Dragon Ball Z: Renewed Faith had a very long and interesting history, especially early on. Originally the RPG was being developed exclusively by Saiyen who one day in the Create chatroom took part in a lengthy discussion about how a true DBZ should be made, which led myself to becoming co-designer of the RPG. We really hyped RF up a lot, and we gained a lot of attention, some of it not so good. The original design, which is much like this one, was based off a Trigun Project Seeds layout I never used, just with the banner swapped out. However this bad attention led us to move the site to a .com. That’s what this version of the RF layout is, complete with dated fusion news installed and some other poorly conceived .com stuff. In the end we ended up moving it back to MSN Groups where it fared much better than on the .com. This layout was created completely in Adobe Photoshop 7.0, and is pretty simple really.

I promised before when I posted my Beauty Inside submission that I would later post some of the other things I did with it. The most notable is this layout for Synthetic Art. At the time this was probably my boldest attempt at leaving MSN Groups for a true .com. SynArt was a step along with many of my pals from create to get out there (this happening right after our group Createv2 was hacked and taken over). Overall it really did ok, a lot of the members from MSN Groups followed us to the forums at SynArt and all in all while we were there it was a good time. However, work in the .com was hard and while I had previous experience this was the first time I was really trying to do more than I understood. I spent a lot of hours during this time playing around with php code snippets, installing software, etc and it allowed me to build up enough skill that later on down the road I would be able to build dbzrenewedfaith.com and then after the closing of MSN Groups my crowning achievement CPN. Stylistically it’s a pretty simple layout, but very clean, it would go on to be used again for Pokemon Concept.

Ah good old Cyberpunk Nexus, the biggest, more daring thing I ever did online. For those of you who are unaware of what CPN was, here’s a small history lesson. In 2008 MSN announced that their Groups service would be closing. For many of us, me included, MSN Groups had been a home where we hosted our RPGs. With Groups out of the picture we were going to have to find a new home. I thought it would be a good idea to build that home myself. CPN ended up being a 2 year venture and for a good while a very successful one. This layout was launched with the site and served as our theme for the first year before all the true work was done to automate everything and which came with a new design. In the end this is probably my most detailed and best done layout. There are many versions and so much work into it, more than a screenshot can capture, that’s for sure.

In keeping with my attempts to keep this archive updated on a daily basis (As of right now it will just be screen captures of layouts until I get the archive section of the site up and running where I will be able to archive HTML pages, images, RP Threads, etc) I decided added the original Dystopia Productions layout to the image archive would be a good choice for today. I was really fond of this layout when I created it, and I guess I still am, I hate to see it go but the change is needed.
 
This Layout holds a important place in my history, being the corner stone to a place where I did actually manage to create the framework and host a RPG that ran for enough time for me to have enjoyed RPing there. Hopefully more times like that will happen here on DysPro, time will tell.