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.

September 2010

This design is kind of like August 2009 2.0. The overall design is the same, but there are a few tweaks here and there. First, not only did I improve the hyperspace effect and change the text font in the logo, but I also added an action figure to the logo to show visitors that this is a primarily toy-driven website. The idea is to switch up the figure in the logo every once in a while to keep things fresh. I also added a substantially darker and bolder header background for the post titles, and started experimenting with logos for specific topics, like the Star Trek: TNG Action Figure Archive.

Prior to June 2011

And here is August 2009 3.0. It's pretty much the same as 2.0, but I started using deviantArt to showcase my artwork, so I added a thumb and a link to the most recent art. I also added an image rotator that randomly rotated different versions of the logo featuring 10 different toys.

Banner Logos

This logo shows the Twilight Zone look and feel that I was going for in the first version of the site design.

This banner features the first "warping effect" that I employed in my logos.

And here's the second version of the warping effect. I'm not sure which is my favorite, they both are cool in their own way, I think.

Mini Banners

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.