Previous Site Layouts Fifth Voyager has changed layouts so many times it may be hard to remember the previous ones. Most of the site's original layouts have been kept on my hard drive (a while ago most of them were lost), so for the curious people here are screenshots to laugh at, or even to be afraid of.

The Fifth Voyager Magazine (click here to skip to the official site ones, this part is quite lengthily) Before Aggressions was any bigger than two pages of script in a notebook (yes, script), before James and Jessie were only just characters called Steve and Tani (I'm not joking ^_^) in a series I thought up and had to abandon called Kidz Trek (or just Team Rocket in Pokémon meh, names wise really, character wise they're just like those two I named), and before I purchased Web Express and used Microsoft Publisher 97 to create websites, there was the FV Magazine. It was sometime in 2000 and I had just created another idea for a Voyager series. I remember sitting in my room with my current best friend (creator of Dimension 5.2 and was going to be the second writer for one of our previous ideas for the series: random "episodes" that focused on the time travel), I still had the character of Kiara in my head from, again Kidz Trek, Morgan (not sure if she had that name then though) and original episode parodies in my head. Episodes were being listed, then there was the old episode ideas for the unnamed series with the two in. Next thing I know (or in other words the next thing I remember involving FV) the site I was making to house all of the Voyager fics we were creating (and Vulpix's "Tragedy") was getting a new sub-section: The FV Magazine. The previous Voyager fics were immediately put into the background, (permanently so it would seem) and the sub section soon become a site of it's own. It was going to be the official site for the series I thought would be doomed like the previous ones.. I didn't think six or so years later I'd be still doing it. I'm not sure when it happened but the Magazine was dumped for the actual official site which was released with Aggressions Part 1 on Monday, the 4th December 2000. The Magazine was soon revived as an unofficial fan-type site for fun, but was run by me at first.. it was soon taken over by Vulpix. The version you see above never got on the web, only in screenshot form really. Probably a good thing, it was awful. You had to see every page on the site as it's navigation was "previous" and "next", it had the contents page but I don't remember if it had links there. The second thumbnail above is supposed to be an information page, I'm the creator and I'm still clueless as to why the pics of the cast is there (and why one image isn't working) The cast was still the originals, plus Craig (played by a different member of Aqua to the one we know), Kiara (played by DS9 O'Brien's "daughter" Holly Hatae), Naomi, Emma, Lilly and Morgan who was always played by Lene Nystrøm also from Aqua. Phoebe and Nikki would join later, but neither had actresses at the time (I'm not 100% sure on Phoebe though). The first screenshot above shows the top of the cast page. Second one is the theme animation that was made, and probably was the same one mentioned in Aggressions Part 2 *shudder* Above is thumbnails that listed and talked about Season One and Two episodes. As I don't have the actual site available, just the thumbnails I can only tell you what I remember. Season One was more or less unchanged episode listing wise, the episode "Survival Instinct" from Season Six was in there but was replaced by "World Domination".. the only thing I wanted to make fun of was that prehensile plant in the beginning so it made it into "Prepare For Trouble". Season Two was mostly the same at the beginning, after F9 Control Failure it was very different to the one that's written. Luckily if I remember right the thumbnail above just had info about the first few only anyway, except it obviously had "Memories" there instead of "Saturday Night". I remember "Disconnected" being more sci-fy than horror/fantasy, and "Resistance" being about Janeway & Chakotay rather than James & Jessie, again they weren't even cast. It just isn't a magazine without an interview, and the one above was a fake interview with Morgan, Emma and Lilly, hence the crap title on the second thumbnail. The first one was completely irrelevant as it was spoilers, for the original Voyager series. The first thumbnail was idiotic. Six years into FV and there's still not enough people who read it (or at least who use the interactive stuff) that can generate this so called poll's results. Also it proved even more impossible as the site was created before any episode was written, yes the site was going to go up when Season One was finished (I was going to upload it one ep at a time after the entire season was done, so glad I don't do that now), but even if the site did make it onto the web it still wouldn't of been believable: supposably FV Season One was passed around the schools we all went to and was rated. Again stupidly unbelievable, I was being bullied enough as it was, geeze ¬_¬ Finally the last thumbnail was the usual "next issue" crap with it's cover/intro image. The first I think had a full cast "promo" pic, without Kiara, Naomi, Lilly and Emma.. it just had Morgan on at first, then a crappy picture of Craig that had to be painted on from the waist down (and it was the wrong Craig lol). Hmm so yeah, if FV launched with this and Aggressions Part 1.. well it would of been hilarious in a bad way yes, but luckily nobody would of seen it anyway. Moving on.. Released - Never Created - mid to late 2000

