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Cracked Skull Designs: ~2004-2005

Cracked Skull Designs was the first site I'd ever "done". This was back WAY before I knew any sort of coding/programming and was pretty much lost in a sea of a language I couldn't understand for the life of me. One of the crowning achievements I had on this project was the forum, I made my own buttons for my InvisionFree forum and felt the urge to show the board off to the whole world. Advertising where I could, I soon became disinterested with the site when I realized I couldn't upload my signatures (I did not know how to use FTP at this point), or make an HTML page to display them. There was a good long break while I honed my skills and switched gears from the difficult art of signature designing to the world of web design, a change I have never regretted. Inevitably, Cracked Skull Designs never made it to a fully functional site. The concept design is avalilable below, bear in mind, though, it is the first web design piece I ever created.

CSD Concept #2

Metrostation6.org: ~2006

The first real website, and the first time I'd ever had 'real' webspace to work with. I won the hosting package and domain in a web design contest on a now defunct forum community, oddly enough from the same company who currently hosts this site. I had freedom, I had the urge to learn, and so I created 2 versions of the site before the year long hosting package expired (since I only utilized the site after about 7 months of having it, I was racing against the clock to get it done in time). The original design was an old-ish design from back when slicing and tables were the wave of the future. The design was already sliced, poorly as my skills at that were never great, so all I had to do was hyperlink the images to pages. The design was very static, so it had to go. In it's stead, I wrote up an entirely CSS based layout so I could include dynamic content without totally buggering up the whole site. With the help of Blue Robot, a great resource for free CSS based layouts, I had a site again. However, since it took many months to get to this stage I was now without hosting again, and I lapsed back into signature designing for a few more months while making the odd web template. A year would go by before the incarnation you see before you, one only wonders now what the future will hold for viStyle.net.

Metrostation6.org v1
Metrostation6.org v2
Metrostation6.org v1 Forum Skin

viStyle.net: ~2007

viStyle.net is the culmination of my experience as a both a designer and a programmer. It is the current pinnacle of my talent and devotion to this art. Creating this site was indeed a learning experiece, but it is just the first step in a long road ahead of me towards my ultimate goal of working as a freelance web designer. I hope you enjoy this site and it's content as much as I do.

Future major upgrades will make the site more user friendly and have greater user interactivity. The biggest this to look forward to is the forum, which is currently in phase 1 of 3.