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.
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