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No/Late Comic This Week

by kaitou on September 14, 2014 at 22:11
Posted In: Uncategorized

Due to being dragged into some RL work tonight and having a previous engagement tomorrow night (and not wanting to do another “writer’s block” comic), no comic tonight or tomorrow. Maybe Tuesday.

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I See No Comic Here

by kaitou on June 23, 2014 at 22:18
Posted In: blog

No comic this week because I almost got bitten by a snake, but it decided to wander over here instead. Still, I was too traumatized (not to mention feeling rejected) to do a comic.

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Check Your RSS Feed

by kaitou on January 4, 2014 at 15:18
Posted In: blog

Although I use RSS to let me know when other webcomics have posted, I usually have my reader go directly to the site rather than pull the article down itself. As a result, I’ve found many sites are not all-client friendly (i.e., they don’t work well with all clients, mine in particular) or they are outright broken. A lot come up with invalid date (usually due to date format problems).

There’s an easy way to check your RSS feed, though; run it through an RSS feed checker. The one I recommend is w3.org RSS validator. Just enter the URL of your RSS feed and see what it comes up with. It could be a pass, a pass with recommendations or it will list bad entries.

Typical problems I’ve seen are bad or problematic date entries. Examples:

  • Has a lastBuildDate in the top header, but no pubDate in the entries. This causes all entries to show up on the same date and same time. Unfortunately, this still qualifies as “valid.”
  • Has lastBuildDate and pubDate entries, but in the wrong format; e.g., 2014-01-04T00:13:48+00:00. The dates should be in RFC-822 (mail header spec) format like Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:44:51. Two sites that have this problem are from big, “professional” groups (go figure). I’ve also seen sites where the date is just the date and no time; e.g., Sat, Sept 14 2013.
  • Has pubDate, but in not-quite-RFC-822 format, e.g., Sat, 04 Jan 14 13:44:51 where the year is only two digits.
  • The RSS link is a web (html) page and not an rss xml page (this got the site deleted from my RSS feed).
  • The site is using feedburner. While “valid”, it breaks a lot of readers. (Mine keeps getting duplicate entries for posts.)
  • The link entry goes someplace strange. It is supposed to go to the top page for the entity being listed. I’ve seen one go to the archives page, which uses extra bandwidth and machine load. Another one goes to Yahoo Pipes, which I find even worse. I’ve also seen the link going to the rss page or .

Fortunately, the RSS code in WordPress generates valid RSS (usually); so, you should be safe if you’re using it with ComicPress, comic-easel or any other plug-in.

It takes less than a minute to check and it may avoid you using some readers; so, give it a try.

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Patreon link page added

by kaitou on January 4, 2014 at 12:48
Posted In: blog

I’ve added a Patreon Link page for the webcomics I know that are now using Patreon for funding. You’ll find it under the Resources pull-down on the link bar at the top of the page.

Why am I making this list? Because, frankly, Patreon’s search function sucks.

└ Tags: patreon, webcomics
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Zorphbert Fan Art

by kaitou on December 8, 2013 at 21:59
Posted In: blog

It seems I dropped some fan art off at the Zorphbert comic site. Check it out. And while you’re there, check out the rest of Zorphbert.

This does beg the question: why do I do better artwork for other people than I do for my own site? The answer is obvious: beats me.

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