Another Site Histories article, which means more designs to pluck and pick at. Today we are looking at the archives at a design which was called “Global Theme”. To be honest it wasn’t that global, it just at the time if I decided I was going to make something else, just featured a version of that theme. It also was used on various network.trinest.com or other hub like locations I had at the time, so there’s that too! Oh and I think there might have been some kind of punbb forum attached to this style too at one time.
For the most part this global theme has only been on the trinest.com site. In fact any other project which it was going to attach itself to never really used it. I place the use of this theme simular to the basic simple style I had some time after, as well as Project Soil and I’m probably forgetting another layout too, but the point is, it was a design which it was just easier to port stuff to, rather than making a new design.
The exact era of this design is unknown, but what I do remember is that it was used quite early in 2008, and later again that year and possibly again sometime in 2009.
The most simple of these designs was the blue one, which was going to be used for a fansite of some sort, or something else. All I know is it obviously came after the green one (for the simple fact I wub lime green). I think it is a boring design to talk about, so let’s just talk about the descent into madness this design held, as it went from normal looking to lime. With the lime version with a suitable name called “lime rape”.
Colour direction aside, if we look back at this theme, it probably is one of my favourites I’ve created. For the most part I feel as if the original is pure perfection. With the colours chosen possibly a bit to obscure for some monitors and the coding probably not the best in the world, it does come short to what I could do today, for example the design you are viewing this page in.
However the colour direction cannot be pushed aside, the original while great ended up getting a little bit darker green while the banner tried to become the opposite. With lime becoming more and more common in the design. The end result of course is “Lime Rape”, which the whole theme is pretty much lime of some sort.
The banner while crazy and confusing, as well as possibly acceptable just draws blood from your eyes. Which is one of the reasons the blue theme also ended up been created with the site also flipping back to using the original.
I think I’ve also used this design temporary in recent years. Which shows how dynamic it really is.
Global Theme – Original |
Global Theme – Banner/Image changes |
Global Theme – “Lime Rape” |
Global Theme – Blue |