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joesoar:
I worry about that too, but I hated it in high school when my teachers would just congratulate me and not always push me. now I feel way behind what I'll be going into by the time I make it to art school (I'm at community college to save money).
If I keep this up though, I hope I'll come out number one at school. I am determined to get better in the next 3 years and beyond.
PrickOfDestiny:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 30 Jun 2009, 13:01 ---I am going to be super harsh, but it's for your own good, I think! This is my subjective opinion and you are allowed to hate me for it. Maybe it's a great design and I just suck.
General site design... I think maybe you'd be better off with
-a smaller, less intrusive logo
-ditching the flashy IRC link
-ditching the links on the right-hand side to digg, facebook etc
-losing the twitter feed
-losing the archives dropdown over the comic
-removing the quote by Athena
Basically, make sure what gets the attention is the comic, not the extras. The comic is what you're trying to get people interested in, slogging through added extras is just an annoyance - twitter, for example: You're an artist just starting out, so you don't have a lot of regular readers. Regular readers are the only ones who care about the author whatsoever. Right now it looks like you're putting yourself before the comic, that you're doing this for attention, which is not a good thing. Finally, get a different background if you're going to keep the white comic borders, they don't work together at all - preferrably, one that doesn't look like it's from a Geocities page circa 1998.
--- End quote ---
I'm definitely not taking that as jackassery, and appreciate the feedback. I'll take the advice and explain the reason for some of the points criticised :)
- Smaller logo: Agreed on that one. Next website-tweaking session (at the moment, the priority is on releasing the next page this week), I'll shrink it.
- Flashy IRC link: I forgot to stop the flashing. It's a habit for me to make links to new features blink or otherwise attract attention, and the IRC has been there for long enough for my few regulars to have noticed it. A few new readers entered the room too, it was nice to get to chat with them live, sort of.
- Bookmarking site links: Maybe I should make them smaller, just thought giving my readers the possibility to link to the site on Digg and such would increase my potential exposure and possibly my reader base. I should definitely do something about those though, they are too big.
- Twitter feed: The feed is actually much more about the comic than about myself. Even when mentioning I now understand Flash, because the link between this and a website is kind of obvious. Maybe I should put it on the right-hand column site under the "quick cast reminder".
- Navbar over the comic: True, this is kind of redundant considering there's one under the comic.
- Quote: The quote actually changes every time you reload the page. :laugh:
So! What would you think about this layout instead?
joesoar:
hey guys, I just re-did my site design. Cleaned it up and changed the colors a bit.
http://www.grumpycomics.com
any comments?
Hustler:
I remember posting in one of these threads ages ago, I guess a new one was made.
Anyhow, my comic, Nuclear Powered Toaster, is back after about two and a half years on the bench. It happens when you're dependent on others for art dispensing. You can find it here, or by clicking the link in my sig. Decided to reboot; only got 44 strips in last time, and not all of them still did it for me, so we went at it from another angle. So if you want to go check it out and let me know what you think, I'd be most obliged. No such thing as too many critiques.
devinhoo:
I'm just getting started, so I only have 18 strips up so far.
The full url is http://web.me.com/devinhoo/slashfacepalm/
and the short url (yay redirect sites) is slashfacepalm.co.nr
Thanks. :)
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