Neskaya Designs

New Textures

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:14:12 GMT

I'm so sorry for the lack of updates! Real life kicked me in the arse, but I'm going to try to get around to updating on a regular basis again. There's almost 1,000 members in this community - WOW. Thank you so much. I really love you guys. :)

For real updates, here's a texture set. Click on the picture to go to it:

8 icon textures and 1 large texture

The icon request is obviously on hold... sorry about that. ^^

Neskaya now has Textures!

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:54:31 GMT

Really quick here because I've got to run. There's a textures section with two new large 800x600 textures as well as many icon textures.

( Find them Here )

Pixels, New Avatars, Converted Layouts

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:28:42 GMT

I've released a new section for Neskaya - a pixel dump. You can click on the link to see the current collection :] Right now, it's all bunnies - I love bunnies. Here's a few to start you off:

Also, Sagensyg has been super busy with the Pokemon avatars - there's 38 new ones so check them out! Some teasers:

Finally, I converted the last two livejournal layouts into web layouts so enjoy. ^_^

And last thing - I'm interested in starting a few web or LJ projects, big or small, with another dedicated webmaster because I feel things would get done faster if I weren't working alone. :] If you're interested at all, just tell me or e-mail me and I'll end up picking someone. Thank you.

Bleach & Pokemon Avatars, etc.

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:39:15 GMT

Really quick update: I've been extremely busy, but I promise I'll get to finishing your picture icon requests soon. o_x In the meantime, I've shut down advertising (all current advertisers will get to finish their cycle) due to wanting to experiment more, and I have a new affiliate - visit Amber of SmileScan!

Also, thank Sagensyg and Chiyu for submitting new avatars to the site - Pokemon and Bleach icons, respectively. ♥

This update is pretty rushed because I'm in class. xD

New LJ Layouts, Icons, Advertising

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:00:02 GMT

I'm back from vacation, and there has been two new livejournal layouts with a matching avatar to boot - I will be converting both of them to web layouts as soon as I get the time, as well as converting the Beautiful Girl layout to an LJ one. :]

There are 16 new Little Mermaid (Disney) icons. I have a lot more coming as well as some Harry Potter icons, among others coming up. Teasers:

Finally, advertising is back up. I took it down for a few days due to Paypal charging me a transaction fee so that I was only getting 66cents per ad, which really just wasn't worth it. The banner advertising fee is now $2.36 (the 36 cents account for the transaction fee~) now and I hope it will still be worth it for you guys. :] Take a moment to visit all the people advertising here too, because they really help to cover some of the site costs. ♥

Oh, last thing - I will get around to making the icons for the picture icon requests from before my vacation in the next couple days.

New Avatars

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 04:15:17 GMT

26 Full Moon wo Sagashite icons, teasers:

( The Rest Here )

I'm going to be busy and then on vacation until school starts again. I might make some small updates in the next week, but I wouldn't count on it. I'll see you guys after two weeks. Thank you very much for 100+ members~ ♥ I can tell this community is going to grow fast.

Taking Icon Requests of Your Picture --

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 08:42:10 GMT

Post a picture of you and I will iconize you.

Here's an example I worked with:

These are not for public use.

Original Picture

Rules

Obviously I can't make you prove that the picture is you, and I guess I won't really care that much if it isn't you, as long as you don't abuse this and use it to harass people or anything. o_O; If you REALLY don't want to post your picture, you can post something else (ie anime picture or whatever) and I will consider taking the request, but no guarantees.

It will take me up to a week at this time to finish your request. If you're interested, reply to this entry with:

1) Your picture (Preferred: Large, bright [daytime possibly?] pictures - they're easier to work with.)
2) Any preferences (colors, and I don't have to make it cutesy if you would rather have a darker theme, etc)
3) What text you want on the icon, if any.
4) If you have a livejournal, join the community.

I would really appreciate credit on any requested icons that I make - Neskaya.Net (neskayanet). If your picture is too small or of crappy quality, then the icon may not turn out as well. The picture quality does affect the icon quality.

Status 01/31/09. Pretty much caught up! I like some of them that I made much better than others (can't like them all ^^) so if you want to request a different one, feel free~ but if you're requesting again, please do it in a new comment so I will see it. ^_^

Finished
Not for public use - for requester only!

Converted Layouts & New Avatars

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:41:32 GMT

Converting some layouts back and forth:
♥ Made the "Dream, Little Girl" layout into a web template; was originally a livejournal layout.
♥ Made the "Cinnamoroll" layout into a LJ layout by request; was originally a web template.

20 Anime Avatars

( Rest Here )

I also have a new affiliate, Jay of Dragon Rain Designs~ The link is at the site!

