New Layout: Arthemia on Yukan!
The new layouts finally up and running… kinda, still needs a few adjustments read more for details ^^
Well it took a little time than expected ^^; but the new layout has been activated and seems to be working nicely… I hope. The original theme is called Arthemia by Michael Jubel, have a look at the original its not that much different, for now lol. Blissmo pointed out this magazine theme quite some time ago and at first glance I really liked it. It has a nice clean look and feel, which is quite different to the old Yukan theme which had a much darker colour theme. As with many other layouts its never as simple as just activating and watching everything work nicely. If you don’t know, a hobby of mine is working with computer graphics, I enjoy creating and editing images, I enjoy customizing and creating layouts and its great watching them actually work lol. However unfortunately I’m quite horrible when it comes to coding. We’ll the rest of this post probably wont interest most of you so I put in a few cool pics for you guys to look at while I rant about the technicalities of the new layout.
(Yay Shana ^^ btw I really like the second OP Joint)
Moving along, I removed the duel column sidebar that existed in the original and left Arthemia with a single column side bar we’ve all grown used to. I also got rid of the rounded top and made it kinda like the old Yukan theme, with the navigation bar stuck to the top of the browser and the rotating banner (which is working properly in firefox and ie now) beneath it.
Now onto my complaints… Firstly the layout width, you probably haven’t noticed (namely because you haven’t seen the original theme) Yukan’s width requirements were too large for the original Arthemia theme. Actually now that I think about it increasing the with of the overall layout wasn’t that tedious. Well the next thing really pissed me off, I wonder if anyone is bothering to read this far, I’ll start another paragraph in an attempt to catch more attention and of course use it as a chance to insert cool looking images.
(*Inserts cool meaningless image along with text in Italics for added coolness)
Apparently the writers of Yukan were meant to follow some guidelines so that the posts looked nice and neat. Working with the new layout made me realized this isn’t so…shame on you T_T. Well Blissmo is partly to blame, I find the easiest method when adding images to a post is to have no coding placed along with the images. This is especially important when it comes to inserting those six images. The spacing in between the images need to be even, when somethings not even it really shits me. I’m kinda like that Death the Kid guy from Soul Eater when it comes to layouts lol and other things. So ye it really shits me…
(This text is only for visual appeal, blah blah now its long enough)
Anyway like I was saying its best to have no “custom code/styling” as the css within the theme will magically do it for you. Hmm maybe an example will be easier to understand. Ryuk the shinigami tells you to sacrifice one apple to him a day. He really likes apples and if he sees one he has to eat it, but he’s on a diet and if he eats too many apples he will go on a freaken rampage. On one fine day someone decides to comes along and sacrifice another apple to Ryuk. ZOMGWTFBBQ! How many apples do we have? TWO! Thats right TWO F^#@ING APPLES, and how many does Ryuk want… ONE! thats right one… and now your all dead. If your still confused then let me reiterate, Mr CSS Style Sheet puts an restraining order of 5 pixles away from everything on Mr Image(1), However some one comes along and tells Mr Image(1) to stay another 5 pixles away from Mr Image(2). Oh no what has happened? Mr Image(1) is now 10 pixles away from Mr Image(2), and is now currently HUMPING THE SIDEBAR. Mr layout becomes completely F’ed up and fixing it is just too complicated. Ok, thats my complaints, hopefully new guidelines will make things more simpler and less painful, remember guys one apple is enough, and we don’t want Images humping the sidebar.
(If you haven’t heard Melt by Hatsune Miku, go visit Nico Nico now!, in a new tab of course)
I hope you enjoyed the images, I’ll be sure to bring you more the next time I post. New guidelines will be made to resolve apple amount issues and Images humping anything will be dealt with shortly. Allot of adjustments will need to be made so that Death the Kid doesn’t die from spasms. We also need new banners but I think Blissmo mentioned something. Anyway, I’ve spent way too long typing all this, I sure hope some one reads it T_T.
Omg the post is appearing twice -.-, well I expected it, umm Blissmo I can remove Headline and Featured posts from appearing in the main content area if you want, Its probably a good idia since it’ll look weird with two of the same post. Also we need some posts to feature so I can get rid of those random Featured posts that were just used for testing. A good one for now would be the manifest post you just made, we need three more though.
lols, poor you! I read everything and it’s lovely to have someone grumpy on the team (except otou-san—-he’s always grumpy). And the pictures made it a lot easier to read as well
I’ll change the “guidelines” if you want, you know, because with this 24″ LCD screen, everything looks pretty much neat, although the blog does look loads better when everything is even.
>>Blissmo is partly to blame
I should give you a fine
Edit: Let’s see …. how about …. err …. *starts typing up three very important posts*
I’ve no idea, honestly.
