Tue 2008/12/30 09:24
If you have a burogu then you may (or may not) be interested in a dannychoo.com theme for Wordpress created by talented CSS designer YoU. Have a look at http://theakiba.com/ to see how he implemented it and you can download it here. You may get confused for a second as to what site you are on ^^; I've tested it in my Localhost and it works fine. I would suggest you play around with the colors and background graphics to style it to your original recipe. Just a note to say that I cannot be responsible for any data loss or slaps to the face by your girlfriend as a result from installing the theme - blame YoU instead (joke ^^;) Parts of dannychoo.com itself runs on a proprietary platform called Mirai Gaia - the other parts are old legacy software. Will be fully migrated in 2009. Learned most of my CSS by looking at how others wrote theirs. You can learn a load from W3 Schools and by looking at the CSS code from the sites featured on Tech Crunch. The first full CSS page I ever made was my profile page - before that it was full of Table tags which are only meant for tabular data. Would be interesting to know how many of you code HTML/CSS?
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Scientist, unemployed.
Sadly, LiveJournal does not allow for stuff like this without money. And since I bite at coding (Have done okay with HTML, but not so good with the rest of it.) I can't work it at all.
(ID #429068) Posted on 2008/12/30 09:36
Kokoro Kotonoha's personal trainer
Livejournal is old news. :p
(ID #429134) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:28
Whut? O.o *technology illiterate* It looks great! I'm sure people will like!
(ID #429069) Posted on 2008/12/30 09:38
LOL. I had to answer no to the question, which would make me "technology illiterate"? I think that's the first time I ended up being classified like that XD The thing is that I'm an electrical engineer and and this means that not only can I code quite a lot of different languages, I can also design hardware. I just never cared for making homepages for some reason so I never bothered to learn html. I'm sure I would be able to code it overnight if I have to though XD
(ID #429202) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:05
Blogger & Former Tentacle Support
I might be using this as my new theme, once I customize it for myself that is!
(ID #429262) Posted on 2008/12/30 12:17
Love CSS design, gives you so much more flexibility than tables!
(ID #429071) Posted on 2008/12/30 09:41
soon-to-be 2nd year Civil Engineering student
Looks real nice... but currently using blogspot. Will find some time to figure out Wordpress and migrate over soon...
(ID #429075) Posted on 2008/12/30 09:44
student , otaku and awesome blogger
i learned HTML and Java on my own when i started blogging. I thinking of picking up some books on HTML and Java to learn some more.
(ID #429077) Posted on 2008/12/30 09:47
student , otaku and awesome blogger
by the way, this post reminds me of that post you had a while back with about the person who copied your old layout.
(ID #429085) Posted on 2008/12/30 09:59
Aeronautical Engineer
Well this just spurred me to get back and actually code something... If I do try this one out, I will be mucking around with the code to make a little more personalized...
(ID #429080) Posted on 2008/12/30 09:49
Student / otaku
It looks really nice but it's kind of disturbing to use the same layout of your website :p
(ID #429089) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:00
五〇一軍团 TK8316 Singapore Garrison Public Relations Officer
i learnt a bit of HTML when I was in school. Back then, all we have is a notepad and we code everything ourselves. will love to learn CSS. :)
(ID #429098) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:08
Troubleshooter, Universal Exports
I need get started on my personal project -that went on hold after summer- to improve my HTML and CSS. Really want to get back to jQuery and move on to other things like PHP... Yes, I learn a lot from other people's code as well. If anyone is interested in using books, both "Head First" and "The Missing Manual" book series are good starters.
(ID #429101) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:10
university film student
^^; It's interesting, but...I'd be rather annoyed if someone copied my design. Then again, imitation's the best form of flattery, no? I've wanted to learn how to code CSS for awhile, and barely got started during this break. Want to start working on a Wordpress theme, but keep procastinating.
(ID #429103) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:11
university film student
Read YoU's page more carefully, and he did check with you, so I guess that answers my concerns a lot. :P
(ID #429106) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:12
When first making this theme, I didn't really wanna make it such an identical one to DC.com, so I changed the color and twisted the layout. But, well, it "happened" to be the same after I customized some parts^o^. If you dont like this one you may consider it as a test for fun. I think Danny really "hurt" a lot of people by bring such a big site and those figure stuffs ^o^
(ID #429219) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:28
Engineer / Student
Sweet :) Might give it a try since I'm looking to skin my work-in-progress personal blog for some time now. I'll probably tweak the colour scheme and images a bit (to be on the waifu's safe side, haha!) Thanks to YoU ^o^ Have some idea about CSS but can't really code from scratch. Used to do the early versions of my website by notepad in html ^_^, and then experimented with CSS for a while... that was such a long time ago before packaged open-source stuff become so readily available. Anyway, for the next phase of my website I'm thinking of going back to manual coding with notepad and some CSS, since I can't really find any suitable open-source blog or content management solution that fits the idea of how I want to layout my contents...
