This is a collection of the old page layouts I have used for Rushita's Room before.  I used to just delete old designs (html files and pictures) from my hard drive after half a year or so, but now I'm starting to save them as screen captures and make a collection of them.  That's because I've spend a lot of effort and time on most layouts and I like every single one I made.  It is such a waste to just trash all the art work.   Yes, I see them all as art work ^^.  I only have a few of the more recent ones and those really old ones are already trashed o.o;;  These layouts witness the development of the page and also the improvement of my html and art skills, and each one tells a different story...  Click on the thumbnails to view the layouts in full-size (quality reduced from the actual original layouts).  They are now arranged in reverse chronological order.
 

Be My Angel - The angel character is from an artbook named "Angel Flavour".  It is a fixed size design, due to time constraint while badly needed a new design ^^;;.  The design is centered on the screen.  The blue beads on the orbits are for navigation, which turns to yellow beads when you mouse-over them.  "Be My Angel" is also the name of the opening theme song of "Angelic Layer".  This layout was used from November 2005 to October 2006.  This is also a complete layout set came with xmb style, LJ style, and wallpaper.

Christmas 2005 - A very simple layout with a photo of my christmas tree ornament.  Due to time constraint, this is only a single page front page layout.  The rest of the site still run on "Forget Me Not".  "Oh Holy Night" is the background music for the layout.  The most important thing is the Christmas message on the layout.

Forget Me Not - This is a flexible layout design, which fits browser size from 800x600 to 1024x768.  Some of the elements of the design shift according to the screen width.  The name of the girl on the layout is "Nayuki", from a game called "Kanon".  Purple/blue haired girl is Rushita's favourite when choosing characters since they represent Rushita to bring out the style and message.  This layout was used for for a long time from September 2004 to October 2005, with the Christmas 2004 and 7th Anniversary layout went in between.  This is a complete layout set came with xmb style, LJ style, and wallpaper.  "Forget Me Not" is named after the purple colour of the design.

7th Anniversary - This layout overlapped with the christmas one.  At some point, the site has both layouts on at the same time and you can flip between the 2 using the text links.  A very pretty image from some anime.  The girl in the image was picked because she somewhat resembles the look and style of Rushita.  Rushita.com came to the 7th year in December 2004 and I thought it would be best to portrait the "Rushita look" on the main image.  Despite the total file size is kinda large, this is one of the most beautiful layout design.  I might come up with a similar design next time.  The hidden mouseover messages on the main image on different pages are: "remember me... like you've always been..." "look at my eyes... and tell me you love me..." "dance with me... until sunset..." "listen with your heart... and see what you believe..."

Christmas 2004 - Again traditional nativity Christmas scene.  Image came from my Precious Moments colouring books.  The main design was actually an old one used before for a previous private web xmas card, this time added the surrounding christmas weath.  The main image is an mouseover one, with the christmas message on a matching image showing up when you mouse over it.  This is a partial layout only for main sections, because I'm actually not very fond of the design.  Nevertheless, the main thing is to get the message across. The layout was up at the same time as the 7th anniversary one.

Flame of Love II 2004 - This is a come back of the same design from 2001.  It is one of my most favourite layout.  When I took it down in 2001, I saved all the files and I knew someday I would put it back up.  I need a little adjustment to the images to make it more centered, and redid the main image so it is actually a better quality then the 2001 version.  Also added the mouseover navigation titles.  This also comes with the whole package with the matching site stuff design, xmb layout and even the livejournal layout.  This layout was used on the first half of 2004.

Christmas 2003 - Traditional nativity Christmas scene.  The main message used the lyrics of the Christmas song, "Mary's Boy Child", to tell the Christmas story.  Javascript image flip is used on the angels for navigation and both mouseover tooltips and alt text are used to display hidden bible verses messages.  The scrolling text used a combination of ilayers and javascript to make it functional on all browsers.  This is not my favourite layout, but nevertheless, got the main component done and the message across.