Fifth Voyager - Version 1.1 (thumbnail not available) This version was very similar to the below version, just not in frames. This layout was inspired by the official Star Trek site (or nicked ^_^), and I remember saving their index file so I could look at it on my computer. I remember that I changed to frames so I didn't have to update every file that had the menu on when I added a new button to the menu. Released - 4th December 2000 URL - www.geocities.com/fifthvoyager

Fifth Voyager - Version 1.2 I'm not sure where all my old intro animations all are, but the pic on the intro page above is one of the early ones. Also again you can see the old FV logo was made with usual fonts. The main page in the frameset above isn't the main page. The only version of this site I had, had a link leading to the new location on the homepage (same with the next version) and that was mainly it. The page I used for the screenshot above is actually the episode index. If you can see it clearly, you'll notice there are four columns, one for each season. I had Seasons 1 - 8 more or less planned out, which I found out was very pre-mature. Seasons 2 and 3 themselves are completely different to the ones in that episode index, well except the beginning of 2. Season 1 is the same. Released - Unknown (2001) URL - www.geocities.com/fifthvoyager

Fifth Voyager - Version 1.3 Once again the menu system stayed the same in this version. Also I had made the FV logo that is used today to put on the intro page, and in the main page in the frameset (obviously to show it off a little ^_^). This one really confused me when I looked at it, before I say why let me say that I have the memory of a goldfish. According to the main home page the showing episode was "Games Resistance", the news page says the 'new' episode is "Resistance", and the episode index has a link to "Memories" (which was the next episode after Games Resistance according to the main page and episode index). The current 2001 news page says "Saturday Night" was the last ep uploaded before the site moved (because of a temporary take over) AND it also says F9: Control Failure and Caretaker Part 2 were uploaded before the site got a new design (which I do remember, and is strangely missing). Obviously "Memories" in the Episode Index was made before the update I planned to do, which must of been put back for "Dimension Jump" which was a revenge episode (sad I know), the file wouldn't of been uploaded this way but it's a mystery as to why the episode index wasn't corrected when "Saturday Night", "F9 Control Failure" and "Caretaker" were released, not to mention "Dimension Jump" before then. Surely the home page and news should of been up to date too. Confusing. Released - 24th June 2001 URLs - www.fifthvoyager.0catch.com, fifthvoyager.iwarp.com, www.envy.nu/fifthvoyager

Fifth Voyager - Version 1.4 (thumbnail not available) I remember this version very well. I wanted to change the site considerably so you wouldn't recognise it. The menu was on the bottom frame, with new images for the menu. There was a marquee at the top of the page, and everything else was in the middle frame. I still don't know why it isn't on my computer. I know I started working on it on my mum's computer, and the files were on there. I'm sure I must of done updates on my own computer.. so I'm definitely stumped on this one. Released - 27th September 2001 URLs - www.fifthvoyager.f2s.com, fifthvoyager.iwarp.com

Fifth Voyager 2002 - Version 1 2002 marked the demise of the Star Trek.com inspired menus, and introduced good old written links. Not just that, this version also introduced a different background image and lots of OTT Paint Shop Pro lighting effects. I should of known one day that I'd become to regret doing those. The thing I liked the most about that version was the episode index, and how it loaded the newest episode when you went into it. Released - 4th December 2001 URLs - fifthvoyager.iwarp.com, fv-2002.4mg.com, www.geocities.com/fv_universe

Fifth Voyager 2002 - Version 2 This version was a big step for me. I had become so used to using frames that it proved very difficult to do this version. I had to change the site so there were no frames since Angelfire didn't support frames very well. Released - 3rd March 2002 URLs - fifthvoyager.iwarp.com, www.angelfire.com/fl5/fifthvoyager

Fifth Voyager 2002 - Version 3 This version was never going to be made when I first released Fifth Voyager 2002. The original plan was to have three versions during the year. This version was the result of boredom, all I wanted to do was to change the background image but I ended up changing a lot more than that. Of course all the images that were used on the main page slowed the site down considerably. Released - 15th June 2002 URLs - fifthvoyager.iwarp.com, www.angelfire.com/fl5/fifthvoyager, www.fifthvoyager.cjb.net

