Tags: css, ie, japan, theme, updates, wordpress.
Categores: Blogging Advice, Culture, Opinion, Site Updates.
Nanyate?! has a new theme! This layout is titled “Yukata 浴衣 Summer”. For those who are unfamiliar with Japanese culture, yukata is the summer version of a kimono 着物. The flower in the background is inspired from a yukata featured in last year’s issue of JJ Magazine. Yes, I drew it. And yes, it took forever. I haven’t actually illustrated anything complicated for a while, so I was quite antsy when I drew the flower.
The layout is currently in beta mode. The background is incomplete. I wanted to add a couple more embellishments but I haven’t received my brushes from Seishido as of yet. And of course, there are bugs to kill and the layout doesn’t work on IE 6 at all. Most bugs will be fixed by tomorrow. IE6 compatibility will have to wait. Busting out my old Sony Vaio to re-code half the site is just…argh.
I’ve been at this for 2 days. 1 day for drawing the background. 1 day for designing + coding. I haven’t slept for 20 hours. So, pardon this rough post and rough layout.
I’m exhausted. Off to bed.
UPDATE!:I received my brushes! Here’s the new background! Most bugs for the Mac Firefox, Safari and Opera are squashed. I’d expect that their Windows would react the same way. Now all that’s left is that nasty IE6, which I don’t have access to - not even from my old Sony VAIO! IE NetEenderer isn’t powerful enough for me to refresh every 5 seconds, so coding for IE will have to wait until I go to my school’s library.
Sorry, IE6 users. On the other hand… you really shouldn’t be using IE6. Microsoft is already developing IE8 and even had a beta release! I can’t imagine what kinda security flaws you IE6 users have to deal with. 
The browser’s free for goodness’ sakes; all it takes to upgrade is some free time. Think about it this way: just 10 minutes less of porn, infinite increase in security. Time for a upgrade, people.
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Wow this is very nice layout
and thanks for the information about the kind of flower this is 
great job on your template. Good luck! 
Thanks!
Actually it’s not a flower. It’s a form of clothing. LOL!
And I thought it was a reference to female genitalia.. *sigh*
your themes very nice. but i didn’t see where i can download this themes.
~ LuxBeach
Sorry, they’re not meant for download. These are made for myself. I plan to make some for download in the near future.
Great theme and good job with the illustration, it came out really well! I’m loving the colors.
Hey Ivy! I came across your new layout via the link on Teddy’s site. This is definitely one hell of a change- for the better!
Its obvious that you always put a lot of effort into the design and the coding of your layouts. You make me feel ashamed going to all that effort to code for IE6 users- I am so lazy, I would never have gone to that extent, it shows how dedicated you are to your site.
And thank you for the little notice about my layout, I have it fixed now, and hopefully there shouldn’t be anymore issues *fingers crossed*
so preeeetty! you are craaazy!
Its beautiful! I absolutely love it. Great job
Tag! You’re it!
you really put a lot of work into your layout o_o and it turned out really well! I totally suck at making layouts with dark backgrounds, so mine usually have white as basic color ^^;
IE6 problem, hm? I usually just check if it works in IE7 and firefox…people should just use firefox, would be so much easier ~_~
You layout looks really good. I love the original color combo. However, I think the background repetition is a bit unflattering to the eyes, maybe if you have a fixed background, it’ll look less busy and distracting. Overall I really love the creativity. =]
I experimented with the fixed background idea. It looks alright but it doesn’t show off the illustration, which is the main point of the background in this layout. Since this isn’t your typical layout where there is a header graphic, the layout’s graphics is 100% contingent on the aesthetics of the background, so by fixing it will render the aesthetics quite useless. Also, the background is made to be much longer than the screen to accommodate larger screen users. So, if I fix the background, those on the smaller screen like 800×600 or 1024×738 will not able to see the full extent of the graphic, making it quite ugly for them.
The background only distracts from the content when people madly try to scroll through the site. I don’t find it difficult to read or distracting when the site is slowly scrolled down to read line-by-line - which, of course, would be the main point of a blog. I’m currently looking for a paged comment plugin to prevent further scrolling. Maybe when that’s installed, you won’t find it distracting anymore.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Halley’s got a point though. The “white hue” around the (awsome!) flower is very irritating for the eyes when scrolling…
oh wow, gorgeous layout Ivy! You put so much effort into your work! each individual petal…
Where are all the naked women? Remind me why I’m coming here again…