(ID #429125) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:23
Really nice work! Hope he puts it on wordpress.com defaults theme ;)
(ID #429129) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:25
Once you have understand the capabilities with CSS - you will never work with just HTML ...
(ID #429131) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:26
Kokoro Kotonoha's personal trainer
Hmm, just like Danny said, i'll play with it a bit and see if it turns out to be a good addition to my new blog at Wordpress. Though if it looks like the layout on the http://theakiba.com/ link then i might not like it. I don't like thumbnails for locating my articles.
(ID #429140) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:31
I actually major in advertising and graphic design for the web. It's always fun to learn more about what you can do though. Nice wordpress theme there. And yes CSS is an incredible tool for the designer. ^_^
(ID #429169) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:51
Student, Otaku, She-Geek(Sheek lol)
That is BEYOND cool. But as I'm not wordpress.org yet, I dont think I can use it... sucks... I'd love to make it pink....or blue..... or stripey..... lol. So clever though. Confusing as hell hehe.
(ID #429172) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:52
Make it completely grayscale... then whenever new people enter, they will go "what happened to the colours?" XD Some people really code pranks into their homepages. I once noticed a black pixel and thought it was odd that a black pixel was in the middle of nowhere on that homepage. I scrolled a bit and the pixel stayed on the same localtion and I thought "oh no, I got a dead pixel". Then I started moving the browser window and the "dead" pixel moved. For some reason somebody coded a black pixel into the homepage that should stay at a certain position in the window, even when scrolling. I laughed really hard when I realised what it was, but I have to admit, I was tricked at first XD
(ID #429205) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:10
Orange (Registered on 2008/06/12 14:07)
Interesting theme, lol. Time to mirror this DC.com completely! Just kidding. :P
(ID #429180) Posted on 2008/12/30 10:54
Haven't started my own blog yet, but I thought about blogger.com, but since this came up I might go with wordpress now...so which is more recommended?...
(ID #429195) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:01
college student
i would love to learn CSS...i dont even know how that work...sadly....*sigh
(ID #429198) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:02
former Emperor of Britannia
Learned CSS through different sites. Hmmm.. looking at the theme at the moment and all i could say is that it will blend well depending on what kind of blog are you running (target readers) Overall it's one awesome skin. I'll be keeping a copy of this and maybe tinker with it a little to suit my taste especially now that i'm starting to plan on changing my site skin again.
(ID #429216) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:24
I know some HTML, I plan on learning more and CSS too but now I am learnin Python.
(ID #429237) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:53
Trendspotter Busybody Mercenaries
if only there is a blogspot theme version ........
(ID #429242) Posted on 2008/12/30 11:59
Student/Music Producer/Web Designer
Ha! That's really cool- I'd download it just to see how he did the CSS. I prefer individual creativity, though. *pokes own website* Excellent job, YoU. ^^
(ID #429246) Posted on 2008/12/30 12:03
Web Designer
looks so... dannychoo :D but I prefer my own design.
(ID #429256) Posted on 2008/12/30 12:10
Service desk support
well, I'm on wordpress.com and they pretty much don't allow anything outside it's own presets... But I quite like my current theme as I don't like to see things cluttered so even if I could use this theme, I probably wouldn't. But first things first, I'd need a private host if I want to use a custom theme...
(ID #429260) Posted on 2008/12/30 12:12
Hotdog Repairman
LoL! Since Danny is so highly influencial in the possibilty of me creating a blog, I'm almost obligated to try it out. Not that I'm starting one mind you... =P
(ID #429299) Posted on 2008/12/30 13:00
Black Knight, White King
I learned most of my stuff looking at other people sites. But I eventually started buying books and researching different things from other sites to learn some things. I really like that wordpress theme, he did a good job at emulating DC.com. But I prefer to try my own creations because I would like my site to reflect my style.
(ID #429305) Posted on 2008/12/30 13:03
Self Employee NEET
my website fully made from scratch. Using PHP, HTML, and CSS. But now stuck on the admin area. I need to learn AJAX...
