Rita was recently critiqued on a comics board I’m on. In the various comments, a few themes emerged. One of them was “I want an archive page full of thumbnails!”. I didn’t quite do that, but I think I did something that better addresses the underlying problem of wanting to flip back and forth between pages a whole ton: I almost completely ditched the single-page model, in favor of full chapter views.<\/p>\n
I’ve also switched out some of the underlying code – I moved from the ComicPress plugin to its successor, Comic Easel<\/a>. I built a new theme, found a plugin<\/a> to fill a hole in which Comic Easel was willing to generate, made a custom icon font<\/a> for the arrows and did some CSS and PHP hackery to make it work just right.<\/p>\n Let me know what you think of the new look, especially if it seems broken on your browser – all I’ve tested on is the latest Mac versions of Safari, Firefox, and Chrome. I want to have a good reading experience for new visitors who come in via the Kickstarter!<\/p>\n (Stuff I know is not done: This change is, of course, at the expense of the next page. It’s about half done, and not especially complex. I’m hoping to get it up Tuesday, or maybe Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rita was recently critiqued on a comics board I’m on. In the various comments, a few themes emerged. One of them was “I want an archive page full of thumbnails!”. I didn’t quite do that, but I think I did something that better addresses the underlying problem of wanting to flip back and forth between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egypt.urnash.com\/rita\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}the about page is still the same mess it was beforehand<\/del>, blog archive needs space between posts, links to other comics are gone. I need to fix a thing under the hood<\/a><\/del> though it’s not too high priority as I’ve always cached aggressively<\/a>. I also suspect some tricks<\/a> aren’t gonna work on every web designer’s favorite browser<\/a>. Also I need to donate some bucks to the dude behind Comic Easel.)<\/small><\/p>\n