So I dinked around with the backed of the site…I had originally decided to hold off on updating for a while…but then I found a work around to and issue I was having that you all probably didn’t even notice.

When ever I wanted the comic to display two pages on the same update I HAD to combine the two pages into one page in Photoshop…which was easier enough…but it meant I had to save, and resave, each ‘doubled’ page four times…why? I’ve gotten into saving a ‘highrez’ version of each comic…just in case there’s ever a call for a book (I know, I know. I’m entitled to a dream or two, right? haha). So it was a HUGE pain in my ass.

Which brings me to my little not to Internet Explorer users. Anyone on IE probably sees the top comic slightly over to the right…due to that glaring red ‘X’ beside it. I’m not sure why by the script I’m using to display doubled-size comics forces two red ‘can’t find image’ Xs’. One after each comic posted.

Why?

@#$%ed if I know. But I’m working on it. I promise

Anyone on FireFox, you just see a second ‘title’ at the bottom of the second comic…again…I don’t know why. But I’m willing to bet it’s related and I’m working on it.

Now that I’ve gotten the unpleasantness of the ‘broken’ things out of the way lets talk about what WORKS!! Which is, thank the gods, most of the changes I’ve implemented.

First you all probably noticed the change in color in the side bars…I actually have other plans for over there but until I work somethings out I just decided to settle with a nice, new, color. I’ll play with it some in the next few weeks, but until I work out my plans the green will just have to suffice, eh?

ALSO! Proper navigation! ::does a little jig::

You have NO idea how much I hated the old navigation. It was so basic and confusing as far as I was concerned. This is much nicer!

We’ve got familiar arrows and double arrows pointing you towards the comics. Which is much more intuitive in my book. I didn’t upload my old arrows from the last site since they looked out of place in the new ’sleek’ design, but I intend to fiddle with the site a little more to make it ‘mine’ instead of this current template-y look I’m rocking.

Like I said, most of the changes were backed stuff…But some more ‘visable’ things you can check out are:
-Title and date are now at the top-left of the comic, not bottom middle.
-I changed the weight and size of the blog text
-Re-added the search bar to the right of the blog
-Organized the blog area a little differently, it’s more ‘balanced’ as far as I’m concerned.
-Made it easier to update the top ‘notice’ area and I changed the ‘vote/stumble’ area (still trying to think of incentives.)
- I fixed the stories section, if you haven’t been over there lately it was a mess…some things wouldn’t even display for some reason. I normalized everything and fixed a whole slew of formatting problems. (To anyone who was over there recently, sorry. I didn’t even notice it was busted.)

That’s all I can think of rightnow…

It looks much better, I think. But input and suggestions to better suit your needs are always welcome. I’m planning on revamping the links page and updating the minor-character roster (probably after this arc).

Well…I’m off to try and fix the red-x thing. After I finnish some homework.

Don’t tell my professor I was slacking off and playing with the comic. Shh.

-Peace