Fifth Voyager 2002 - Version 4 The previous two versions was so very alike I decided to change the layout for this one so it looked a lot more neat. It worked but like every website, there was problems. The menu was only available on the main page, and going back was a bit slow since the site's host was a little slow on some computers (personally I didn't have any bother). Also for 1024 by 768 users the main page was a little bare. Despite all the problems, this version introduced a lot more features, big and small. Released - 1st September 2002 URLs - www.fifthvoyager.cjb.net, fifthvoyager.iwarp.com, fifthvoyager.deep-ice.com, www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 1.0 Version 4 of FV 2002 was a brilliant version in my eyes so it took a hell of a long time to beat it. I didn't want to make a version that was worse than the previous, especially since it was the third year's first layout. This layout was very cramped on smaller monitors, which is basically one of two problems. The second problem was the amount of fiddly things I had to do every week. This version was one of the versions that took the longest amount of time to get the finished product. The one that took the longest was the very first of course. This version originally was going to keep the non-frame look but like older versions I wanted users to be able to use the menu nearly everywhere they go. Also I had to introduce the whole 'select which resolution you're currently using' thing, no matter what I did I couldn't get the frame set to work in both resolutions. Released - 4th December 2002 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 1.1 Since the above version was too cramped for some visitors I re-designed the site a little to give the main frame more room. I also tried to reduce the picture sizes to reduce loading times. I noticed a while back that the splash page took too long to load. Released - 20th February 2003 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 2.0 This version I totally screwed up thanks to an idea I came up with to reduce loading time. I started again on the next design, but I decided to keep the look of the said design top secret. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 2.1 With the previous version (1.0, not 1.1) the main frame gave 800 by 600 users a very cramped look. Version 2.1 was designed to give the main frame more room, yet keep the entire menu available. The idea to have links to the major pages at the top, to have now showing and other stuff in the home page, and finally have the little pages on the bottom frame came to pass. The idea worked, the main frame wasn't as cramped.. plus everything worked where they were placed. The only problems I can think of for this version was the colour (green isn't usually an attractive colour for a site), there were too many images for it to load, and because of the separate menu systems it was a little harder for me to update the files. Besides from all that the version was a success, and I got several positive comments about it. For the record nobody complained about the colour unlike what I expected ^_^ Released - 12th March 2003 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 3.0 (Accidentally deleted version) Damn I wish I had made a screenshot of it ^_^ The folder for this version was a victim of war between my computer and my mam & I. For some reason it didn't move to my backup drive like the rest of my websites did, so it was deleted during the format. It's not really fair, did the computer think I wasn't getting enough grief with it being totally unusable for a week?? I spent ages trying to get this design working in 800 by 600+ resolutions ¬_¬ Never released

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 3.1 Started off well, but it ended up looking too much like the last version. Work was restarted.. again. As you can see there's some screenshots of this one.. The site was going to open up in a new little window like MarilLena's Gallery does, it works for a gallery site like that but this site wouldn't of worked like that. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 3.2 Third time was the charm, more or less. While having the characteristics of the previous version, Version 3.2 still managed to look better. The main page looks a little like a forum design. Everything looks brighter and cheerful, to suit the summer and the nature of the series itself (generally ^_^). On the laptop this looks much brighter, so I'm very glad the pics are tiny. The design is alright but the yellow.. no no. Released - 14th June 2003 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 4.1 This version isn't much different to the one below, menus are in different places and it looks like I was going to put more images into it. It's funny like above this had no comments on it, usually I said something about every design I did at the time it was done (well from late 2002 onward I think) so.. well it's hard to write about it now ^_^ Never released

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Version 4.2 2002 Version 4.0 was the first version that had a seasonal colour. Like that version this version has gone Autumn Red. The menu and the Episode Archive had changed dramatically to make updating easier for me, and everything easier to find. Released - 13th September 2003 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2003 - Temporarily Closed Version Nothing much to tell really, this was a temporary layout that was barely around. It was only introduced to replace the 'close site for a week while I finish off FV 2004' idea. It did however inspire me to stop working on the original FV 2004 layout and work on another, another, and then another lol. The top banner was used for the forum that was hosted elsewhere, when the forum started fresh here it got a different look.. it's a shame, I still like the banner. Released - 15th November 2003 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2004 - Version 1 The original FV 2004 design. It took me ages to make the main frame, it doesn't look much in the screenshot but believe me it was complicated. I loved this design until I started working on the forum's second design, the amount of purple in the forum made me look at the site and I felt it had the same problem. Several people suggested breaking up the purple with whites, blacks and more importantly blues, the second design was started not long afterwards. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2004 - Version 1.1 After researching lots and lots of other websites to get inspiration, I finally came up with a new design. For a few days I was impressed, but in the end it just looked common as muck and I felt it wasn't going to last a few weeks let along most of the year. Work started again. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2004 - Version 1.2 The intro page for the current design was very similar to this one, and the previous one may I point out (that's why there's no screenshot of it). My point is that there was a lcars system in the intro and when you went into the site you would find a run of the mill site (the one above). This one was created to include button menus, plus written menus also. The main page was taken from the original FV 2004 design, and of course the top banner from the previous one stayed in.. in a way it was a mixture of everything I did before hand. For a day I was impressed, but like before I wasn't happy with it.. so yes I started again. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2004 - Version 1.3 More research took place to create this design. I decided to keep the menu from the last design, which took me hours to get right believe it or not, and remove the top banner as it was taking up too much room on 800 by 600 screens. One of the sites I got inspiration from gave me the idea of putting a banner in the middle of the page, aka the main page. That way it would only be in the way on the main page and nowhere else. The main page's design (with the small fonts, less text than previous versions etc) came from the temporary layout that was before this one. That's all I really have to say about this one ^_^ Released - 4th December 2003 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2004 - Version 2 Believe it or not but this did take a lot of time as there's lots of frames. The colours were a bit off but I was working on the layout at first. Once I finished there was something about the whole thing that put me off keeping it. I didn't bother editing the colours in the end ^_^ Never released

