Past designs

I'm notorious for redesigning my website

Rather than be ashamed of this tendency, I'm trying to embrace it. Welcome to my gallery of page designs. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I made them.

2025

I was tired of using shapes and colors like a cudgel. I have been wanting to make a modern two color design for a long time. Going from over a dozen colors to just two makes it a lot easier to make page-specific themes, like for my new shrines.

2024

Slime mode was super fun, but I was just tired of not having enough green on the page. This design was inspired by the Sprite Vanilla Frost soda can design.

This was the final form of slime mode, my attempt at making my website feel more fun. I still really like how this theme looks, but it's just not green enough for me.

This design coincided with my 24/7 use of Night Mode. The warmer screen tone feels quite comfortable on my eyes in comparison to the harsh blues I was used to.

Inspired by fancy gelato pictures, I wanted to make something soft and airy. My previous design had many lines and sections, so I wanted to simplify things.

The love child of Windows Aero, the Wii, and stripes! This design is really fun, but the white felt overbearing, especially on mobile. There wasn't much interest besides the background, which bothered me. I'm still proud of the fade out half boxes I came up with for adding texture to the page.

Maximal boxes. Boxes inside of boxes. Wild textures. Gradients providing depth. A gorgeous color scheme inspired by one of my favorite Destiny 2 shaders. This was super fun, and a great showcase for my candy.css library.

2023

I needed a new theme to match my brand new neon green hair. I still like this one a lot. I wish it had more gree, but the purple is very nice and the neon green really pops against it.

2022

Ugh, this looked a lot better in dark mode. The light mode green background is so pale and sickly. It looked quite good in dark mode where I could use a richer green. I think this theme is a perfect example of how you need to be creative when switching between dark and light themes, unless you only use neutral colors.

2021

Technically using 1bit-ui, I added lots of extra colors to this page. The fancy cards look cool, especially alongside the pixel art portrait I made, but it's an idea that was only half heartedly implemented.

2020

This design still looks really cool to me, though the amount of green is basically zero! This was my first design to include a dark mode, which I thought looked really nice. I waited 5 years to use a serif font again, lol.

2018

I got this cute art commissioned from a friend for my business card. I liked it so much I put it on my website. I think it was a bit too large on the page though.

2017

Wow, this sure was white. I copied the Material Design SCREAMING LABELS trend (ew, yuck, this was so awful). I unnecessarily made the nav bar look like tabs including active state (I was proud of this, though). I like the fun background color on the links, and my pixel art self portrait.

2016

Not much to see here. It was more of a digital business card. The design looked good on mobile but awkward on desktop.

2015

Ten years later I can really see how I've grown with respect to typography and layout design. This is kind of a mess, though it's information dense and easy to understand, I think.

2014

I do not miss the days of pencil thin fonts that are totally unreadable. Apparently I thought to use one here. The bold and low contrast links kinda bother me. Underlines aren't scary, but I think a lot of people (including me) thought they were back then.

2013

Despite also having a resume linked in PDF format, this is basically just an HTML resume. It's quite boring, but it's pretty effective. Using the accent color for both links and headings is really confusing, but I can tell I was trying to zhuzh up the main page a bit. Also, jump scare seeing the ghostly "Projects" text that's basically zero contrast lol. The extremely dense text probably felt better on smaller screens of the era, but hey, I tried!