LJ Layout // Dream, Little Girl

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:30:18 GMT

Edit: On second thought, I will make this one public so that non-members can see a layout. You'll still have to join the neskayanet community to see any additional LJ layouts that I make. More layouts can be found here. For those of you who are just watching the community but is not a member, if you would like to see my newest addition to the site (livejournal layouts!) then you'll have to join the community. Thanks. ^_^

Dream, Little Girl Layout (Larger Preview)

About the Layout
This is the second LJ design by Neskaya.Net. The image used is from SmileScan and texture from Reminiscent Designs. As always, Neskaya.Net layouts work best in Firefox. It has been tested in Firefox and IE7.

Matching Avatar

If you're using the layout, please put a link to Neskaya.Net and neskayanet in your LJ profile. Thank you.

Installation
1. Go to Customize to select your journal style.

2. Type Flexible Squares into the Search box and apply any of the plain flexible squares (not circular) layouts.

3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page to choose a page setup. Select "2 Column (sidebar on right)."

4. Go to Customize Journal Style and select Custom CSS on the sidebar on your left.

5. For "Use Layout Stylesheets" select No.

6. For "Use layout's stylesheet(s) when including custom external stylesheet" select No.

7. For "Use external stylesheets" select No and leave the "Custom external stylesheet URL" empty.

8. Paste the following code into the "Custom Stylesheet" box:

body {
font-family: verdana;
color: #C63E45;
overflow: auto;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: url(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/8840/bgno8.png) repeat-y left #FFF5F5; }

ul { margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; }
li { margin: 0px;
padding: 0px; }

td {
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
text-align: justify;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

a:link { color: #77276B;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: small-caps;
font-size: 9pt;
font-weight: bold; }

a:link img { border: 0; }

a:visited { color: #77276B;
text-decoration: none;
font-variant: small-caps;
font-size: 9pt;
font-weight: bold; }

a:visited img { border: 0; }

a:hover { color: #D06E6E;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: 1px dotted; }

a:hover img { border: 0; }

p, td, blockquote {
font-size: 12px;
}

blockquote {
border-left: 1px solid#275A77;
padding-left: 10px;
margin: 15px;
}

code, kbd, pre, tt {
font-family: monospace;
}

#content
{
width: 730px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
background: url('http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk62/neskaya/layouts/dreamlittlegirl/img.png') no-repeat top left;
}

#maincontent {
margin-top: 120px;
margin-left: 140px;
margin-right: 50px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
text-align: justify;
z-index: 105;
}

#sidebar {
margin-left: 30px;
margin-top: 415px;
padding: 0px;
font-size: 10px;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
width: 150px;
float: left;
text-align: left;
}

#header {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
letter-spacing: 1px;
text-transform: lowercase;
padding: 0;
margin: 0px;
margin-bottom: 40px;
}

#footer {
width: 100%;
text-align: center;
margin-left: 100px;
height: 91px;
background:url(http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk62/neskaya/layouts/dreamlittlegirl/footer.gif) center no-repeat;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
z-index: 100;
clear: both;
}

ul.navheader
{
padding: 3px;
margin: 0px;
margin-right: 3px;
margin-left: 1px;
background: #FFFFFF;
border: 1px dotted;
opacity: 0.7;
z-index: 60;
}

ul.navheader li {
display: inline;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}

.title{
font-size: 16pt;
font-weight: bold;
color: #DF718E;
position: absolute;
top: 60px;
left: 270px;
z-index: 200;
opacity: 0.8;
}

.subtitle{
font-size: 12pt;
font-weight: bold;
color: #E87C98;
position: absolute;
top: 88px;
left: 340px;
z-index: 201;
opacity: 0.8;
}


/* sidebar */

.defaultuserpic {
text-align: center;
}

.sbarbody {
padding: 0;
}

.sbarbody2 {
list-style: none;
margin: 4px 0 4px 0;
padding: 2px;
line-height: 16px;
text-align: right;
}

table.calendar {
margin-right: auto;
margin-left: auto;
color: #C63E45;
margin-bottom: 500px;
}


.sbarcalendar {
border: 1px dotted;
text-align: center;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}

.sbarcalendarposts {
border: 1px dotted;
text-align: center;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}

ul.sbarlist
{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
}

li.sbaritem
{
list-style: none;
margin: 4px 0 4px 0;
padding: 2px;

}

li.sbartitle, div#sidebar h4
{
list-style: none;
margin: 4px 0 4px 0;
padding-top: 15px;
text-align: right;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
text-transform: lowercase;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}


/* maincontent */

.subcontent {
}

.entry{
margin: 0 0 0 115px;
padding: 0;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 8pt;
text-align: justify;
line-height: 16px;
}

