Layout: Starlight Pops v3.0
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Click each thumbnail for a full view of the screenshot. These screenshots were taken using IE6 and an 800x600 resolution.
Above are screenshots that show the design of each major subsection of the site. Please forgive the awful dithering in all of these screenshots; the actual designs themselves used top-quality graphics. Which was problematic in the end, because all those graphics just ended up using up too much bandwidth.
This layout was up for 3/4 of a year, from August 2002 to May 2003. The text-based portions of the site (the Melody, Harmony, and Rhythym sections) used doujinshi images and a tables layout fixed at a width of 750 pixels. The multimedia portions of the site (the Accompaniment and Live Concert sections) used liquid tables that fit any resolution. BTW, this layout was the first layout I made using PHP includes. It made switching the layout again later much, much easier.
As much as I loved these designs, the greatest flaw with the overall layout scheme was that it was too graphics-intensive. Some of the Harmony and Melody subpages used 80 KB of graphics per page. When Starlight Pops started becoming more popular and consuming more bandwidth than I could afford, I knew that it was time to make a new layout. Also, I received several comments that it was disconcerting to have the layout change so drastically between the different sections of the site, which is certainly true, so I vowed to make the different subsections of the site more uniform the next time I designed a layout for Pops.
