…since I last wrote an entry. I’ve been working hard and resting hard (apparently, not hard enough since I’m pretty sick right now). So here are some highlights over the past month. Featured on Web Design Galleries Big thanks to all the CSS galleries and web design blogs for featuring my latest theme, Nami. And…
Nanyate.com finally gets a new theme for 2010! It’s called 波 nami – Japanese for wave. Not much inspiration here; I simply grew tired of looking at serif fonts on white background. Every blog seems to be going to the minimalist, serif route, so I decided to bring back some color and some sans-serif into…
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…
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; it’s…
[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. [/narcissism] How to participate? Your website must be…
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…
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…
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