.entry ul li
{
padding-left: 5px;
margin-left: 15px;
}

.entry ol li
{
padding-left: 5px;
margin-left: 15px;
}

.userpic {
display: none;
float: right;
}

.userpicfriends {
position:relative;
float:right;
text-align:center;
font-family:"Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size:11px;
z-index:15;
background: !important;
border: 1px dotted;
margin:5px;
padding:0;
}

.userpicfriends font {
color:#78C5F3 !important;
}

.date {
line-height: 150%;
top: 5px;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: small-caps;
text-align: right;
}

.subject {
font-weight: normal;
padding-bottom: 10px;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
font-variant: small-caps;
letter-spacing: 1px;
text-align: right;
}

.subject a, .subject a:link, .subject a:visited {
}


.subject a:hover {
}

.datesubject {
margin: 0 0 0 115px;
}

.currents, .currentmood, .currentmusic, .ljtags {
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;
}

.ljtags{
font-weight:bold;
margin-top:10px;
}

.comments {
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: right;
padding: 3px;
margin: 0 0 0 -115px;
}


/* maincontent -- entry, reply pages */

.datesubjectcomment {
padding: 5px;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 14px;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #998675;
}

.userpiccomment {
margin: 0 10px 10px 0;
z-index: 15;
float: right;
}

.box {
padding: 10px;
clear: right;
width: 420px;
margin-left: 100px;
font-size: 8pt;
}

input, textarea {
color: #000000;
border: 1px dotted;
}

textarea.textbox {
width: 95% !important;
}

.reply{
position: relative;
margin: 20px 30px 10px 30px;
padding: 25px 10px 10px 10px;
text-align: left;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
line-height: 125%;
background-color: #ffffff;
color: #000000;
}

.replytosubject {
font-weight: bold;
}


.commentreply {
position: relative;
margin: 10px;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
}

.commentbox {
padding: 5px;
margin: 10px 0 10px 0;

}

.commentboxpartial {
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
padding: 10px;
margin: 10px;
background-color: #ffffff;
}

.commentinfo {
background-color: #ffffff;
margin-top: 10px;
width: 100%;
}


/* maincontent -- year/achive pages */

ul.year {
text-align: left;
padding-bottom: 30px;
font-weight: normal;
color: #fff;
font-family: "Verdana", sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
text-transform: lowercase;
letter-spacing: 1px;
}

ul.year li {
display: inline;
}

table.yeartable {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

table.yeartable td.yeardate, table.yeartable td.yearday {

border: 1px solid;
}

table.yeartable td.yearday {
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
border-top: 1px solid;
}

td.yearmonth {
border-bottom: 1px dashed;
}


/* footer */

ul.navfooter{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

ul.navfooter li {
display: inline;
margin: 0 5px 0 5px;
}


.clearfoot {
clear: both;
}


/* misc */

.clear {
height: 0;
}

.skiplinks {
text-align: left;
margin-left: 135px;
font-size: 6pt;
padding-bottom: 10px;
}

.separator{
height: 35px;
}

I really am sorry for the mass amount of entries lately. They will become less when I go back to school in a few days. ^_^ I think I'm starting to get a hang of this LJ designing.

Happy New Year

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:54:02 GMT

Happy New Year, everyone. Hope the year gets off to a great start for you. As for this site, what a great way to end 2008 - yesterday, for the first time, Neskaya broke 1,000 unique visitors in a day. Thank you to everyone for contributing, and I hope to go into 2009 with lots more to come!

No substantial update this time; I changed the monkey picture in the layout, at the side, because of one of the old monkey's ears covering the text. I also want to take this time to plug my button rotation for design sites as well as my topsites. They've been a bit neglected in terms of new members lately, and I hope that my link exchanges and visitors can help me out here. n_n Thanks!

New Avatars

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 20:11:56 GMT

♥ 32 new Cute Girl icons and 60 new Cute Girls icons. Teasers:

( You know where to go. )

Oh, by the way, I know I'm not great with replying to comments in these entries, so I'll just say as a general aside - I appreciate all of them, and thank you. :D

New Avatars

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:19:40 GMT

A shitton of new avatars - 101, to be exact. That's the biggest avatar update yet. :O Tons of new icons in: Q-Lia, San-X, Final Fantasy VII, and Ragnarok Online categories.

Teasers:

[ And view all the avatars here ]

And I'll stop spamming your friends list with updates now. Maybe I'll try to go have a life now, since I've been kinda on an update frenzy the past few days. xD; I'm not even going to update the main page of the site with this update until another day~

New Layout & Avatar

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:09:48 GMT

Just a quick update - one new design and an avatar to match it.

