New Theme: Seigaiha

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…

Best Wordpress Design Award

[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.
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New Theme Finalized, New Plugins & Code

Sorry for the lack of blogging and commenting. When I start designing a new theme, I will code and re-code until I’m happy with it. Looks like someone has a tendency for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Just kidding… I’m just a being a perfectionist.
Anyway, I’m proud to bring you the final release of Yukata Summer,…

New Theme: Yukata Summer (Beta)

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…

IE Footer Finally Fixed!

After digging out my old Sony Vaio sinking under dust bunnies, and many freaking hours of trial and error with the footer, I finally fixed the freaking footer for the foul Internet Explorer. I re-coded the whole layout twice thinking that it’s a float error, only to find out that it was a measly padding…

Nanyate: Springley Edition (Final)

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 You will notice that certain categories have been replaced by tags, and the perpetually “under construction” anime review section…deleted.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…