01
skipping all the "learning to design" garbage; originally
was to be a video game podcast; never live
02
perhaps we need not look too hard at some of these earlier
designs; never live
03
when the site was to focus on game commentary; this one
was live, but never really advertised; taken offline quickly
04
at about this point in time, anime is drawing my attention
away from video games; never live
05
"stop! you're at the back of the blog", for here the plan was
to redesign weaker anime arc-by-arc; never live
06
inspired by danny choo's site at the time; an overloaded site
to cover airing series, news, reviews, etc; never live
07
1st live version w/ real live visitors; includes a schedule of
airing anime w/ links to op/ed, wiki info, mal, ann; also a
searchbox for anime blogs across the 'sphere; slick shit
08
2nd live version; designed for the removal of the anime
schedule (got lazy; didn't want to update); pics get pulled
to the left of the post; still pretty nice
09
3rd live version; dropped the blogosphere search (lazy,
again); a bit simple and clean, but not devoid of style
10
no images, only text on the homepage; an attempt to make
a minimalist index look decent; never live
11
refined from actual 4th live version; designed to contain
home + archive in 1 page; attempt to reverse minimalism
gone too far in removal of images from the index
12
designed before 4th version; based off of #06 above, scaled
down; couldn't justify the layout at the time, even if it was
better looking than the design at the time; never live
13
simply dicking around w/ design; an episodic blog based
off of #07 above; never live
14
designed as a counter to my preference for free flowing
white background no image minimalism; never live
15
knockoff of some tumblr design; uber minimalist; at this
point, no actual blogging is occurring; never live
16
an attempt to relaunch + get me back in the game; harkens
back to the older live designs; never live
17
designed for sexy large pictures that don't need to be
precisely at the top of the post; never live
18
designed for the ipad, in which it appears on the screen just
like the image is cropped here; never live
19
two column magazine styled layout for lots and lots of text;
built w/ long essays in mind; never live
20
5th live version; what you see on the site today; no pic
because no style; text and only text; needed a non-style
so that the text would be free for any style; the goal is to
simply write and worry about nothing else
a note from an old post that chronicled these various site
incarnations:
"i like web design. it's a nice hobby. passes the time until
godot arrives. i've redesigned lohp enough times that
you could say that i do it often. so often, that when mono
no aware recommended my blog, icystorm tweeted in
response that he had commented here before but
strangely couldn't remember the site; that's because i
had redesigned it twice since his last comment."
i've written less than 100 posts for this site, and we're
looking at 20 unique designs here; you do the math
and now i simply write (or not)
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