Take Me to Happiness - The layout on second half of 2003.  This is an image I scanned from my Clover manga.  I like Suu and her wings, so I decided to cropped out her image and the birdies to make a wallpaper out of it.    The wallpaper soon turned into this layout.  The layout is designed for min. 800px width with extra fill-in background image on the right side for bigger screen.  However, since the navigation is on the left side (to stay away from the pretty picture), the layout seems to be tilted on the left when it is viewed on bigger screem.  The matching wallpaper is more evenly distribuited without the site text and the consideration of flexible screen width.  The background colour wasn't supposed to be as minty on the original file, but somehow it shows up a slightly different colour on the web.   Again, the site pages were redone with matching heading images and also matching message board theme.  The error 404 image was a hand-drawn 4 leaf clover with barcode text to match the style of the manga.

Angel Wings - The layout on first half of 2003.  This is an image from X.  I wasn't familiar with the anime, but this is a pretty picture.  I hand drew the ends of her hair to restore what is missing due to the edge of the original image.  It was done so well that the resultant picture looks so complete.  The layout is designed for min. 800px width with extra fill in background image on the left side for bigger screen.  I quickly fell in love with this layout and its colours and this is one of my top 3 most favourite layouts.  The site pages were redone with matching heading images and also matching message board theme.  I later also made a wallpaper out of it because the image is so beautiful and so suitable for a layout.  Originally I was going to use a different blue-tone image also from X, but that one took too much time and work to restore the image.  So, I used this one instead.  The blue-tone image was used as error 404 splash image instead.

Hope 2002.  The 2nd layout on a new server.  It was no longer summer and time to change layout.  Before making a normal layout, it needed to  make one for Christmas first.  Again, I used simple and traditional Christmas scene, and a Christmas message is a must ^^.  I like how the blue/purple colour changing gradually from top to bottom.  To add a special touch, I used a javascript for mouseover on the stars which are the navigation menu.  When you put your mouse over a star, it will show you what the link is.  As always, Christmas carols are needed.  I picked 5 favourite Christmas carols and 5 favourite bible versus to put one of each on each navigation page.  There is also a new matching board theme for my new xmb forum.  And as always, my layouts are designed for min. 800 px width screne but still looks right on wider screnes.

Midsummer Starfruit Festival 8.0.  This layout is put up in August.  I bought a CD rom with interesting fruit pictures, so I thought it would be fun to make a totally different layout.  This starfruit layout is like ice in hot summer.  It just looks so cool and fresh.  Starting from this layout, the site is re-catergorized into different section, like a real collective site.  Site overall is more consistent in layout and the index main theme actually applies to most pages except some that are separate section on their own.  It is a simple layout with simple navigation.  Starting from this layout, the site has a sitemap.  Time to get a site map so people don't get lost in my complicated site :p.  Layout is up from August to November 2002.

Lady of Dream, once again I stopped using verison number for some reason ^^;;  I browsed the net to look for image for xq's blog and found this image which I liked so much.  I knew I must make a layout out of it but it is too feminine for xq's blog and not his style.  So I ended up turning it into a layout for Rushita.com.  The original image is duo tone but in purple.  I turned it into light blue and light blue looks very good on white.  This image looks a bit dreamy, so I named it "Lady of Dream", after a Hitaro song of the same name.  Again I tried to make the layout flexible width fading the image into the blue background on the right.  The navigation is reverted back to simple icons on the left.  It is still my style to keep the layout as simple and clean as possible.  This layout was used from April to August 2002.

Flame of Love,  a Fushigi Yuugi layout.  This is the one I used for the 2nd half of 2001 and 1st quarter of 2002, before and after the Christmas layout.  Still very much like Miaka, Tamahome and Suzaku, this was made about the same time the Suzaku wallpaper was done.  This layout has a flexible white border that will extent according to the browser window width.  It is desiged for 800 pixels and above width.  This is one of my most favourite layout.  I love the orange-firey-red colour on the image and the text.  It goes with black background so well.  And this time the links are done by text with description on the side too, so no more complaint can't navigate the site! ^^  Starting from this layout, matching error404 pages, matching general background for site stuff are also made.