History

© 1999-2009 / Updated April '08


2007-2008, I have also been working on the new design for the Polish Outpost of the 501st Legion, as a member of the group as well, I am volunteering my efforts and hope my contribution will help the group.
2007, this design I had made for a photography group in Poland. It was at this time that my practice with CSS coding was paying off. The menu on the left was fixed as well was the group icon in the bottom left corner fixed to the browser window. The main title image was fixed centered as a background image and I had learned some nice codes for mozilla to create curved frames The page title was margined to the right and the section title was margined to the left, this was
2006, designed another layout for the Otaku group, this was probably my last purely html coding before I caught on to CSS. I had focused on creating a well framed title bar wich was both compact and practical. A simle design was implimented to the menu icons. Aswell the framing was set for varied browser sizes. THe menu fixed to the right and the Title placed centered in the table cell on the left. Seperating the two boxes gave it the option for frames if the group would choose to have the title and menu fixed at the top of the window.
in order to expriment with curved box edges,I had ended up making this retarded blue scheme, which could have been better done in css coding, and that's what I'm trying to fix. For now we have a simple layout implementing color boxes and borders. Hopefully we won't have to come again to this past trash. The table was fixed in size and the contrast was not great enough.
My following design for the Otakus had been experimental for frame style. The Intention of this layout was the varied browser sizes. Again with simple html, the section titles and menu icons where all icons created in Photoshop. There was some complaint about the difficulty of page adjustment withtout the original psd files for the icon references.
2004, this design was made with simple html, intended for and used by the Otaku Animé of Concordia University. It stood for over two years and was commented in its first ear by NewType Magazine as "Beautifully Designed". The menu was obvious and contrasting to it's gradient background by having gradient text foreground. The mascot displayed was extracted from the original black and white sketches provided by the group. The document layout was then agreed on to be a single center section instead of being split in two columns.
When 2003/ 2004 came around, I had the opertunity to obtain my own domain name, nalafontaine.com as many of you might know.
For 2004 I had given a more compact menu with the old red and blue colours in a folder like layout. It had at first a large title bar and a menu to the left side of the screen remaining in the same page. Then as more subjects came along, I had placed the comic titles at the top underneath the title bar in a horizontal fashion. and then I had reduced the size of the title bar. Later on, converging the menu into the title bar as it had been for 2004 and 2005.
Earlier on before the new server, I had used freehosting from Geocities and from Angelfire.
the later years, I had adopted better sense of html coding and layout design.

my homepage had become more varied for the type of drawings that I did, and I had started to linka few places that I had come to know from being in Montreal. I had taken a couple of computer classes by that point and wanted to demosntrate coding skills for my portfolio for Concordia.
In the latest months of coding, I had also been occupied with creating a font for my Crossroad Infinity story. This had lead me to recreate the whole style for it's main page, accessable soon, we all hope.
When I had started making the page for the new story, I had used some of the premier drawings and some simple design. Unaware, I had made it difficult for a friend of mine to look at the page since he had epilepsy. Bright colours and flashing lights would have knocked out cold.
My main story, Neo-Species... kind of why I had the idea of making a website in the first place. I am currently content with version 6, as demonstrated here.

My coding had improved a lot and I had fixed the slight flaws I had experienced in the past. Making all but the little button images as one still jpg, yes that is mostly just one jpg. and I had tweeked the marquee to scroll in the place I wanted it to. Learning table frames took a while.
I previously had the title of the story as a seperate image, making a gif, that apparently doesn't look that good, stand above the selection menu. I rather liked the idea of a graphic background for the index menu.
Sometimes, you start to learn something really neat, like image mapping... sometimes it works... but for this instance, it was not the very best of ideas. I was learning proper html coding while making version4.0 of the Neo-Species webpage.