(ID #429314) Posted on 2008/12/30 13:14
except the font size being a bit different here and there, almost everything seems to have been copied well. IMO being a clone of another site is a bit too much - no individuality i guess. css is part of my job everyday. i'd rather spend some time and make my own theme on my site than copy a design from another site. else then it means a designers block. :( and since i'm on blogger, designing a custom theme for it is quite hard. for each line changed you need to preview the site >.< Hosting my own site with a customized theme would be faster and painless than making a theme for blogger.
(ID #429315) Posted on 2008/12/30 13:17
Gonna steal some CSS codes from it ^^
(ID #429332) Posted on 2008/12/30 13:37
Amusing, and confusing. Would like to blog but my subjects might not be interesting to most people.
(ID #429353) Posted on 2008/12/30 13:51
Student, part-time Haruhi wannabe (that bit about godhood etc)
Looks nice, but I think I'll stick to my own theme. Would probably end up confusing myself if I used the DC theme^^;
(ID #429373) Posted on 2008/12/30 14:05
UWAAA that really was confusing. I used to do both CSS and HTML but now its been a long time since ive done any coding so i dont think i can anymore (_ _);;;
(ID #429382) Posted on 2008/12/30 14:10
It's a good idea and I quite like the magazine style layout but it's too identical with dc.com, maybe you just want to tweak it a little ^^" I started to self learn html then css back in 1999 or so. Good ol notepad days.
(ID #429414) Posted on 2008/12/30 14:39
Daigakusei [Consular and Diplomatic Affairs]
wicked nice!!! thumbs up^^
(ID #429469) Posted on 2008/12/30 15:36
Administrative Assistant
As cool as it would be, I'm quite happy with my current theme (Though I'm STILL trying to figue out how to fix a few words on the main Page). Whle I love Danny's site, I'm not out to mimic him. Just be inspired by him (As many of us here probably are) As for learning CSS, I've sort of been self teaching myself CSS by way of my own blog. Though a class I had years ago touched on it enough that I remember a few things. Not sure I could code it from scratch though.
(ID #429492) Posted on 2008/12/30 16:04
This looks great. I'll expect myself to customise it heavily though. Nevertheless good job! ^o^
(ID #429500) Posted on 2008/12/30 16:09
Student & Part time worker in a Day Care
learned a bit of html and css in high school and intro to digital media in college, interesting to learn but hard to actually put something interesting together.
(ID #429512) Posted on 2008/12/30 16:14
cool Theme ! ;P
(ID #429542) Posted on 2008/12/30 16:29
Student during the day, otaku at night, and amateur musician ^_^
Awesome! Been waiting for it ever since I saw your site.. Glad that it's finally here ^_^
(ID #429551) Posted on 2008/12/30 16:35
Geek Liaison
While I do HTML ok I've banged my head on the desk many times trying to figure out CSS and trying to get my own theme working with Wordpress. I might spend some time next year trying it one more time.
(ID #429597) Posted on 2008/12/30 17:38
i do it too,i can start HTML from stretch, but not CSS i can only modify CSS..haha
(ID #429599) Posted on 2008/12/30 17:44
Motion Graphics Designer
ooo, i might give this a try since i'm using wordpress at the moment. might migrate to my own domain and try our joomla later, that's the master plan. lol.
(ID #429622) Posted on 2008/12/30 18:18
Student and full-time otaku
I've bookmarked those links, in case I ever have the time to learn CSS etc...whish I had a purpose for it so I'd have an excuse and the motivation to start learning.
(ID #429624) Posted on 2008/12/30 18:20
Student
Good attempt at the same theme but, I recognise all the Wordpress elements already! Would be great to throw in some PHP code to add more functionality such as the Puchi Blurbs. I used to code my websites by hand with notepad too but, I'm out-of-date with all the more recent technologies. Will have to pick up more on CSS to design my own theme... Maybe PHP and AJAX too so that I can just build my own blogging platform.
(ID #429626) Posted on 2008/12/30 18:26
JR. College Student
I know some basic HTML stuff... but nothing major... and CSS is beyond me. Would like to know more... but I don't think it's something I want to spend a lot of time on... and I know it probably takes a lot of time to master and memorize. Like a second language...
(ID #429635) Posted on 2008/12/30 18:37
MI Manager, Blogger and Newswriter
Cool theme,thanks for the tips ^^
(ID #429658) Posted on 2008/12/30 19:07
I cant make my own yet, only helped my friends to modify it abit ^^; but am learning!!
(ID #429659) Posted on 2008/12/30 19:09
Lurker, and part time super-villian.
