Nanyate 2010 Re-design: Nami

March 16, 2010 / Site Updates, Web Design and Development

Nanyate.com finally gets a new theme for 2010! It’s called 波 nami – Japanese for wave. Not much inspiration here; I simply grew tired of looking at serif fonts on white background. Every blog seems to be going to the minimalist, serif route, so I decided to bring back some color and some sans-serif…

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New Theme: Seigaiha

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August 2, 2009 / Site Updates, Web Design and Development

Friends, readers and lurkers, I now present to you my new theme: Seigaiha or 青海波. Seigaiha is an ancient Japanese wave design created with semi-circles. How Seigaiha was born It’s probably the most difficult theme I have ever designed. Finding the motif was the easy part. I discovered seigaiha months ago while I was at the…

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Moving Hosts

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July 28, 2009 / Site Updates

Dear Nanyate Readers, Please bear with me as I switch hosts over the next 48 hours or so. Will be back in full force soon! Much Love, Ivy

Best Wordpress Design Award

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March 11, 2009 / Site Updates, Web Design and Development

[narcissism] A la Teddy’s recommendation, I decided to participate in WPWebHost’s Best Wordpress Design Award. Nanyate?! doesn’t quite fit in any category, so I’m just going to go for Modern and Elegant like everyone else. Let’s hope Nanyate?! makes semi-finals and you can all vote for me. [/narcissism] How to participate? Your website must be powered by WordPress. Write…

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Nanyate?! Gets A 2009 Redesign

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February 12, 2009 / Site Updates, Web Design and Development

After designing, coding and scrapping 2 layouts, I finally settled with this new theme, which I call “Zen”. Searching for a personal brand, an identity It was quite a challenge coming up with something new. With my job now related to the Singaporean social media scene, I wanted to create some sort of identity for myself and…

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Happy 1 Year, Nanyate.com!

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December 12, 2008 / Site Updates

It’s been 1 year since my first post on Nanyate.com. It was meant to be a personal blog, where I would just rave and rant my thoughts. But that didn’t happen. It ended up becoming a blog where I tailor my entries to multiple audiences. And I probably did more grammar checks per entry than I did…

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