Webmistress

Name: Ellen
Alias: Silversun
Age: 20
Hometown: Potomac, Maryland (Outside DC)
Job: Student (Sophomore), biochemistry
Ethnicity: Caucasian
MBTI: INTJ
Interests: Web/graphic design, art, fantasy, Japanese music and culture, 18th century
Design Experience: About 6-7 years
Email/MSN: silversunofzuljin [at] hotmail [dot] com

Version 3.0
Features Miliyah Kato in her music video for SAYONARA Baby.
Sparkly brushes from Hybrid-Genesis.

Layout Coded via TextEdit
Editted in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Sliced using Adobe ImageReady CS
Tested in Opera, Mozilla, and Safari

I use a few different brushes from various sites:
Hybrid Genesis
Moargh.de
FEEL
Celestial Star

Please upload the button to your own server!
       

Terms of usage regarding layouts more specifically are laid out on each pre-made.
1. All images and artwork on this site belong to Ellen. Additional resources are credited. Do not steal anything and claim it is yours.
2. Do not direct link anything on your site (right clicking an image and using its url to put on your site). This is costing me my bandwidth and ultimately, my money. I pays for this hosting service.
3. Do not post any of my artwork on your website period, no exceptions. If you wish to share my work, please direct them via link to the site.
4. Do not steal any of my coding, but you can study it or look at it if you need to learn how to code something specific.
5. Please only edit the pre-made designs only to the extent that I describe on them. Do not edit the images - they should already be customizable enough! Do not totally overhaul the CSS or coding because then you are stealing my graphics.
If you have a question about the terms or to what extent you can edit the layout, please contact me. =)

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Tetra-Colored is currently accepting affiliates.
1. Graphics design sites and resource sites are preferred to portfolios
2. Updating frequently is not an issue for me since I'm not too good at it myself
3. I'm not the most talkative person and not on MSN too much, so its up to you to stay in touch with me if that's important =)
4. I don't love anime but if your site is truly exceptional I'll definitely consider it (manga or other art is OK though)
5. My personal taste is really the most important factor
If you're interested in affiliation, email me at silversunofzuljin [at] hotmail [dot] com or use the contact form. =D

If you are interested in link exchanging with Tetra-Colored, please email me at silversunofzuljin [at] hotmail [dot] com.
       

I've been interested in webdesign for a very long time. When I was 10 years old, my former babysitter's son was watching me and my brother for the night. He showed me his sanrio website on geocities, and from that point on I have always wanted a website. I used to play around with a "create a website" program on the computer. My parents finally let me make a yahoo account on my birthday. Although no one visited my old websites, I used to create pages and pages of "dolls" and soon neopets when I began playing that when I was 11.

Neopets had a dramatic impact on my webdesigning. I finally started learning codes instead of relying on pagebuilders. My mom let me get Paint Shop Pro when I was 12 or so, and I started making my own graphics. I relied heavily on brushes, but understood what a color scheme was and that a overload of brushes was not attractive.

At 13 I was exposed to graphic sites (primarily Aethereality and Day Dream Graphics) through neopets. I really wanted to make a website again. At first I used premades and supplied neopets graphics, but then started making my own site layouts. I doubt anyone visited my site, and at the time I didn't know what affiliates were and if there were other sucky sites out there like mine.

As I got older I stopped playing neopets. In the fall of 2004 when I was 14, I got hosted by Em-Chan and opened a site called Ephemeral. The site was originally going to have a manga my friend and I were working on, but I soon just started putting some premade layouts on it. My older premade layouts were hardly editted, contained horrible coding, and really large. But they weren't hard on the eye like most people's "noob" graphics were. However I soon stopped designing and updating and Em-Chan closed down her domain.

A year later in 2005 my interest in designing was revitalized. How, I am not quite sure. For my MYP project in school (MYP is sort of like the IB program), I decided I was going to create a website to offer hosting and graphics. This is how divine-judgment.net was created. My graphic skills were still pretty horrible, but soon I got Photoshop on my laptop and began using that to design. From spring 2005 to winter 2006, my designing improved exponentially. What started out as an unknown graphic site got transformed into a huge network of hosting and sponsoring. At it's peak in winter 2006, Divine Judgment got at least a hundred unique hits per day. However, I soon began to lose interest in the site.

In spring 2006, I opened Inori Designs, featuring the earliest remnants of my current style. I finally learned how to blend and use textures. The site was not as popular as I imagined, but I updated frequently and made a lot of new friends.

In fall 2007, I decided to close Inori for a few reasons: 1. I wasn't able to update often because of school/college apps and 2. I didn't want to feel like a burden to my affiliates and have pressure to be active. Tetra-Colored was my new portfolio site, and since it doesn't revolve around just web-design, I feel like I can do a lot more with it.

However, TC didn't much live up to my expectations in blogging and I felt like I wanted to be involved in the community again, decided to revamp it as a designs site. For the first time in a long time, I put aside all of my older layouts and started from scratch.