From 08/2006 to 12/2006. I'm seeing a pattern here.
Quote at the top of the page: z^2+C, which is the formula to make the Mandelbrot set. The "grass" at the bottom of the picture reminded me of some kind of fractal.
Notes: This is a Photoshopped picture of a tree in heavy mist that I took in Japan. However, it looked weird to have the grass end abruptly, so I copied and pasted a whole bunch of grass in to (hopefully) taper the grass off gracefully.

From 07/2006 to 08/2006.
Quote at the top of the page: this point of pale light. This is part of a quote from Carl Sagan; a larger part of this quote was written in the main frame.
Notes: I got tired of this theme rather quickly, partially because the layout looked a bit amateurish. This is because I drew the background myself in Photoshop. I wanted to do something slightly different with the layout, though, so I put the main control menu in the spotlight. Also, I forgot to take a screenshot of what this layout looked like with the html before I changed it, so this is the background for this layout.

From 12/2005 to 07/2006.
Quote at the top of the page: I think it was "hi" in binary. I probably should have checked before taking that title off.
Notes: I was going for a theme of electricity/circuitry. The wires in the circuit, though, are all just curly and lead to weird places. In other words, it's more of an organic circuit, if that makes any sense. You can see some circuitry symbols in there-- resistors, capacitors, and lightbulbs. Because it's a theme of electricity, I shamelessly stole the phrase "switch on" from Merry's song "japanese modernist." Actually, that phrase probably appears in lots of places other than that song, but I was thinking of that song when I put the "switch on" in there.

From 08/2005 to 12/2005.
Quote at the top of the page: "Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."
Notes: The colorful ferris wheel on the left is the result of me playing with a picture I took of the famous gigantic Ferris wheel in Odaiba, Japan in Photoshop. I was playing with some filters and somehow managed to make it look like it was a silhouetted ferris wheel at sunset. The quote at the top of the page was just put there because it's one of my favorite quotes.

From 07/2004 to 08/2005.
Quote at the top of the page: "We are imprisoned in unbounded space." -W.H. Auden
Notes: This layout was some Shadow Hearts 2 screenshot of a tree I utterly mangled in Photoshop. The final result reminded me of the CD cover for Vintersorg's "The Focusing Blur" album, so I decided that this layout would be my Vintersorg homage. This also explains the quote at the top of the page; this quote is stuck in the lyrics booklet before one of the songs. I forget which one.

From 11/2003 to 07/2004.
Quote at the top of the page: Don't remember.
Notes: A screenshot of a castle from Shadow Hearts that, again, I mangled in Photoshop. Keep in mind that at this time I was really new to Photoshop, so that explains the terrible quality of the photoshopping. I called this the "Castle of a silence" layout; I own the Shadow Hearts OST and one of the songs is called "Castle of a silence." It's a castle from Shadow Hearts, so there you go. Ah, also, I didn't have the foresight to take an actual screenshot of the webpage, so that's just the background. The rest was just grey text on the black background.