AFTERGLARE.COM (formerly afterglare.tk from January - March 2005) was created on March 6, 2005. As of December 2005, after going through a couple of free hosts that ended up disappearing, the site is hosted by Netrillium. They're great, I've had no problems, and their support helpdesk rules. I recommend them.

afterglare is a word in a line of a song entitled "Antifreeze and Aeroplanes" by The Moffatts from the album Submodalities. That's it.

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March 2009 - Present



This layout was made for the site's four year anniversary! It was down for pretty much most of 2008 but when March 09 came around, I decided a new layout was in order to go along with the new one-shot, "If it Means a Lot to You", that I'd posted. The images are from an editorial published in Dazed & Confused, May 2007. I think this is the first time I've had a layout with this much purple - there have been hints of it here and there, but never a main color. Until now. I was really interested in making something that was clean and simple: one image, white background, scroll up and down. Minimalism.

Fifteen: October 2007 - March 2009



The picture in the header was taken by me with my camera on a very interesting day at the beach. It's a long story that I will most likely remember for the rest of my life. Colorized in Photoshop and brushes added and tada, I have a layout! This is my first layout made and coded entirely on a Mac. Do I like this layout? HECK YEAH I DO! The picture is...perfect. It's not Internet Explorer friendly though. Because honestly, if you're still using IE...ughh. I like all the colors. I even really like the font. I like the way everything's organized, too. All the info at the top, content underneath so it doesn't distract you when you're reading something. You can faintly see the phrase "We live in the ocean's brine." taken from the song "Sunburn vs. the Rhinovirus" by the Matches. It just seemed right when I made the layout.

Fourteen: July - October 2007



Finally, after a very long time of taking a break from using my own photos in my layouts, my pictures are back! Every single picture on this layout was taken with my camera and altered slightly in Photoshop, turned into a "Polaroid" and well, that's it really. A couple of various brushes from various places. This layout is kind of unique in that it was coded in two different OSs, two different text editors, two different browsers. I made the switch from Windows to Mac when my new computer arrived halfway through the week I'd begun coding. As far as I know it looks how I want it to as long as you're using Firefox. Sorry IE/Opera/Safari kids. This layout debuts with the final rewrite of OTWD. I've learned that my personal pictures are most suited for this story. I like the yellow. I like it a lot. Doesn't yellow make you happy?

Thirteen: March - July 2007



This layout took me three weeks to make. Yup. Not because it took awhile to make in Photoshop or I lost my mediocre skills, but because I finally decided to understand the eFiction header templates. I'd never gotten it to work before and that frustrated me so I never bothered but this time I wasn't going to let it rest until it worked. So it did :] Not completely fond of the layout image but I like the big capitalized titles and separate boxes. Yay. Definitely the longest I've ever spent on a layout.

Twelve: January - March 2007



Layout made in Photoshop, as always. Images are Natalia Vodianova from W Magazine, December 2004 edition and Huck Magazine Issue #001. I'll let you figure out for yourself who the person from Huck is, 'cause it's really cheesy and lame. You'll laugh. But it was a good picture! Pictures found at Foto Decadent and Watch Shaun, respectively. Brushes from various locations, see credits. The two blended images are mine, taken in Hollywood and the other on the freeway by the Los Angeles skyline. While they may be kind of bad quality, they worked for my layout. Font from Risque.Nu, I believe. As far as I know, it works properly in all Firefox & IE6 based browsers.

Well you know what? I really like it. And it's my first eFiction 3.0 layout. I did okay. Yay me.

Eleven: August - December 2006



Image maps are back!! Something looked missing when I'd finished so I thought, hey, now's a good time to bring back image maps for the navigation. I really like this color scheme. I like the way the font colors go together against the dark grey. The site info panel looks different than the last couple of layouts, and I think for the better. And it works properly in Firefox! Rad.

Ten: June - August 2006



Picture credits go to Foto Decadent and random band pictures I found. The brushes are made by Gender. Can you tell I was lacking creativity? It actually started out original, with a picture I'd taken myself, and this cool gradient. But it wasn't looking anything like I wanted it to. So I changed it. Eh, I was satisfied with the way it looked for the time being.

Nine: March - June 2006



I quite liked this layout. I'd never used yellow as my base color before, and I was glad I'd found a kind of yellow that wasn't completely annoying to the eyes. The main picture was taken with my camera, of my friend and I earlier during the school year, and I always thought that it was a very layout-y picture. Mostly though, you just see his curly hair. This was one of the layouts that, as far as I know, fully functioned in Firefox.

Eight: December 2005 - March 2006



First layout of the New Year. It's the first one using eFiction version 2.0, so I wanted to make it as simple as I could because I was figuring out the new features of the script. It took a whole fifteen minutes in Photoshop. Random pictures from the internet used, except for the bottom right one where Derek Bloom of From First to Last appears. I took that picture with my own camera in the sumer of 2005. Yeah, that's it.

Seven: September - December 2005



I took a picture of myself with a notebook in which I'd written some VB and worked with in in Photoshop. It was the first layout I made that used image maps for the site's navigation.

Six: July - September 2005



My favorite layout I've made for the site thus far. I liked the color coordination and the simplicity. And I also liked that every single picture on it was taken by me. It didn't work properly in Firefox, though.

Five: June - July 2005



A layout made only of brushes.

Four: May - June 2005



Three: April - May 2005



Pictures all miiiine. I was really feeling spring and had to go for all green.

Two: February - March 2005



I used a whole bunch of pictures that I'd taken at a show some friends' ex-band played at. I started using brushes on layouts around this time. This was the last layout made before the site turned into a dot-com.

Brushes, tutorials/resources, patterns, fonts, textures, etc.
(each link will open in a new window)

» Gender @ LJ
» Broken.nu
» 1591 @ LJ
» Ohpistol.org
» Ignite.nu
» Kenekila.net
» Intheorchard.net
» Ex-posed.com
» Foto Decadent
» Kawaiiness.com
» Comotized.com
» WiththeWolves.org
» Braggadocio.org
» FuneralMonster.net
» Vionnet @ Despair.nu
» JuvenileCasualty.net
» Risque.net
» Watch Shaun
» Gasolene.org
» WhenItComes.com
» HeadLock.ws
» Kloud-Nine.com
» Outspoken-Kate.com
» Iconist @ Douxx.com
» HopeDriven.org
» DesignFruit.com

Coding Tools
» Crimson Editor (Windows)
» ColorPic (Windows)
» Smultron (Mac)
» Maxthon Browser (Windows)
» Firefox Browser
» eFiction Support

No credit for something that's yours? E-mail me.