Past Dork Dimension Designs

Since the Dork Dimension has gone through a few design revisions, I thought I'd archive past Dork Dimension designs. I like to keep screenshots of past graphics and website designs so that I have a full history of the design process.

Overall Website Design

The initial design - Feb. 2009
I was just getting my feet wet with the Blogger CSS template designer. The graphics are pretty primitive, but I like the different stuff happening in the logo.



May 2009
Here I went for a metallic theme that worked out pretty well. Originally, I wanted the metal to be the hull of the Enterprise (displaying the 1701 serial number et al) but I wasn't able to reduce the Enterprise background to a reasonable file size, so I opted to make it a generic metallic background. It's kind of a cool idea and I really like how the 3-dimensionality of the logo turned out, but it ultimately didn't go well with the initial space/inter-dimension concept for the site.


August 2009
Unlike the previous design, I really played up the space theme here. I love the hyperspace in the logo and the glowing text kind of has a Tron-like effect. And because I started to convey news items through Twitter, I wanted to prominently feature my Twitter account in the right-hand column.

Miscellaneous Graphics

I created a Dork Dimension banner to put in my signature for online forums. This was my first banner reflecting the initial design of the site.



This was an extremely short-lived banner based on my Armodoc illustration. I like the banner, but ultimately there was too little space that I could devote to the illustration so I retired it early.



Blowing-up sprites from vintage video games is always fun.