Layout Archive

A glimpse into the past...

This site has had 3 main layouts since it opened.

Note: This page is mostly for archiving the mainsite's layouts. Meaning subsites on different layouts, as well as "project pages" may be missed. Images open in new tab


v0 - The "Portfolio Era", 2021-early 2022

No screenshots or archives exist for this layout. Though From memory, it was a very basic bootstrap site with a navbar instead of a sidebar, a large banner, no background. I honestly don't like this one, but I'm still pressed I didn't bother at least taking one in-dev screenshot

Jade Everstone (this site) got it's first layout in late 2021, and started as just a portfolio site with my initial plan being "make porfolio now, personal site later". At the time my main concern was I wanted to move off Carrd, but every other site builder I tried didn't fit what I wanted. I already had HTML knowledge from coding profiles for toyhouse so I decided instead to dig up my neocities page I made & never touched and made it my "portfolio page."


v1, v1.5 - Sidebar Blues, 2022

As mentioned before, I hated the original layout. The main things I wanted over the last one was feeling less "minimal", a cleaner design, and a sidebar... *sigh* That sidebar

This version's sidebar was a Bootstrap navbar forced into being vertical. It did it's job for the most part, but it was very clunky feeling. This was also when I started adding more pages to the site, such as the Everlogs, and project pages (before iirc projects just linked to DA).

v1.5 was a very minor layout change, in which I just added a secondary layout for project pages, a different header style, and switch the navs to using Javascript (mostly because updating pages individually got overwhelming after a while, especially because I tend to miss things or get stuck in "oh god did I actually do this right?" a lot. So stripping back the amount of pages I need to edit for a site-wide change helps "ease" the stress for me)


v2 - Keep it sleek, (current)

v1.5 was extremely short lived. Because I decided a "portfolio page" isn't what I wanted for myself or my art, so I dropped that for making a personal site! (with a focus on art ofcourse!) And that meant a new layout better suited for that.

It started because I wanted a new sidebar: with me wanting to make way for more pages, the old one had to go as it got clunkier the more I added onto it. But after a while of fighting with the old layout I just redid the whole thing. The main vibe I'm going for is "sleek". In other words, a more 'filled-out' feel like many 2000's-early 10's sites, but with the responsive functionalities of modern websites (without the minimalisim ofc... I'm not a fan of 'material design', but that's a rant for another day). And hey, I finally got that responsive nav working the way I wanted it to!