Jun3, 2008
Trip Down Memory Lane
I'm sat here digging through my old folders in a desperate attempt to find a half-finished layout or two that would be decent enough to give my website a fresh look without appearing obviously dated, and what should I happen across but a bunch of old layouts from my various sites. Some of these date back eons, have a look and see how many you remember...





Of course, now I'm going to have to dig out my back-up CDs and see what else I can find...
Oh dear oh dear
I found more:


Comments
There are currently 47 approved responses to "Trip Down Memory Lane".
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Oh wow! I don't remember any of those layouts at all, but some of them are pretty scary! :o
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I remember none of them. :P Before August, I had no clue who you were. :)
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I like the header for TutorialTastic, even if I can't work out what's on it (staplers?). I don't remember any of them either, except maybe the green Jemjabella one.
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That's a few sticks of RAM Maz - probably one of the most overused images in my entire 'library'. It's been in about 6 different layouts of mine ;)
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I remember all of those. I rule.
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I remember these. :D
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I think the first layout here was the first time I actually discovered CS Reviews. D:
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I have never seen the one with the pineapple. The rest I remember quite well. I think that the second was the one I first saw jemjabella (er well jemology) with. I still like it, and if I'd see it anywhere I wouldn't consider it outdated at all :)
Ah... now you've made me nostalgic as well.
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I think you've always been ultimately better than everyone. If I dug out my old layouts... people might die of heart attacks.
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Didn't read blogs then so I don't recognise any of them. I like the CS Reviews one though. :)
Saying that I might have come across the bright blue and pink Tutorialtastic layout...
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Haha, I don't recall any of those. Your old layouts are definitely better than my old layouts.
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yup, all of these (and I can vaguely recall some even older variants of "cloudy skies")
also wooo CSR! hehe
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Oh man, those are truly works of art, dude.
Makes me nostalgic for *sniff sniff* simpler times. ♥
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I remember them all.
Along with a few from "Cloudy Skys."
(and anybody who is anybody knows that isn't a typo.)
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Mmm I think I remember 3 of them. Haven't been stalking...er I mean, visiting here for that long.
The first one looks nice, but it would need a bit of change in some of the colors, I think. And BellaBook is THAT old?
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I don't remember any of them, as I'm a relatively new visitor to your website. But as far as peoples' past layouts go, yours aren't nearly as bad as others that I've seen. In fact, they're quite decent.
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Hee, I remember many of these layouts. You've come such a long way Jem, in terms of coding AND design!
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I remember CSR, but I didn't know you were behind it!
I don't remember the rest of the layouts, probably because I wasn't a frequent visitor of this site.
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I remember the Cloudy Skies ones, but none of the others...
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I remember all of them except the one of the weird fruit photo thing. All about the girl.
and maybe the cloudy skies ones. I remember visiting your site on and off back then, but I never looked at it often enough to memorize how the layouts looked.
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lol, i don't really remember any of those.
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I don't remember any but I love the "old layout 3" one!
What's with the coconut and pineapple? ;P
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I love the "all about Karl" "all about me" links! haha
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When going through my old designs sometimes I don't know what's scarier: the design or the horrid, unorganized code. I look at it and go, "Gah if only I had found Jem sooner and her philosophies on valid code." XD
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I remember them all except for the Cloudy Skies...I think I came to JJB just after you got out of that phase?
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I don't remember you :P But I've been around this community since '99, so some of those layouts look familiar. I know that I've seen that last one before.
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I like the 4th layout, but most of the rest are pretty lulzy. I like looking back at my old layouts too (you can see them on my site). They are even worse.
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I don't remember the Cloudy Skies ones though. When were they up?
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I remember them too,but then I am Jem's biggest fan :) Why change it? I like how it is now.
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Isn't memory lane a wonderful place? I must post some of my old embarassing layouts. The text in the second screendump is priceless by the way.
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I don’t remember the Cloudy Skies ones though. When were they up?
Those in particular would have been late 2003 -- early 2004.
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Unrelated to this post.. but I LOVE your cat fudge!! And Hex!!
And it was probably a while ago now.. but hopefully you have/will call the RSPCA. That house sounds horrible.
I'm glad you saved Fudge though :) -
(Somewhat sadly) I remember all of those, bar the 'oh dear' ones. :P
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I would never look at you the same way again...
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I remember them all apart from the stone which, which is my favorite actually.
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Appologies, I think it's a acorn...not a stone.
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It's an apple and a pine cone. ;)
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I always knew it was a pine cone, could never figure out the apple part. Looks rather long and skinny to be an apple.
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I remember all of those, accepting the two green ones. I doubt you still have it or know where it would be if you did, but perhaps my favorite layout ever was your pixel version of Cloudy Skys/Cloudy Skies (I think it was one of the incorrectly spelled versions) with a pixel art sun and clouds.
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I remember first finding you through link hopping when you had a blue layout similar to the Cloudy Skies at the bottom. I think it was QBee related, although it's been a long time so I can't remember. It's kind of shocking how far we've come, eh?
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Haha, I lol'd. Some of those are pretty hilarious. I actually like the first one, though.
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Haha! I remember them all. How sad is that =x!
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I remember some of those. xD Wow.
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The definitely pre-date me but i just love the pine cone one. The colors are fabulous. ^^
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I don't remember most of them but you sure have improved a lot since you made those layouts! =) I'm sure 5 years from now when I look back at my layouts I'll think the same. ;]
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When did you have the pine cone layout up? I don't remember that one, but I definitely know the rest. I also vaguely remember the layout you had up when I first visited your site (I think it was yellow and included a lion - if my brain isn't completely making this up). You should make a reconstruction & post that!
(Woah, this post is from early June. I hope you don't mind the crazily late comment.)
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*lurking*
Awww, the good ole days. <3 Remember them all, of course. I wish I still had any of mine, all bye-bye! I hope Karl & the furry beasts are doing lovely just as I imagine you to be doing. <3Jem, miss you!
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