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. 
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. 
26 November, 2009 at 4:11 am
*cuteness overload* My favourite is the pig, but I’m seriously biased because I love pink pigs XD
26 November, 2009 at 1:13 am
Amazing art again Dayna! OMG SOO CUUTE! and all these animals have their personalities! And you work quickly! I always take a long time to make a layout and code. urgh this is why I don’t want to do it XD hahaa. LOVE the new layout!
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25 November, 2009 at 11:27 pm
wow your very talented.. im a fan.. wee
love the header..
25 November, 2009 at 10:35 am
Awww
I haven’t been commenting for awhile. Anyway, this layout looks awesome! The introduction is great too. I love your skills.
By the way, do you think you should change your smilies? It has been there for a loooooooong time already.
25 November, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I don’t plan to change my smilies at all. I love this set and it’s universal enough to match with any layouts.
24 November, 2009 at 9:22 pm
Hey Dayna
This is one awesome new layout for sure
You are soo talented when it comes to drawing on Photoshop – it’s almost unbelievable 
The animals are all togethe really cute and yes, the bear looks like a bear
Though Hunny is for sure my favorite one.
I also really like all the colors you used on this layout
And I think it’s cool that you didn’t go for a “typical” christmas theme for christmas season.
24 November, 2009 at 9:13 pm
New layout at amourchaleur.com: Zoo Mania – http://bit.ly/8scDkn
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24 November, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Aww so cute!
24 November, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I love your new header… it’s super cute!
I wish I had that much talent to draw all those cute animals.
24 November, 2009 at 1:16 pm
I made some changes to the details of the theme so that it’s matching. Have you checked out amourchaleur.com new theme? http://bit.ly/8scDkn
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24 November, 2009 at 10:52 am
Omg this is so cute! I love it! How do you do all this?
24 November, 2009 at 9:46 am
Cute!!!!! I love the piggy!!
24 November, 2009 at 7:30 am
waww,,this one is really a brilliant one,,.love the cute bear