Edit 2: And I sent you an email
To all the authors, the images should be humping eachother right now. I’ve purposely added no margins/padding on the images, only a black 1px stroke should be present, I’ll add the padding soon but for now the images you place SHOULD appear right next to eachother with no gaps. New guidelines will be available soon but for now if your going to post the only thing you gotta remember is to just put the image in and add no extra coding to it.
Soul Eater. <3
The code looks fine to me right now.
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OOoooooooo ahhhhhh~
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The new theme looks good, but more importantly, it’s good to know you lot haven’t given up on this blogging business altogether. Yukan was the first group blog I started semi-following, and I was beginning to feel quite lost…
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You know what TokiDoki? I´d love to get an e-mail from you with your MSN adress so we can start talking about the changes you did to Arthemia as I do want to make some of them to my own blog and I have no freaking clue on how you did it.
The banner is one part of it, since I can´t get it to become a padding:0. Unless that´s the only code you used?
CSS is fun to play with and I do also like to screw with themes if they are good written in the CSS as Arthemia pretty much is. I´d love to make some changes as well.
So send me a mail and we´ll look into it, atleast I hope we will.
Otherwise I only have to say: Great job on the theme. I love this theme(and since I´m using it myself at the moment, why shouldn´t I like it?)
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@manga You can e-mail me at tokidokiREMOVE-THIS@animeblogger.net, I don’t use msn much anymore so its probably easier to chat through e-mail like blissmo does lol. Editing themes can be quite the pain depending on what you intend to do and how well you know your coding.
I just realized the recent posts thing at the bottom isn’t working, hmm weird -.-
Sadly hosted by Dasaku…
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The theme is a bit too busy for my tastes. I don’t really know where I’m supposed to be looking on the main page. Well at least Blissmo didn’t bunny suicide during her hiatus.
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A brave soul you are Tokidoki. Leaving your mail out in the open like that. A bit of warning next time or if you want to edit the link. Never type out your e-mail in pure sight as spambots and other stuff can use that even if it is in comments
But ok. I´ll send ya a mail.
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love the new layout… and it’s crappy-internet-connection friendly!
thank god you guys are back… you’ve been missed.
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Posts on the new theme are easier to read with the white background and the arrangement gives the site a crisp feel.
However, having to scroll down to see recent non-feature stories on the front page could quickly become annoying to me as a regular user so please place a Recent Posts box in the sidebar!
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WOOOT. New theme is AWESOME MAN! KEEP UP THE STYLE AND CLASS! <3<3
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The new theme is pretty cool!
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Congrats on the new theme! All my old themes
wereare broketacular, and I really need to find a robust one sometime soon.@manga lol your right, I already get enough spam bot stuff from the contact form I use on my old blog.
I think Blissmo prefers the darker colour theme, I’ll probably just make the adjustments in photoshop first, show everyone and then get a few opinions.
I like it, can’t wait to see the tweaks. Glad to see Yukan back to life.
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I love magazine themes. I found it neat and cool!
…but why “Sadly Hosted By” Dasaku?
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@kanzeon: Because some people have preferences based on Konata knows what. IT’S MADNESS! Also blissmo.. i’ve been bashing it into askimet that you are not a spammer but it just won’t listen to me. STOP SPAMMING YOUR CLASSMATES WITH DBZ YAOI WOULD YOU D:! Maybe then you could comment in peace… I guess i’m no better.
/me stops his auto-sending digimon doujin collection
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Just a welcome back comment, dudes. =) Nice new layout.
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Ohwow. Soul Eater.
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looks nice, I dig it a lot and it’s much easier to read.
That wasn’t grumpy at all!
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love the new layout =3
Wow, it’s an amazing design! Now I’m depressed about my own one, which I coded myself… But it’s always nice to see an anime website without the K2 theme! Congrats!
Oh My Freakin God, I adore you layout. You put alot of work into it. I’m still getting use to the whole wordpress layout thingy,lol. YAY, another dasaku family member,haha.
I love magazine themes x)
beautiful, superb, aesthetically-pleasing site you have here. love it. I’m a fan.
I love the 5cms layout, more relaxing images and pure cuteness above.
I might steal parts of this layout sometimewhere did you get that miku image? me wants. :3
I think it was somewhere on deviantart, give hatsune miku a search there and it should pop up
@ TokiDoki how do you get rid of the duplicate posts in the main section of the site?
@Liberty: I sent you an e-mail that might help.
Hi, nice to meet you here!
Sorry to bother you. I have a question about the theme.
I have problem with setting up recent posts list in my blog with this theme.
Would you mind sharing with me the code of yours?
Thanks and regards!
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