Thanks for Your Help
Just wanted to formally thank all of you who commented and emailed me on the look of the website. You guys pretty much confirmed what I thought as well: the website should reflect the simplistic style of the strip.
I’ve wanted to be a cartoonist all my life but I always assumed I’d get into newspapers. It’s only in the past couple of years that I’ve redirected my efforts to the web so I’m a bit more behind all this CSS, HTML nonsense that I’m sure most of you out there have a firm grasp of. I like to think I know just enough to be dangerous – and I do mean dangerous. I once attempted to change the color to the calendar and accidentally locked myself, and everyone else, out of my website.
I’m glad most of you like the simple look. I do too. And more little changes will be coming (custom menu bar, custom navigation buttons, etc) but I think the overall look won’t change for a while.
Thanks for your help, everyone!
Hey I thought the same thing about newspapers- I grew up reading the good ones, wanted to be syndicated, and now despise the fact that the papers are still plagued with old, outdated, stale garbage, and they're never going to change. The web is really the future of comics. Newspaper comic readers are dying off, literally, and hip readers are moving to the web. Newspaper syndicates will fight it tooth and nail, but it's inevitable. Let me know if you want any help with designing.
Right on, Dan. I also grew up reading newspaper comics and dreamed of being syndicated. I still read newspaper comics (force of habit?) and am dismayed by the lack of quality found on the inky pages these days. People who are skeptical about the quality of webcomics need only browse the archives of "Bug" and Dan's "Edmund Finney" to realize what they've been missing.