// History \\

Sicne there have been so many different versions of the Janera League site, I've decided to catalogue them here. I don't have the full-sized screenshots, I'm afraid, because they take up too much space but here are the shrunken forms, with a few notes from me.

// The different layouts \\

Version 1.0

This was the first Pokemon site I ever formatted, something I wrote up while on an iframe loving spree. As a result, the entire site was based on iframes and div layers. The background was an image I found in my computer's databanks and shrunk to fit - as a result it was always rather bitty.
What I disliked about this site was probably the ugliness of 75% transparent black text on 75% transparent white squares that were often too big. It was a clumsy site, and one that those people stupid enough to have their browser resolution set to 800 x 600 couldn't view properly. Its good side - a pokedex that resembled the Ruby/Sapphire Pokedex - failed to offset the bad sides because, yet again, 800 x 600 viewers were being forced to scroll back and forth far too much. The layout was redone about two months after the site was first created.

Version 2.0

Argh, the hideous second version. I remember being so excited about this layout to start with (well, I'd have to be, otherwise it would have never hit the 'net) because of the way the middle column adjusted its size depending on the size of the window, making this an 800 x 600 res friendly layout. I added the menu you can see on the left some time after the layout was created and implimented; the boxes changed colour when you hovered over them.
Every page was functional, but the pokedex was absolutely hideous in this version (not to mention more incomplete than the last one) and it was ugly in general, something that only dawned on me after the number of months that made this my longest-lasting layout.

Version 3.0

This was the first version that had Raven: Emerald Fist on a seperate section of the site. The two were connected by the same splashpage we have right now (version 4.0) and, in fact, the layout of the R: EF side was exactly the same as this one too!
      The Janera side of this layout is still quite good in my eyes. The navigation bar, an iframe within a div-positioned table, allowed for me to add/edit links very easily and this was the first time I used CSS, also good for mass-editting. The colouring wasn't harsh on the eyes, the city guide looked best in this version and I thought I'd figured a way to get around Geocities' ads - by saving the documents as .txt!
When I was trying to give Ash Junior some Janeran information and discovered that all he could see was the HTML coding, however, I realised that there was a downside in that, yet again, I'd been thwarted by different browsers. I'd been just starting to wonder about a new layout around then and this was the final push, throwing the Janera League site into its fourth version, at that stage still in beta.

Version 4.0

The current version is mostly made up of div layers, with a bit of SSI thrown in to make the navigation bar easy to edit. I chose not to use CSS for this, for reasons even I don't know, but it's mostly made up of div positioned images so there wasn't much of a point. The main background (Trineth, her ghosted double, the title and the start of the boxes the text fits into) contains a pic I drew for version 1.0 and the whole thing works in 800 x 600 too! If I want to nitpick, the space I can write text into is rather narrow, but that's what comes of formatting for 800 x 600 idiots too. ¬.¬;