I've only just got used to my layout... and I'm not allowed to edit my CSS even if i knew how! Sad times ^^;
(ID #429660) Posted on 2008/12/30 19:09
Policy & Research Officer
Wohoo hopefully everyone uses the dannychoo theme, that way my blog theme will be unique. =P But still, props for a great theme.
(ID #429676) Posted on 2008/12/30 19:46
Programmer Trainee
Damn all we need now is someone from Blogspot to make something like this. I know how CSS and HTML work, but am really stupid to make my own layouts with CSS or HTML. I can read codes though
(ID #429678) Posted on 2008/12/30 19:49
Otaku, Gamer, Blogger
I've messed around with HTML and CSS. I was actually comtemplating on making an original WordPress theme myself, but I have trouble getting the PHP to work, even following the WordPress Codex. I'll get it someday, but for now, I may take a look into this theme... :D
(ID #429695) Posted on 2008/12/30 20:32
Already know some xml and html, a little less CSS, so need to learn more, especially doing CSS design. >..slaps to the face by your girlfriend.. No one can do that:P
(ID #429702) Posted on 2008/12/30 20:46
graduate studant (TV Broadcasting & Cinema )
Not yet, but i will... ^_^ now in january i will star a technical course in Web design and Web developer, where i will learn dreamweaver, html, php, etc... i'm excited to start learning more of this web stuff xD
(ID #429726) Posted on 2008/12/30 21:08
Glad you mentioned W3 Schools, I've been using their site quite a bit recently whilst I program my own website. Also invaluable is the online documentation at php.net, always helpful for finding useful functions to try and make life easier! Hope to have the website up and running sometime in the first quarter of the New Year ^^
(ID #429730) Posted on 2008/12/30 21:11
I really thought I was browsing dannychoo.com at first glance. Know nothing about coding, but would like to learn a bit.
(ID #429764) Posted on 2008/12/30 22:02
I enjoy coding both HTML and CSS....But unfortunately, i only now the basics...
(ID #429800) Posted on 2008/12/30 22:39
basics for me, can't choose a proper colour scheme though but this is wicked! kudos to YoU
(ID #429825) Posted on 2008/12/30 23:04
OMG the similarity is uncanny. Great job YoU! I've been coding HTML/CSS for a while now. But my designs always looked funny. Guess I'm not much of a web designer after all ^^; I'm better at PHP and Perl. But I am trying to improve my CSS skills. Sites like www.cssbeauty.com give me inspiration.
(ID #429886) Posted on 2008/12/31 00:26
anime/cosplay events organizer
wow! YoU's CSS skillz are awesome! thanks a lot for sharing the wordpress theme ^_______________^ i code html and css but i only know basic codes ^^;;;
(ID #429981) Posted on 2008/12/31 02:16
~Undine~
I do code some html and css but it's fairly basic stuff, nothing fancy as here. ^^
(ID #430020) Posted on 2008/12/31 03:00
i know html and css,but just the basic stuff. BTW, this theme was awesome, can learn something from the code too I think.
(ID #430025) Posted on 2008/12/31 03:06
Web Design & Development
To be honest, I've never really liked the Danny Choo theme much. It's too crowded in some spaces and too barren in others. Plus there isn't much defining seperation between different areas. One would think there would atleast be <hr /> blocks seperating the different sections of the page. I do like the colors though, and the layout is nice too. I think I'll stick to what I've got right now, I'm quite fond of it. ^_^
(ID #430089) Posted on 2008/12/31 04:47
Product Manager and 3D Sculptor
Very nice wordpress theme! I will try it (and tweak it) for sure tomorrow on my blog! Thanks YoU for this nice blog (and to Danny too!)
(ID #430260) Posted on 2008/12/31 08:28
anime, programmer, gfx designer, illustrator ^^
wow its so nice ^^ i like it allot ^^
(ID #430338) Posted on 2008/12/31 10:42
This is one of your posts that come once in a while that make me want to learn how to code, buy a site name, and start blogging. I must do it soon!
(ID #430341) Posted on 2008/12/31 10:45
Pokemon master
I bet this would be perfect for April Fools. >:3
(ID #430772) Posted on 2008/12/31 18:29
I try to upload my poll and being rejected....???? after 2-3 rejection,I carefully read the reason....so I am still too new here. I think I have to comment everyday to make poll....right?
(ID #472692) Posted on 2009/02/03 15:00
Webdesigner
Hi there :) I used the template provided on my blog by theakiba with my own colors :) =>http://www.fictionjunction.be/ I will modify it a bit to make it less "dannychoo"-like. I'll let it online a few days to see how my visitors like it :) Thank you very much Danny for this!
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