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…
As some of you may have noticed, my site structure has changed since the migration to the new servers. I streamlined the pages in preparation for my new theme; a new theme that is going to be radically different from anything I have ever designed.
Not that it’s going to look revolutionary or anything;…
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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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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…
Warning: Absolute vodka geekery ahead!
A new theme at Nanyate?! will always be accompanied with some awesome new plugins. So here are the chosen ones.
1. @Reply with Comment Preview Plugin
Since I wanted to keep this design clean, I have reluctantly removed Wordpress Thread Comments and WP Paged Comments. It is now replaced with a Twitter-esque comment…
After I saw C-class designers copying my previous theme, I felt compelled to come up with something new. So here is something I created in less than a day. It’s nowhere as pretty as my last layout, but I tried my best given my time constraint!
This theme is called ‘Torii’, which is the gate into…
Anthony Bourdain on food bloggers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEsJhBIOffA (don't shoot the messenger!) # 
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