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Overview
The Story Domain is
dedicated to displaying the writings of amateur authors online.
Authors can submit stories, poems, comics, essays, and any
other form of writings that appeals to the public.
If the submitted writing follows the set of guidelines,
then it will most likely be posted up.
Origin
of The Story Domain
The Story Domain
began as a small site called: "The Sci-Fi Story
Domain". It had only 2 stories, Empire's
Descent and Snow.
They were written by my friends. Following their
example, and being influenced by Star Wars, I ambitiously
began to write Strife
In Space. I
soon took an interest in science-fiction, especially when
"Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" came out, and I
had a section
dedicated to the awesome movie. The site overall
looked horrible and within a few weeks, I had it
redesigned. The end result was a site that was much
more suited for a Halloween theme (view
it here). However, the layout was neater and
less colorful than the previous one; and that's what truly
mattered. The
Many Layouts
The Story Domain
was my first successful site. Since it was the only
site that had updated content, I used it as a base for
several of my newest layout creations. Here's a list
of the old layouts and the problems of each:
- 1st Layout - The
color of the pics, links, and text were not consistent
throughout the site. It was green one place,
then yellow the next. It was way too
multi-colored.
- 2nd Layout - It
was basically the same layout but I added buttons to
my site. The site looked better, but it was
still too damn colorful.
- "Halloween"
Layout- I finally learned how to use frames, and implemented
them to the site - one for links, and the other for
content. Navigation became much easier and
everything was more organized. However, the
splash pic was unnecessarily large, and the choice of
color for a story site was no good (black and
green?!?!?).
- "Frames"
Layout- My next layout had four frames. One frame on
the top in order to show off my logo, two others on
the left and right showed the links and polls, and the
main-center frame to display content. The site
looked good, but there were too many damn
frames. How could anyone read 500 words in a
cramped window?
- "Dark"
Layout
- Everything about the site is good except for the
theme and the table sizes. I've been told that
black background should not be used on this type site
and that the page is too big (AOL users had to expand
their window).
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