everytime you refreshed the page.(and everytime the page loaded.) There was a lot of erotica photos, as well as bondange girls *puuuuurrrrr* on the page. It was all new, and I felt so accomplished when I was done. The title comes from the fact that I had divorced and recovered from my old life.

Version 6.0
Self-Discovery
Going on my tradition of recycling layouts, all I did was change the CSS map for the colors, and remake the pictures on the splash page and the side. This one was another "lisa-face" set, with my own pictures on the side, taken by crs. (in a kind of filmstrip looking thing) Nothing MUCH new technically from the last layout, but it looked completly different than the last so it got its own version number. The title is kind of self-explanitory, but it was a period of time I was recovering from heartache and I needed to find myself so that I would never be alone.

Version 7.0
Favorable Denial
My best layout to date. The whole thing is written in php, using includes and other miscellany-scripts. Javascript free, amazingly. (I think) The refresh thing is in this layout as well, cept its more prominent, becuase the images change every time you go to a new page. You wouldn't guess you were looking at the same freaking page on EVERY page would ya?  I LOVE includes. The title comes from my getting over an ex-boyfriend, realizing that him leaving me was favorable because I found someone who made me happy, as well has he finding himself a life that I could never bring him.

Version 8.0
Libra
Double site here kind of... I experimented a lot with this layout, creating random includes, making the site different everytime you refreshed, negative and positives, like a picture. I also added j_tag, a tagboard system as well as my webcam and a beeper messenger for my trillian. Nothing really profound with the theme of the site.. I finally made my livejournal the main page, and discarded the use for a splash page. The title comes from my astrological sign, with it being either black or white, I think its kind of obvious why I did it this way.

Version 9.0
Seelenfreiheit
Here I was thinking of something with a color I would generally never use. I liked the idea of having panels with a different navigation or toy in it. It was a cute layout and it was easy to do with iFrames. The title of this layout is "Liberty of the Soul" in German. I was freeing myself from everything in my life at the time and the title just shows how I was trying to recover from being co-dependant.. something I've been wanting for a long time.

Version 10.0
Rote Lippen Kuessen
An awesome Wumpscut song gave me the idea for this.. although this is way girlier than anything that would remind you of Wumpscut. There wasn't much to this layout. It was wider than most of the layouts I've done. It has a lot of tables within tables as well as chopped graphics and cell row/column manipulation. The title means "Red Lipped Kisses" in German. I was thinking very sensual when I went for this layout.

Version 11.0
Denouement
The end of an era, I suppose. This layout I did from a photograph I took of myself. I credit Zoran for finding this font for me, it gives the page a lot of character. I nuked a lot of old content and added in some new content. The title shows that I feel accomplished with all that I have done in my life. Denouement means, "The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot." The plot meaning my life. Yes it has been dramatic.. but this is the end of that dramatic plot.

Version 12.5
Thieves
This version is 12.5 because I had worked on another purplish layout and finished it before this one and trashed it. This one has quite an obvious theme. The red writing meant to be like writings in blood spell out karmatic means to an end. The words on the title are lyrics to a song I've sort of made a theme song to my recent habit of pissing away those who are shitty in my life. I've taken a lot of content out of this verison. A lot of things I don't think deserve to have space on my site, and a lot of pictures for the same reason.

Version 13
All the Love in the World
Version 12.5 was short lived because it was created in bitter hatrid and pain and that sort of thing does not last very long for a person who is in therapy. Plus, it was giving me nightmares. This new site has to be the best one to date since version 4.5. The painting on it is one that a beautiful and wonderful girl named Kelly painted for me. The painting means a lot to me, as well as all the feelings and emotions that went into it. This was a total revamp, though it doesn't look like it. It's been simplified and all the gallery images have been removed and replaced with just what I wanted on there. Most of the pages have been either totally redone, or simplified. I'll be working on growing this version and will definetly be around for a long time.

Version 14
The Way I Am
I didn't want to change the theme of my website but I had to. This theme is very plain, very simple and a little dark. A random quote about life is on every page, randomizing on every page change or refresh. There isn't very much to say about this version except that it feels like I do. Simple, plain, tired and somber. I'm still here just like my site and I'll blossom another day, just not today.

Version 15
Parabola
I took the purple layout that I had before version 14, changed the colors and added a new picture and new theme. This theme was inspired by a friend. The title, "Embrace this moment. We are Eternal. All This Pain is an Illusion." is a lyric from Tool.. which seems to be fitting in this time of my life.

Version 16
Ever After
Madly in love, I created a theme that could speak worlds about how I felt. The lyrics to "Ever After" by god module littered the frames uttering "Let's pretend we're not alive, make believe we've already died so we could stay like this, happily ever after." Dreams do not last forever, and this layout certainly didn't either.

Version 17
How Far Can You Fall
Alice fell down the rabbit hole to chase her curiousities and ended up getting herself into more than she could handle, wishing all she had to just go home. Dorothy had companions in Oz, but Alice was alone though her entire adventure through wonderland, scared but getting through the mazes and insanity. Alice in wonderland has always been one of my most favorite story, and this theme certainly captures the heart of this story.

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