Facelift!
After troubleshooting for too long only to realize that I forgot to close a freakin' <div>, I can finally unveil the fruit of my labor over the past few days. Ever since I started this site, I've made constant changes to the Elegant Box theme that I chose for the basis of the look of it. What looked something like this wound up looking like the image you see above and I kept going back and forth between decisions I had made about many aspects of the site, never quite satisfied with whatever I settled on. So what to do? Well, after seeing site redesigns up and down (including Joystiq's and B4B partner-in-crime Mark's) I took it upon myself to do the same.
I chose Andrei Luca's LightWord theme as my starting point (because I'm not crazy enough to start from scratch) and took it from there. Not much has changed in terms of where things are located but I think it's just ultimately more pleasing to the eye. There are still a few tiny issues that need ironing out but those will have to be tackled another day.
How long before I get sick of this and decide to start anew is still up in the air.
PS: Thoughts and suggestions are always appreciated.
The Apple iPad.
Meet the Kindle killer.
The iPad, the oft rumored Apple tablet/e-book reader, was finally revealed yesterday. It's pretty neat and all but this is relevant to me and to what I do because of what it might do to digital comics distribution. There hasn't been a truly viable device with which comic publishers can deliver content digitally and this might be it. I won't be getting one but I'm excited for the implications it might bring to the medium. Whatever gets comics in more people's hands is a good thing.
A picture of Apple's own book store for the iPad after the break.
Read more...Site Stats for 2009.
WordPress.com Stats is a nifty little WordPress plugin that keeps track of how many hits your site gets. I'm always fascinated by this stuff and I want to throw some of last year's stats here.
These were my top 10 posts last year:
| 1) Drunk Obese Pikachu. | (397 hits) |
| 2) Mario vs. Bowser: Redux | (350 hits) |
| 3) Death / The Grim Reaper | (269 hits) |
| 4) A brief history of the Flash and I. | (177 hits) |
| 5) Krypto vs. Dex-Star | (143 hits) |
| 6) Computer woes and Blackest Night. | (92 hits) |
| 7) I’d kill for a Team Fortress 2 animated movie. | (72 hits) |
| 8) On Wally West’s “new” costume. | (65 hits) |
| 9) Sketchbook Update – 5/27/09 | (61 hits) |
| 10) A “The Umbrella Academy: Dallas” Review. | (61 hits) |
I had a total of 5,566 views from May 12th of 2009 (which is when I first started this site) up until December 31st of 2009 with an average of 24 views per day. On October 15th, I had my busiest day with a total of 147 hits. The top three search engine terms people use to find my site are "mario vs bowser," "pikachu" and "drunk pikachu."
My goal for this year?
Break the 24 posts per day average and get it somewhere around 30.
More computer woes + Ninjas
I ordered a new computer from Dell.
My current one keeps giving me problems and I just don't have the patience for it anymore. I ordered a new computer with a good processor and I'm just going to gut my current one and put the RAM, video card, hard drive and whatever else I can in the new one. It'll have Vista but I'll get a free upgrade to Windows 7 when that arrives so I'm good to go.
In any case, I did the following piece of animation back in college:
I was looking at it earlier for some reason and I've decided that, once I get that new computer, I'm going to finally finish it.
Pencil test and more after the break.
Read more...Computer woes and Blackest Night.
It's been a while but my computer got really screwed up again.
I won't go into details but the good news is that I did manage to save pretty much all of my data. I gained a couple of hassles (I can't sync my iPhone applications with iTunes anymore or I'll lose all my application data) but since I was planning on reinstalling XP from scratch anyway, I went ahead and installed the Windows 7 release candidate instead. I'm liking it so far but I don't feel like it's a huge departure from what MS has done before. I do have to say that installation was a breeze, I did not have to install a single driver (except for my Wacom tablet driver, I think). Everything is done automatically, so props to Microsoft for that. Aside from that, I'm enjoying some of the smaller stuff like an integrated search and being able to shuffle wallpapers automatically after certain intervals. I hope someone comes out with a crack later so I don't have to pay for this when the release candidate period ends.
Anyway, I picked up Green Lantern #43 which is a Prelude to Blackest Night, thoughts on that after the break.
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