Tags: css, music, theme, updates, wordpress.
Categores: Site Updates.
After many hours of toilsome head, knuckle and shoulder-cracking coding, Nanyate: Springley Edition is finally (almost) complete. You will notice that certain categories have been replaced by tags, and the perpetually “under construction” anime review section…deleted. That’s because anime reviews will now be combined with my blog, since I just can’t seem to get to them when they’re on a page. A page. A PAGE! A wordpress page is apparently just too much for my mind to handle.
Anyway, Springley was named for a practical design purpose: to ensure that the header would be balanced between the water lily. The palette inspiration came from a must-have for all designers, Pattern + Palette 2 (which my boyfriend got me for V-day). The actual ’spark’ of an inspiration came from the anime series ARIA the ANIMATION, where life on Mars is portrayed as paradise on Earth, where everyone is kind, everyplace is beautiful, and everything bad is… never reflected. The world that is portrayed is so unreal, so perfect that I couldn’t help but be sucked in, and eagerly wait for my daily 20 minutes of paradise through YouTube. I know there are not many anime fans amongst my visitors, so I decided to bring their fantasy via Nanyate, the only way I know how - pastel colors, rudimentary code and crappy drawings worthy of an F in art class.
I hope you enjoy your fantasy through Springley, as I enjoy mine through ARIA.
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ooh lovely! now i want it to be spring! it’s definitely my favorite time of the year!
It looks great, the only thing that confuses me is an extra brown line at the bottom.
I admire your ability to change themes this often and always have them look perfect!
That must be an IE bug because there’s no extra line in Firefox Mac/Windows, Opera Mac/Windows, Safari iPod/Mac. I can’t fix it since I use a Mac and they’ve stopped production of IE for Macs. Oh well. I’ll fix it when I get access to Windows with an FTP program.
Someone should shoot the IE programmers for failing to comply with CSS standards. Is it that hard to add a few lines of code to save THE WORLD’S DESIGNERS the pain the ass of coding ANOTHER stylesheet for ONE incredibly stupid browser. And this is IE 7 I’m talking about. It’s the latest stuff! Jeez.
Lovely layout! Nice colours! XD
I like, I like… Especially the way you edited the header
F or not, it’s still another layout I’ll access several times a day just to salivate in front of my monitor. Haha!
Beautiful job, Ivy. Really. The colours are pleasing to the eye, and it definitely accentuates the elements of springtime!
Yes, it’s definitely an F.
This is a gorgeous design! I love the colors and I like what you did with the footer. Very nice job!
I love the colors and illustrations
it looks great!!
i really like the old lay-out you had on here before and thought that nothing could top it — but this one certainly has!! i like the lighter, airier colors — everything is just so clean and cute!!!
and i agree with michael — the footer looks fantastic!!
Niiiiiiiiiiiice… and the footer is cute!