Fifth Voyager 2004 - Version 2.1 The pictures don't really do the this version justice, trust me. The splash page is the one Version 1.3 was using for a short while. The forum was changed to match the site, the top banner was exactly the same but the menu was replaced with a blue box with "forums" and a few characters pics. That menu has the main one, the quick jump menu and the vote for FV links. I'd go on but I don't want to bore you. (2007 edit: this was written before it was released, and never edited again.. hmm. It's still one of my favourite designs and the forum version wasn't too bad either ^_^) Released - 24th May 2004 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2005 - Version 1 This one was just the basic layout idea for 2005 Version 1, at least until I get a better idea for it ^_^ Never released

Fifth Voyager 2005 - Version 1.1 I wasn't entirely sure about this one. I like it, but it didn't seem like a style that'll suit FV. All I did was the layout, I hadn't even gotten around to finishing the top banner.. (in fact two unfinished versions are on my hard drive.. they were huge ¬_¬). Never released

Fifth Voyager 2005 - Version 1.2 Another favourite of mine, the site usually turns out pretty sweet looking when it's using the red scheme ^_^ It had a basic design: the top banner, a small menu that would change if you clicked "Information" for example, then the main home frame. The home page had a 3dy box effect which I loved and tried to re-create on future versions. The top banner was cool too, there's not many that I still like - I get sick/tired of them quickly, and I usually spot mistakes that annoy me. Not this one. Released - 4th December 2004 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2005 - Version 2.0 Simple/plain splash page, simple/plain box frame style site.. it worked I suppose, but it just wasn't good enough to last the six months, it did but I was glad to move on. Released - 13th June 2005 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2005 - Closed Version Just for three days the site closed to allow me to upload files, delete unneeded ones without anyone noticing, and test the new ones. Simple, but it's not meant to be more than a ten minute job is it ^_^ The FV logo was resized to be bigger for once, it's usually made smaller in graphics, and I was expecting a big stretched glitchy mess but it didn't look too bad at all. That thing is indestructible and constantly reusable lol, not bad for an image that's five years old. Released - 1st December 2005 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2006 - Version 1.0 There must of been some reason why this wasn't chosen to be released. I found it again just recently and adored it. Apart from the banner it was a bit, simple.. er than usual. The banner is nice, but you can see even in the tiny screenshot that the background that was supposed to mix the banner with the rest of the menu kept repeating itself badly, it doesn't look too great like that. Plus the design I guess looked very empty in widescreen resolution, it looks like that in 1024 by 768 so there you go, that's probably the reason. Never released URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2006 - Version 1.1 The only splash of colour on this little framed wonder was the good old FV logo, and the links. I couldn't decide on a colour scheme, so black/white/grey took over. The design itself isn't half bad, it just had too many frames and scrollbars in it. Also the splash page was removed to hopefully keep visitors from leaving right away without seeing anything. Released - 4th December 2005 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2006 - Version 2.0 The new site design was a part of a surprise gift for all of my patient readers, FV has been pretty lacking in the episode department for years and I wanted to do something special. I've tried to do marathons in the past, but this one more or less worked and it came wrapped in this pretty red package as well. This design helped FV break a tradition that's been around forever, a new design always appeared on the 4th December, the site's birthday, but I was still loving the current design and I didn't want to change it. Obviously it had to go sometime as was finding problems with it, I had to put this section in Guides so I didn't have to change the menu on every page, and the polls went on the home page for the same reason. A new forum template was going to be made to match this on the site's birthday instead, but as the forum itself was being fixed around about that time, and I was working night shifts I didn't have the time to do it. This is the site design that's lasted the longest. I have noticed a pattern thanks to it though, the red ones are always the nicest ones (except in 2004, which had two nice blue ones). Released - 24th July 2006 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2007 - Version 1.0 As I had 2006 2.0 to beat, it was very difficult to create a better or just as good design. The first attempt was this. I loved it, but it had the same problem as the last: the menu would have to be added to almost every page, making updating the menu annoying to do. Afterwards I tried many framed versions of it, none of them got far at all, I always ended up back at this one. After a few more tries I came up with 1.2, which I loved for a while but amazingly despite me saying that it would be this one I'd get sick of quickly, it was that one it happened to. Before then I had posted a poll on the forums so viewers could pick between this and 1.2, only one voted for this, others voted for both or neither. People I talked to preferred 1.2 just cos of the colour scheme, because it was framed or the banner used on it. I dumped it only because I was never fully happy with the banner, because changing the menu (that was apart of it) would require even more work, the logo looked badly placed on it, the bordered tables were a faff to do on every page.. you get the idea. In the end I decided to re-do this design with the lucky colour scheme (red) and a fixed menu which can be changed easily. