Trip Down Memory Lane

Jun3, 2008

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...

cloudy skies layout

old layout 1

old layout 2

old layout 3

old tutorialtastic layout

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:

old layout 4

old layout 5

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There are currently 47 approved responses to "Trip Down Memory Lane".

Rachael 03/06/08 at 20:22 #

Oh wow! I don't remember any of those layouts at all, but some of them are pretty scary! :o
Aisling 03/06/08 at 20:26 #

I remember none of them. :P Before August, I had no clue who you were. :)
Maz 03/06/08 at 20:28 #

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.
Jem 03/06/08 at 20:30 #

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 ;)
Amelie 03/06/08 at 20:41 #

I remember all of those. I rule.
Sarah 03/06/08 at 20:59 #

I remember these. :D
Jenny 03/06/08 at 20:59 #

I think the first layout here was the first time I actually discovered CS Reviews. D:
Vera 03/06/08 at 21:05 #

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 I still like it, and if I'd see it anywhere I wouldn't consider it outdated at all :)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.
Stepherz 03/06/08 at 22:31 #

I think you've always been ultimately better than everyone. If I dug out my old layouts... people might die of heart attacks.
Annie 03/06/08 at 22:56 #

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...
Arwen 03/06/08 at 23:06 #

Haha, I don't recall any of those. Your old layouts are definitely better than my old layouts.
Katy 03/06/08 at 23:21 #

yup, all of these (and I can vaguely recall some even older variants of "cloudy skies")
also wooo CSR! hehe
Dee 03/06/08 at 23:36 #

Oh man, those are truly works of art, dude.
Makes me nostalgic for *sniff sniff* simpler times. ♥
Stephanie 03/06/08 at 23:46 #

I remember them all.
Along with a few from "Cloudy Skys."
(and anybody who is anybody knows that isn't a typo.)
Julie 03/06/08 at 23:56 #

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?
Lydia 04/06/08 at 00:03 #

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.
Belinda 04/06/08 at 01:11 #

Hee, I remember many of these layouts. You've come such a long way Jem, in terms of coding AND design!
Lene 04/06/08 at 01:48 #

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.
Aimée 04/06/08 at 01:50 #

I remember the Cloudy Skies ones, but none of the others...
Rose 04/06/08 at 02:56 #

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.
O geekyness.
kelsey 04/06/08 at 02:58 #

lol, i don't really remember any of those.
Megan 04/06/08 at 03:03 #

I don't remember any but I love the "old layout 3" one!
What's with the coconut and pineapple? ;P
Bobbi-lee 04/06/08 at 03:12 #

I love the "all about Karl" "all about me" links! haha
Cristina 04/06/08 at 03:25 #

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
Amanda 04/06/08 at 03:31 #

I remember them all except for the Cloudy Skies...I think I came to JJB just after you got out of that phase?
Chantelle 04/06/08 at 04:04 #

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.
Britney 04/06/08 at 04:15 #

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.
Vera 04/06/08 at 04:32 #

I don't remember the Cloudy Skies ones though. When were they up?
Mumblies 04/06/08 at 06:15 #

I remember them too,but then I am Jem's biggest fan :) Why change it? I like how it is now.
Lil 04/06/08 at 08:12 #

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.
Jem 04/06/08 at 08:20 #

I don’t remember the Cloudy Skies ones though. When were they up?
Those in particular would have been late 2003 -- early 2004.
Shelly 04/06/08 at 09:08 #

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 :)
Amber 04/06/08 at 09:59 #

(Somewhat sadly) I remember all of those, bar the 'oh dear' ones. :P
Enzo 04/06/08 at 11:12 #

I would never look at you the same way again...
Carly 04/06/08 at 12:04 #

I remember them all apart from the stone which, which is my favorite actually.
Carly 04/06/08 at 12:04 #

Appologies, I think it's a acorn...not a stone.
Jem 04/06/08 at 12:28 #

It's an apple and a pine cone. ;)
Stephanie 04/06/08 at 14:35 #

I always knew it was a pine cone, could never figure out the apple part. Looks rather long and skinny to be an apple.
Robbie 04/06/08 at 14:37 #

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.
Erin 04/06/08 at 14:38 #

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?
Christina 04/06/08 at 16:14 #

Haha, I lol'd. Some of those are pretty hilarious. I actually like the first one, though.
Angela 05/06/08 at 00:59 #

Haha! I remember them all. How sad is that =x!
Jenny 06/06/08 at 14:59 #

I remember some of those. xD Wow.
Christine 07/06/08 at 16:47 #

The definitely pre-date me but i just love the pine cone one. The colors are fabulous. ^^
Regina 21/06/08 at 17:02 #

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. ;]
Emily 20/07/08 at 08:33 #

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.)
Kenna 10/08/08 at 04:24 #

*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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