So, what do you think of the new site? Pretty awesome, yes? Fancy background, dropdown menus, gravitars in the comments section, and more stuff to come. I’m still getting used to it all myself!
Since we had to update our extremely-out-of-date WordPress before we could get our lovely fresh coat of paint, we hired Phil Hofer, also known as Frumph, to help us with this daunting task. Phil, a ComicPress developer, is well known in the webcomic community for his friendly willingness to lend a hand to webcomickers struggling to fix their sites, and for helping dolts like me slowly begin to understand the mysteries of CSS. Shoving all our square-peg files into the round-hole of the new system was a much more complicated task than I even imagined, and I doff my hat respectfully to Phil for making it happen. I know the footer down at the bottom says this site was designed by me and “implemented” by Phil, but seriously, he had all the ideas and I just drew some stuff in Photoshop to fit his suggestions. If you need your website redesigned or are having problems with your WordPress/ComicPress, I heartily recommend hiring Phil.
And we will be continuing to tweak and fine-tune the site over the next few weeks, getting it all into shape. If you see any glitches or broken links as you peruse things, please let us know!
Cross-posted from p. 155:
Oooh… Pretty!! I even have my Gravatar now… Neato! Great job Tara!!
Also: is that really the second edition of The Jump on sale?? Oooh.
Okay, I actually do have one nit to pick: The buttons that border the comic display correctly in IE, but not in Firefox or Chrome. (For example, the “Latest” icon gets shunted to the next line, slightly below and to the right of the “Next” icon.)
Upgrade your IE =) .. fixing it.
In the process of fixing it, seems to be a little funkey right now with IE’s (shakes fist at IE)
Looks good in Chrome now… thanks! Don’t really care for IE, myself.
I get this at the top of the comics page when viewing in IE6. Yes. I know. Deeply embedded in my employers systems, what can you do?
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Yeah sorry about that, I am in the process of trying to fix the navigation.
Okay, I was wondering about the unannounced hiatus…the Girlamatic site hasn’t updated in a month.
Dave, my apologies for leaving you hanging. The Girlamatic site was down for nearly a week, accompanied by an apparent lack of interest on the part of those who had the power to fix it. This was after months of smaller, but no less frustrating, troubles. And after that I just didn’t have the heart to put the energy into it anymore. I do really need to put a note up there to let everyone know they can continue to read Galaxion here, so thank you for mentioning it.
However, things have continued on as normal on this site! I hope you will find the new digs appealing and will join us here.