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Books & Websites on Usability

By Amanda | Published: 07/08/2010

Welcome to final installment of the KISS Usability and Webcomics 101 series. Obviously I am not the final word in website usability, and in fact have a lot to learn myself. Here are the resources I used in the creation of this series as well as links to other valuable tools for evaluating your own [...]

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Props: Pages & Extras for Webcomics

By Amanda | Published: 07/05/2010

Welcome to the penultimate article in the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. Today, pages and extras for your webcomic site. Now that we’ve run down the basic parts of a webcomic site and some of the ways you can make it more user-friendly, we’ll wrap up this KISS 101 series with a few nice [...]

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Act 1, Scene K?: Comic Archive

By Amanda | Published: 06/28/2010

Welcome to article five of the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. Today, your comic archive. Another important part of any webcomic is the comic archive. At its heart, the comic archive is about granular access to past content. Unlike the comic navigation, which takes you through a webcomic one strip/page at a time, the [...]

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Scene Change: Comic Navigation

By Amanda | Published: 05/23/2010

Getting back on track a bit here. Welcome to article four of the KISS: Usability & Webcomics 101 series. One of the great perks of an online comic is easy access to an archive of strips or pages that have come before. Readers can see your progression, refresh their memories about old story threads, and [...]

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The Playbill: Site Navigation

By Amanda | Published: 05/13/2010

Most webcomic creators don’t post their comics in a vacuum. They want to share a bit about themselves, sell products in a store, or promote projects by friends and colleagues. The best way to give structure to this myriad of subjects is to put them into pages and create a site navigation. Site navigation is [...]

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