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Advertise!

by kaitou on July 18, 2009 at 00:00
Just as well - I don't want to think about what a flashing blob looks like.

I’ll stick with the static images for ads.  I’ve seen animated gifs that do exactly what one of the above does.  As for flash, I installed flashblocker a long time ago.

I had sent Macromedia a suggestion years ago that they offer the user an option of seeing the flash animation or a static image that would launch the animation; this way, if the user selected the non-animated default, they would at least see some image indicating what the flash animation was about.  Now, if the user has a flash blocker installed, they just get the “f” and might have no idea what lurks behind it.  Since they ignored it, their users now effectively get a blank area and the advertiser gets no visibility.

Rules I have for advertising:

  1. Don’t make it obnoxious.
  2. If you use an animated image, make sure the first and last frames are meaningful by themselves; this handles the no  and run-once animation cases.
  3. Don’t use Flash.  Actually, don’t even use it on the main page on your website or any other page unless it really serves a useful function.  See rule 1.
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Fonts

by kaitou on July 15, 2009 at 00:00
And we can do the text in Latin.

Luckily, as stated, I don’t have comic sans on my machine. If you haven’t seen it, go check it out on wikipedia.

I’ve seen too many (“one” is too many) comics where the lettering is almost unreadable or, at least, painful to look at.  Some of the special fonts are fine for titles or logos, but not for long stretches of text.

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Sprites, and, uh, less?

by kaitou on July 4, 2009 at 00:00
...and she's in heat.

I think I’ve hit a new low. I’m sure Adam Smithee is cringing if he sees this. (BTW, congrats on the new slave minion intern.  I’m jealous.  I want one.  Don’t know what I’d do with it, but I want one.  Guess I have “intern envy.”)  And I think I lost my “G” rating.

Before you get any ideas, I’m not one of those fanatic anti-furry types. One of my favorite characters is Florence from Freefall.  Furries, like sprites and stick figures, are OK in moderation.  Reading this comic, on the other hand, is probably only OK in abstinence.

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Sprite

by kaitou on July 1, 2009 at 00:00
Actually, he's 4 pixels arranged in a square.

After the last, rather grueling, exercise in artwork, I decided to try the opposite extreme.

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T-shirts

by kaitou on June 20, 2009 at 00:00
and it's wool!

I hope I’ve run out of merchandise ideas so I can get onto more meaningful stuff.  (Like running out of merchandise ideas would help.)

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Plushies!

by kaitou on June 17, 2009 at 00:00
And if they don't sell, I can market them as bean bags for gerbils.

Well, so far, so good on the new schedule.

More site experiments: added the “Share this” links or, as it is more appropriately titled, “Inflict this on others.”

After doing the upgrade to the latest WordPress and ComicPress, I noticed that the title font was smaller that it used to be and mushed up for some reason.  After fixing the css, I checked it out and found that IE and Chrome were rendering the fonts larger than Firefox.  So much for standards.

I also noticed that the comic looked horrid in IE.  This turned out to be due to the image being shrunk from it regular size and IE doing a lousy job of shrinking it.  I’ve widened the site to accomidate the larger comic.  Hope this doesn’t adversely affect those of you with smaller screens.

I’m also trying custom voting buttons, currently for Top Web Comics and WebcomicZ. Also added a “mynameise” contact link.

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Fan art

by kaitou on January 24, 2009 at 00:00
I was going to do one for xkcd, but I ran out of panels.

Well, I didn’t say it was good fan art.  Do visit their sites to see the real thing (and all those legal disclaimers about copyrights and trademarks).  No real artwork was used in this drawing (well, duh).

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Experimentation

by kaitou on January 18, 2009 at 00:00
Experimentation

Sorry for the lack of updates.  I was out of town last weekend.  And, as you can probably tell from today’s installation, having problems coming up with ideas for strips.  (I do have one strip in planning, but it requires actual artwork! *shudder*)

As our blob inferred, I’ve installed the 2.7 beta version of ComicPress.  So far, other than changing the style, no major quirks.   Yet.

In the meantime, I need to go get the hot-glue gun…

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Gaming?

by kaitou on December 20, 2008 at 00:00
Gaming?

Yeah, there are already several good gaming themed comics out there (and at least one more in the planning stage that I know of).

For those of you who haven’t read the “About” page in a while, new comics are posted every(?) Saturday and/or Sunday.  Occasionally, one sneaks out during the week when the guys in the white coats aren’t paying attention.  Best to watch the RSS feed or Twitter.

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Love Story?

by kaitou on December 14, 2008 at 00:00
Love Story?

As I indicated before, coming up with a good theme to run with is hard.  In this case, I think I found a theme to run away from.

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