November 3rd, 2006
Comic #90 “Eruption”
Holy crap.
We’re at NINETY comics? We’ve done this whole deal NINETY times? Sure doesn’t feel like it. Maybe it will at 190. We’ll see.
In any case, the topic for today, and this weekend, is for you! loyal reader. We’re looking to rehash and revamp the site for 2007, and we want YOUR input. What is currently missing from the site/needs to be improved in a new design? All ideas are welcome, only some will be laughed at.
Leave your thoughts in the comments, and we’ll get to work! Thanks as always for reading, guys!
November 3rd, 2006 at 9:45 am
i think it will be cool to have more animations, so is it possible that you can have a flash layout?
November 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 pm
You need sparkly, blinged-out fonts. And a bunch of animated gifs (perhaps some of dancing penguins?). And this black background? Pfft! You need to find the most obnoxious, neon color you can and then make the script on the page an equally obnoxious neon color so that your readers’ eyeballs bleed. You need to make sure it takes a full hour to load each page. Then you will have acheived true web-design success.
But really! The site is pretty good as is. Simple and functional.
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Optimize the layout for web standards. It is currently pretty broken in Firefox. That is, unless the idea was to have this randomly floating sidebar on the bottom of the page all by itself. I’d opt for clever CSS over flash. Some flash gets broken when people have Javascript blocked (which smart people do be default). Maybe do PDF downoads of the comic broken down into “issues” of about 24-32 pages (your standard comic size) each. Dems my suggestions at any rate.
November 3rd, 2006 at 4:34 pm
Soapbox, yours isn’t the first complaint I’ve heard of the sidebar being broken, yet when I view it in IE and Firefox at work, home, and the homes of others, I don’t replicate the issue.
I’ll admit, I’m retarded when it comes to CSS…any idea what might be causing it?
November 4th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
The main page displays fine. It’s when you’re on the page for the individual entry that’s a bit wonky. I’ll look at the code and see if anything jumps out at me. Since I read from the RSS Feed, it goes directly to the page for the newest post, not the main page, so I always get the broken stuff. I’ll see if I can figure it out.
November 5th, 2006 at 3:48 am
OH! Yeah. That’s one of the issues that I’m not sure how it happened. Like, it worked normal (the comments are supposed to appear below the entry), and then arbitrarily it started doing this issue a few updates in, without me editing the code (shy of entering the ad banners and such). Please update me if you find anything.