The Grand Design
This is presently the fourth incarnation of this page, and the
last, since I'm pleased with this final design and would like to
move on to creating (not redesigning) something else.
Once upon a time in 1999, I wanted to make a shrine page for Citan,
Sigurd, Ramsus, and Krelian each. I never had enough resources to
get anything off the ground, so I dropped the other 3 and focused
on Krelian after receiving a kind donation
from my friend Aiva.
For the second version of this, I wanted spiced up JS buttons, and
so I did. Unfortunately I also had frames, and I grew to hate frames
with a passion. No one uses them now anyway, as you can see. So
I junked that and made the version you see below.
That's
the layout I had before, inspired by the design of Krelian's Solarian
outfit, which I still think is a pretty novel idea. And the funny
vanilla envelope tab looking things were supposed to be just that,
only they didn't turn out so well. In the end it might not have
been so bad if I'd have known how to cheat and use Adobe Photoshop
to create template pages for me, but I enjoy hard-coding... most
of the time.
Now everything just looks better, cleaner, with the power of Photoshop
and Dreamweaver combined. It's still quite stiff, and I've added
CSS and JS to try and add a little something new in terms of dynamics,
but don't expect flash movies any time soon.
Once I also considered collecting Krelian fanfiction for this page,
but didn't think anyone would let me host his/her stories. Besides,
you can get a hold of them just by surfing over to Guardian Angels
and following their links and so on and so forth. Still, I would
have liked to have them all in one place. Unfortunately I think
too many years have passed, and I don't even know if it's possible
to make such a compilation anymore without tremendous effort, which
I have always been too frightened to expend.
However, I will gladly take comments, suggestions, or even submissions at
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