To celebrate Christmas this season, I have launched a new layout – Zoo Mania. I wasn’t lazy this time and drew the illustration from scratch in Photoshop. Perhaps this is to make up for the previous layout where I dump everything from my old layouts together. Zoo Mania took me around 4 hours to draw the illustration and another 4 hours to code it. Did I mention how much I dislike coding layouts? Drawing is a really enjoyable process but coding is totally the opposite. The debugging process is a headache as well.
Even though you can’t see major changes in the style, I did changed the header styles. I left the comments, page navigation and footer untouched because I like it as it is now. I swear I wasn’t trying to be lazy. :P Before I introduce the main characters of this layout, I would like to thank Scholar for giving me constructive criticism and advice on how to improve this illustration. 
Edit on 24 November: I ended up editing the minor style details like the page navigation, read more links, comments navigation and the footer etc because I feel that the previous styles didn’t really match the new theme. It’s more colourful now and looks like a new theme.
Let the introduction begins… …
The Zoo Mania Team
I actually like this layout. It’s been some time since I draw in Photoshop and I really enjoyed the time spend on this. I hope you like it as much as I do. 
3 December, 2009 at 1:48 am
your layouts are always so amazing, and they keep getting better and better
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29 November, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Oh my goodness I adore your layout, as always! I love the introduction of your characters! You always put so much thought into your layouts! I love it!
27 November, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Gotta love your layout as usual, Dayna
Yup, almost the same structure but the header’s adorable! I’ve never tried drawing anything on illustrator before. Like I said, I love your style! Heehee. I also like the fact that each character has a story behind it <3
27 November, 2009 at 12:09 pm
This layout is lovelyyy, like when i look at it im like impressed so much., i know i could never do anything like this. It does look like it would take 4 hours, though it looks simple it looks complicated at the same time haha,, and the introduction is so cute:D
27 November, 2009 at 9:17 am
Once again, you have simply outdone yourself!
This layout is so sweet I think it’s going to give me a mouthful of cavities, LOL! 
=D
I absolutely love the little train track, the way the train’s shaded, the grass and dirt … And of course, each of the uber kawaii characters!
Awww, it’s completely lovely, you did an amazing job!