This layout was a special one, a very special one. Up until this point, most of my layouts had been pretty bad (not that this one isn’t by today’s standards) but when I made this layout and uploaded it to DeviantART I found it got a lot of attention (at least for me, lol) which was a big surprise. Again up until now I hadn’t really done any wallpapers or much in the way of actual art, none of us were very good, this was the beginning of everything to come. The first challenge after making it, was to code it on MSN Groups. That was not easy in 2004, I was better than most everyone else on Groups at HTML but I still sucked and it was a real challenge making this look like it did in my design, but I pulled it off. Sad to say that AD was pretty much going downhill by that point, the split had already happened and the site didn’t last that much longer. Still, this was an important layout, it will always hold a special place for me.

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.