Version 4 Released!

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:20:16 GMT

{ Click for Neskaya.Net }

Yep, I redesigned the site. Merry Christmas, everyone!

I also touched up the button maker so that it makes better buttons now. Here's two that I made as a sample:

I'll update with more content filled posts soon. I do want to say that I think it's very awesome that the community has over 50 members and even more people watching, though. It's not a big number, but considering this is just an updates community I'm very flattered. Thanks, everyone!

Edit: Are people having trouble with the layout in Internet Explorer? I checked it in IE7 before I put it up and it works fine there, but I hear there might be problems with older versions. If you're using an older version, please tell me what's going on, and second, please upgrade already. xD

New Button Maker

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:28:17 GMT

New section: button maker! It's a bunny themed one because I've been collecting bunny pixels. :] Some random examples of what you can make from it:

Use it to make buttons for your website or whatev. An avatar maker is coming up, and maybe I'll make a pixel dump section to post my pixel collections, too. Enjoy~

New Avatars

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:58:15 GMT

Moooore new icons. 51 to be exact, 40 in the Cute Avatars section and rest in the Sanrio avatars. ^_^ I procrastinate too much. Teasers:

New Avatars, Emoticons, Contest

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:48:33 GMT

New Harry Potter, Sanrio, Cute, and Barunson avatars. Teasers:

3 new emoticon sets - ASCII, and 2 Bunny ones.

Also, new contest. Funny Avatar Creation Contest - please submit funny avatars to Neskaya's contest. The winner receives free advertising space on the front page for a month~! (I get over 500 unique hits a day so it's worth it~) Deadline is December 18th.

You probably won't hear too much from me until after my finals are done, sometime around Christmas! :3

New Layout and Avatars

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:00:27 GMT

A new layout - Starlight.

You can preview and download it here. I also added 63 new avatars, with a new category, Food and Drinks icons. Some teasers:

View the rest here. ^_^ Enjoy.

New Avatars

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:37:08 GMT

- 3 new Cute Avatars
- 8 new Funny Icons... mostly elections.

Sorry the quality sucks, but I was rushing to get it done in half hour... for the spirit of the elections tomorrow. ^_^ It's the thought that counts, right? Teasers:

( More Here )

New EVERYTHING!

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:51:03 GMT

Version 3 of Neskaya.Net - went with a minimalistic idea here, although I guess some people are saying the theme is too simple! :( I like it though, so screw them. ^_^

With version 3 comes (excuse the half-arsedness of this LJ entry, I've done a lot of coding and crap today!):

valid xHTML and CSS
Neskaya Topsites - join?
Two New Quizzes - Which Pirate Red Mage Are You and Your Hello Kitty Zodiac.
Emoticon Sets - 27 new ones.
Tutorials - tons of new ones, got rid of some old ones.
Top Links system.
Button Rotation and Plugboard changed locations and have their own subdomains now.
Other stuff. xD I don't know, I can't keep track anymore. Go see for yourself.

Whew.

New Avatars

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:50:05 GMT

A new category with 20 new avatars! Cute Girl #2. :3 Teasers:

Go to Neskaya.Net for more. I'll try to get a non-avatar update in sometime soon.

New Quiz, New Avatars

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:45:52 GMT

New quiz written by Eternal_Lotus:

Neskaya.Net Quizzes: The Rose Quiz

34 new icons in various categories - Harry Potter, Cute Girl, Hannari Tofu, and Final Fantasy VII. Teasers:

New Quiz

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:25:58 GMT

> There is a new quiz - the Classical Elements quiz.

Neskaya: The Classical Elements Quiz

Sorry for the lack of updates recently - I've started law school and have been busy off my arse. You undergrads and high school peeps have it good, trust me. ^_^ I'll try to get some new icons in relatively soon. I also have big plans for the site, but I don't think I have time to implement them within the next oh, year or so... hahah.

New Staff, Flash Tutorial, and Quiz

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:17:11 GMT

1. Welcome Sagensyg to Neskaya's staff. He makes some of the fantastic quiz result images as well as occasionally writes quizzes.

2. I wrote a new Adobe Flash CS3 tutorial on how to incorporate sound into your flash file by adding sound to a button. You can read the tutorial here.

3. A new quiz on Ninjutsu elements! Take the quiz here.

What's Your Classical Ninjutsu Element?

New Flash phpBB3 Skin & Avatars

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:44:47 GMT

I also converted the Sky Bunny layout into a phpBB3 skin - along with all the images I created for the skin, this took me forever! It also happens to be the new Neskaya forum skin.

( View and download the phpBB3 Theme )

Also, seven new Harry Potter avatars submitted by Kes. Much thanks! <3