harrison: Your remark about Hogwarts cracked me up! Surely most people know about Hogwarts! I love how you drew the connection between this layout and the Harry Potter and LOTR series. Those are my two all-time favorite trilogies!

Mandy: Finally! Someone who really pays attention to the fine details! I find that people rarely care about these, especially if they serve only aesthetic purposes.

If you are referring to the purple layout I did with all the similar leaves, then it should be version 2. My, that’s 3 years ago!

I haven’t really experienced the same problem you have with the page loading/scrolling. Hopefully the problem somewhat fixes itself overtime, because for now I don’t really know how to fix it.

alwyn: thanks for the comments! you are definitely one of my most loyal blog followers, having seen probably all my past layouts. we have been talking about meeting up for the longest time - when are you coming home?

xkc: always good to hear from a long-time blog reader. it’s great that you notice and appreciate all the tiny details as well! i put much effort into this, so when someone points it out to me, it really makes my day =)

angeline, xx, ry: thanks for the comments!

View all comments by Veron

i’ve been following your blog for a long while and you always surprise with small details that make ur blog very interesting! Like the close & open inverted commas, the pink feather for the email, simulated building construction for projects….i love every single cute icon you use! VERY nice. Not to mention, i absolutely LOVE this new dreamy look of floating maple leaves and fairyland castle.

Excellent job. :)

xkc View all comments by xkc

indeed, this is one of the most famous castles in european history - no surprise that the inspiration for many fairy tales came from this one. although they say that fairy tales are lies - its just the same as our dreams, things that we desire so strong to become a reality

time really flies, look forwards to the next time we can sit down to something classy (of your choice, of course) and then sip coffee, catch up and talk about life… i think you have much to say…

well, take care and be happy beautiful girl - don’t fret too much about them archives, focus on the future, the next layout - which I look forward to superseeding this one… take care girl! View all comments by alwyn

sorry for the multiple comments. =) View all comments by VoeD

About the no-frames thing, forcing u to open a new page, you can either:
1. wrap your blog entries as DIVs and append its innerHTML whenever the comments link is clicked (u can generate the static content dynamically on the server side); or

2. use ActiveX object and/or XML to pass the content over - essentially using AJAX methods to populate ure content column.

About your flyig leaves, i reckon its generated on the fly (i think) so a solution would be to have a movie loop (it doesnt need to be an obvious obvious and yet can still look very nice) instead of the client having to calculate all the leaf positions.

About your jukebox problem, perhaps using a non-flash one would solve the stopping problem. To prevent it from playing again in the new window, you can try using cookies.

Thats just my nerdy attempt at addressing the bugs u listed. As for my comments, i guess I only have 1: the part where the leaves transition into the castle, the colours seem to be a bit off-sync. Maybe having a softer gradient from all the purple leaves to the green bushes would be sth to try. Other than that, its all thumbs up babe =)

Rgds =) View all comments by VoeD

The Recent Posts thingy at the top is a nice addition, too. I’m not sure why, maybe it was my browser, but your site wouldn’t update right away and there’d be up to 3 posts that’d suddenly show up, and all the scrolling to make sure I hadn’t missed any was a bit tiring on the finger. ^_^ So much post. But that’ll definitely help if it continues.

Plus, you look so lovely in that picture of you. Calm looking. ^_^

Congrats on revamp! View all comments by Mandy

Reminds me of Hogwarts (and for the non-Potter-initiated, that isn’t some skin disorder clinic for pigs).

Also LOTR - you can’t miss the valleys and plains. View all comments by harrison

If you can change item 9 into Nepal, our top 10 will more or less match. Oh yah, i wanna go sahara also, not forgetting Taj Mahal, the greatest structure on earth that was made in the name of Love. Bhutan, greatwall, Nigara Waterfall (read LOST) also View all comments by Chup