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I did matching layout styles for six of my sites (kinda went overboard LOL):

WithinMyWorld.org Links (which I just realized I forgot to link on the current layout D:)
Robin's Favorite Video Games
A Little British TV Shows Fansite
College Knowledge
Robin's Webdesign Help
Disguises (layout archive)

I went with the same "fixed left sidebar, scrolling right column" layout design and just changed the sidebar colors, text colors, etc. for each site. I like how it turned out, but I may not keep this style of layout for ALL of the sites...still thinking on that. It works great for my links site, college knowledge, layout archive, etc., but the two "one-page shrines" sites may need a revamp. xD

I am now kind of doing "matching" layouts for my AC Series shrine, as I am crazy enough to make a layout per series LOL. The only thing that will change in them will be the header and the colors, but the structure and the css will be the same <o<

Not really, I admire those who can do it, but I want to make so many different things and I'd feel too bad about "wasting" a chance to have a different layout, heh. And actually, if I have sites about subjects that are related one to the other, I try to make the layouts as different as possible because the subjects are already similar anyway, so some of the written content might be a bit repeated (see my Quake 3 sites).

dubiousdisc wrote:Not really, I admire those who can do it, but I want to make so many different things and I'd feel too bad about "wasting" a chance to have a different layout, heh. And actually, if I have sites about subjects that are related one to the other, I try to make the layouts as different as possible because the subjects are already similar anyway, so some of the written content might be a bit repeated (see my Quake 3 sites).

I can actually understand that. When I do it, it's generally for a purpose. For example, I want my collective and fanlistings collective to run seamlessly. Although they are divided and separated for organizational purposes, I like how it feels like one big network since they have the matching, themed looks. I'll probably do this for these sites' lifetime. When I change one layout, I'll change both, and have similar looks to run the two collectives together.

I once made four layouts for one of my now-defunct sites and each layout represented one of the characters against one of the seasons. It was the first time I tried skinning my site via PHP.

Very cool, Momo! I attempted doing site skins one time with disastrous results, but I think now that I understand PHP a bit better, I might try it again.

Which characters did you use, if you remember? *curious*

Oh, I've done this! I always think it's a really neat thing to do and would like to do it again sometime.

Back in the day when I first made Asunder I had made a shrine also to another spirit of the game called Rempo. I had made them matching layouts but Rempo's was fire-themed (since he's the fire spirit) and Ur's was lightning but they both were designed to look like old, torn pages from a book. And the only difference really was the color scheme.

Unfortunately, I felt that Rempo's site (I forget the title ATM) was not as inspired so I took it down. Maybe there are more themed layouts in the near future??