Comments on: New Theme: Seigaiha

By: Ivy

Ivy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:08:06 +0000

@kirin: Thanks! I actually really admire ancient Japanese culture. I like it more than the modern Japanese culture. Would love to be able to live in Japan for a short while and learn ikebana and about Shintoism. It’s all very fascinating to me.

@Katy: Thanks, babe!

@Teddy: Thanks! This design definitely took a lot out of me. :S You could do tiled background with Photoshop as well. I’m not good with Illustrator either actually. Glad that helped you find the link back! Actually, the expanding text box isn’t new. It was implemented with the last theme, but I guess it was less obvious since the box was a bit longer.

@Mimi: Thanks! Yeah, typography layouts are quite hard to grasp. Without Extreme Georgia, I wouldn’t have been able to make this layout either. :S

By: Mimi

Mimi — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:40:53 +0000

I love how elegant your design looks without being overly plain and boring, great job! I definitely agree, typography makes such a difference when it comes to design, yet for me, it’s always so hard to rely mainly on typography to build my designs.

By: Teddy

Teddy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:36:08 +0000

Amazing new layout, Ivy! This is by far the best design you’ve released so far I totally dig the colour scheme – greyscale with a classy mix of red looks perfect! And the background – must be very grueling to design! So far I’m yet to learn how to make tiled backgrounds, because that means I’ll have to pick up Illustrator but I’m a little lazy to do so for the moment being

Typography is perfect. I really love the Smashing Magazine article you’ve linked! I read it some time ago but forgot to bookmark/digg it so it got lost, plus after my lappie crashed, I lost all my browsing history where I can possible dig out the page from. Extreme Georgia is one of the best typographical template I’ve encountered so far.

p/s: I love the expanding textbox of your comment area! How nifty

By: Katy

Katy — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:23:17 +0000

Good job on the theme Ivy! Everything looks clean and evenly spaced out. I’ve always wanted to make a typography-based theme but have been too lazy.

By: kirin

kirin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:19:50 +0000

I like this new theme, Ivy! To me, the pattern is something familiar because I’m Japanese, but that doesn’t mean I’m bored of it. This kind of ancient Japanese patterns actually never make us bored. No matter how many times they are used and how long, they still look cool and nice! Great work! BTW I didn’t know it’s called Seigaiha! (@_@!)

By: Ivy

Ivy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:20:39 +0000

@soyuzno: Thanks! Not as good as yours though. Your portfolio always blows me away.

@Jo: Hi! Thanks! Looks like I’m not alone is loving Georgia!

@Simply Precious: Thanks, girl! Yeah, I’m usually so lazy when it comes to details. I just use the default fonts I’ve been using for years – the equivalent of Arial 10pt. But I’m starting to get really tired of the common sans serif fonts; it lacks personality.

Since you’re a web developer by profession, I’m sure you can come up with some mean code. I’m quite useless with the coding actually, which is why this theme was a pain for me. I had to make quite a few customizations in WordPress functions to get it to work. And still making them for the lifestream. Arghhh. If only I was more l33t.

@Tara: Yes IE just needs to die or just bloody conform. LOL. I decided to no longer support IE 6. Can’t be bothered anymore. Haha. Yes, yes time to change your layout! I wanna see it.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:41:40 +0000

@k and @Claudia: Oops, for some reason your comments ended up as spam. Guess Akismet screwed up.

@Claudia Yeah, I noticed from your latest theme that you must be quite fond of serif fonts too. Perhaps serif is making a comeback.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:53:57 +0000

IE needs to die. But aside from IE, this looks fantastic! So nice and clean-cut! Love the whole “bread” inspiration LOL. Makes me want to go get some Korean bread now.

This is really an inspirational design. Makes me want to change my layout now!

By: Simply Precious

Simply Precious — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:49:39 +0000

Wow, I really do love this new theme!! =) I didn’t realize that it was the typography that made this different from your other themes. I knew there was something different, just couldn’t pinpoint it until I read it. Hahah, I’m too lazy to implement stuff like that into my own sites.

By: Jo

Jo — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:47:52 +0000

Oh my. This is gorgeous. I’m a relatively new visitor to your site, and while I was very impressed with your previous layout, this one completely blows me away. Great job.

I agree with you completely about Georgia. It’s one of my favorite fonts, if not my absolute favorite, so this may contribute to my fondness of this layout.