In April 2003, the Cureless domain was born. Yoru's sites at that time - blog, fanlisting, anime shrine and personal site, which were housed into different free servers and hosting sites, moved into the domain. Since each got into their own subdomain, all that was left in the main site (http://cureless.net) was a splash image showing the title.
Cureless splash page featuring Filipino actress Aubrey Miles
Cureless somehow connotes a negative image, something close to perversion but not quite, thus the reason for the images displayed.
Cureless splash page featuring Hollywood actress and singer Jennifer Lopez
Later on, Yoru decided to spruce up the main site with links to the subdomains, as well as links to her friends sites. This layout featuring Lain (of anime Serial Experiments Lain) was the earliest of the layouts she could recall. It consisted of iframes, which to her memory were the in thing during that time.
Cureless featuring Lain on cover
Another one of those layouts is this one featuring the female characters from the Japanese comic series Love Hina.
Then in 2004, Yoru decided to integrate everything on the main domain and abolish all those smaller subdomains because it became harder to manage each one of them. Her blog was published using Blogger. Now here are some of the looks the site had then.
Yoru *had* a seasonal obsession for the Japanese musician Gackt
And so with these bishounen characters from the anime Get Backers
The site also had Morpheus (the Sandman) from Neil Gaiman, et. al's comics as cover in mid 2004.
When Yoru's artworks became a part of the domain section called Folio, she shifted from Blogger to her own installation of MovableType for publishing. More than a blog platform, MT served as the site's CMS.
Characters from the Japanese comic series Parfait Tic! also graced the pages of Cureless.
Yoru also used her original sketch as a layout.
Probably, the site's greatest advance in terms of web design came in late 2004, when Yoru decided to drop the tables and opt for CSS layouts instead. Then she turned the site's title into CURELESS, an acronym for different ideas.
CURELESS as Collosal Utterances Reaping Egoist Losers Ergo Sympathy Suckers
CURELESS as Consumed Unabashed Ruined Esoteric Loneliness Eratically Seeking Solitude
Cureless took a break from the acronym titles when it featured Renji Abarai of Japanese comic series Bleach in its layout in early 2005.
The acronym title got revived shortly when Yoru became a fan of Metallica. The layout features the band's bassist, the late Cliff Burton. CURELESS is for Cliff U Rock Everyone's Little Empty Shallow Soul.
A year passed. Meanwhile, Yoru got bored no time in updating the domain. The unknown subdomain running on WordPress became more updated than the main thing. Around March of 2006, the new blog's content was brought to the main. Cureless, since then, has been managed by WordPress.
The site is incomplete with just the blog. So in May 2006, Yoru started designing a WordPress theme for the site. It was flowery and in pastel colors. Very girly and so un-Tew, according to Eehgow.
The very girly start of Cureless. Expressing love for colors!
Everyone thought it was going to be the site's last layout. But the number of IE users visiting Cureless is at an alarming 50% rate. Yoru had to design a new one, just in time for the new year.
It's also time for the site to have its own logo.
The year is 2007 and Cureless is celebrating its 4th year (hurray!) anniversary this year. More hopes and plans for this domain.
