A client recently pointed out that Sweet & Sour Grapes looks pretty good on the iPad, and got me thinking about making future sites attractive on that platform as well as typical browsers. With it’s high resolution and rotating screen, many webcomic sites already look decent on the iPad without any changes. For those of [...]
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Tips & Tools for the iPad Friendly Website
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Gravatars or Battling the Mystery Men
<–Wordpress mystery men So you’ve commented on someone’s website and go back to read a few more comments. Suddenly you realize you’re just a faceless mystery man avatar in a crowd of recognizable faces, and on the Internet, your avatar is how people recognize you as you. How can we overcome that disconcerting anonymity? Set [...]
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A Blogging Challenge Plea
As you know I’ve been working on the Problogger 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge. Today’s challenge is a reader “Call to Action”, but Day 17′s challenge was to watch a first time user read my blog. Since I haven’t done Day 17 yet, I’m going to combine the two. This is a [...]
Guest Posting for ComixTalk
Xavier, the blogger for ComixTalk, is off on vacation for a few weeks and had enlisted several bloggers to keep his site rolling while he’s gone. This week Dan & I are sharing guest blogger duties. Swing by ComixTalk to see what we have to say: 5 Good Comics from Dan’s Reading List Review of [...]
Fanciful Fonts from Google Font
Breaking out of website standard fonts has always been a challenge. On one hand, you are reliant on your visitor to have a font on their computer when they visit your site; which is hardly guaranteed. On the other, you must create a graphic out of your fancy text, thereby increasing the parts your website [...]
