Version 5.1
Using WordPress as a CMS with separate welcome page

Designed by Natalie upon request by Sophia Myles herself after she had seen some of her fanart. Along with the design the site also became official – so we wanted to create a layout that was striking and totally unique. It was a challenge since both of us aren’t professional site designers – but I think we were able to come up with something fresh!

Version 4.4
Using WordPress as a CMS

Designed by Natalie of 2N-Design. It was high time for a new layout in autumn of 2010 to mark Sophia’s comeback in the UK TV Series Spooks! What better way to celebrate it than to use pictures of her as MI-5 agent Beth Bailey. The launch of the layout also brought along a new site name ‘Simply Sophia Myles’. The only drawback was that the text was hard to read.
 

Version 4.3
Using WordPress as a CMS

Designed by Luna. This was the result of a Layout header contest in our messageboard. I already had a working WordPress theme but asked members to create a header and some graphics for the title backgrounds throughout the site. Many of our talented artists were too busy at the time but I fell in love with Luna’s design right away!
 

Version 4.2
Using WordPress as a CMS

Designed by Natalie. After featuring 5 different layouts througout the website I wanted to go back to having one single layout. Natalie designed this lovely header with some of my favourite pictures and kept it all in blue – Sophia’s favourite colour. I loved it a lot!
 
 

Version 4.1
Using WordPress as a CMS

Designed by Samantha. To celebrate the big site make over – conversion to WordPress & new gallery – I asked a talented designer to create 5 beautiful layouts. I was especially happy with the main layout. Such a colorful and spirited layout and yet it was still professional.
 
 

Version 3.3
Using Cutenews for the Updates, Manual coding of remaining pages with PHP

Designed by Mycah. I finally accepted the fact that I myself couldn’t create pretty graphics. I really really like this layout – but I think there was something missing in the text areas. I was a bit lazy to think of something though.
 
 
 

Version 3.2
Using Cutenews for the Updates, Manual coding of remaining pages with PHP

I wanted a much simpler look and that’s what I came up with. I still kind of like it but think that a more talented designer could have gotten a lot more out of it by designing the content space a bit better.
 
 
 

Version 3.1
Using Cutenews for the Updates, Manual coding of remaining pages with PHP

I decided to give in to Cutenews – and what a blessing it was! It made updating so much easier. For the layout I tried to create something that would be a bit more gender-neutral and professional-looking.
 
 
 

Version 2.1
Manual coding of pages using PHP

I learnt a new technique: PHP includes and my life – at least when it came to designing websites – became a lot easier. I only used the 2 pictures for the layout and I always felt it was a bit cheap. But people liked it, esp. because they thought it was pink and linked it to Sophia’s role as Lady P
 
 

Version 1.2
Manual coding of HTML pages

Going for a lighter tone I chose green – a colour I was very unused to having on any of my websites. I liked the result a lot and thought that the pictures reflected the apparently happy personality of Sophia Myles. I liked the layout a lot but you can so tell that it was made by an amateur
 
 

Version 1.1
Manual coding of HTML pages

I was trying to give the impression that there were many different pictures of Sophia available – even though I was only just starting my picture collection.
In the end I felt it was too dark.