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2007 - Version 1.1 This was the best attempt at making the site full screened and framed. The idea was to have a repeating image at the top, with the main banner in the centre of it.. in any resolution it would look like the banner was the same size as the window. I couldn't make a decent enough background image for the banner that went with the design, so it was scrapped. Like I said above, I went back to 1.0 before restarting once again from scratch. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2007 - Version 1.2 For a while I was in love with this design, then one day I started doing the pages for it.. another few days left I looked at it, and felt 1.0 was miles better. Screencapping all the designs for this page made it official, it looks awful in screenshot form. It's too blue, plus the blue in the main page doesn't work with the banner/background image. I never liked the placing of the FV logo, and the image mapped menu would make it difficult to update the menu, I would have to redo the banner to do it. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2007 - Version 1.3 I finally decided to return to 1.0, and redesign it once again. Starting afresh never seemed to work out. This time I decided to change the background color, the blue one annoyed me now, also the colour scheme. Red's always been a lucky colour with FV site designs (funnily enough 2004 did fine with blue ones but never mind, all other red ones worked out well). The banner had been made a while ago, it didn't fit as well with the new colours, so was recoloured itself. The menu was fixed so that it was a separate file, making updating it very easy. Other minor changes were the go to the top link at the bottom of each page (since it's not framed, getting to the menu on long pages like this one is annoying), centering almost everything, somebody commented that the 1.2 design was better because of that so.. I did and it did look better. Also the headers were formatted like the menu, which is fiddly.. so I didn't bother with that this time. Since I did like what I did with the news and guides section with the frames with 1.0, I brought them into this version too. Released - 22nd April 2007 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net

Fifth Voyager 2008 - Version 1.0 This was created soon after I got an inspiration for a new design, it did come out more or less how I wanted.. except it didn't look right at all when I was done. I had already made the main banner, and it is being used on the one that will be released, so at least you know what a bit of it looks like. Anyway that design just didn't look right with the banner, the home frame just looked awful no matter what I did, I was worried about the purple border image repeating itself on the right on wider resolutions, and the menu was just crappy. So yeah this didn't last very long once it was finished, I just print screened it for this section and started on a new one. Never released

Fifth Voyager 2008 - Version 1.1 I've been wanting to do a full screen design for this site for ages, but always failed. You want to know why? See 2006 Version 1.0. You just have to make the right banner, which will go with a background image so it'll look right in every resolution. That version was the only one that came close, and it's so awful in any resolution that's in it's 1000's. Never mind, there's always next year. For 2008's I had already made a banner that I liked, so I just began a simple, inline frame home page design like the black/grey design a while ago. Only this time that is the only frame, with the exception of the episode archive which stays the same. After messing around with the banner I had already made, to see if I could come up with a colour/theme for it to make it look different to past designs, I did come up with something. The menu is the big change, and when I say big I mean it in two ways. It's a big menu, there's a reason for that.. it's what makes the design look even better. The only problem with this design is that while trying to think up a design for 2008, I grew tired of trying to accomodate to 800 by 600, while still trying to make it look great in 1024 by 768. I was lucky however, when I tested it just to see how bad it looked in 800, only the home page frame's scroll bar is out of view.. the rest of it fits. It does look very cramped, but a site that doesn't look cramped in that resolution is going to seem empty in any resolution bigger than that. Released - 4th December 2007 URL - www.fifthvoyager.net