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New Website, Testing Testing... (Patreon)

Published:
2017-07-18 07:08:38
Edited:
2017-07-18 07:11:28
Imported:
2026-06

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A lot has happened this month! The vol.2 books came in (yay!), I entered my 2nd trimester (more energy, less pukey!), and I have finally gotten the hang of web design on my new CMS for the website, Grawlix. Up until now I have edited everything by hand which made uploading pages a nightmare, but with Grawlix I am hoping to make updating easier. I'm a little OCD when it comes to organizing folders and such, so I'm a little annoyed that I can't organize files and folders the way I would like to, but it is really nice that I can make changes anytime I view the website just by accessing my admin panel and making quick corrections.

The site is supposed to be more mobile friendly than before and I will now be displaying pages one at a time on the website (double page format will continue on Patreon and dA). This is just to make it easier for mobile devices AND so I can update the website twice a week now, Tuesdays and Fridays. Hopefully that will draw more traffic and help with ad income, etc. 

Anyway, if you have some spare time, I'd love to get your thoughts on the new design:

http://fallen-comic.com/grawlix/

Things to keep in mind:

- The link above is temporary, at least until I move all the files out of the grawlix folder. I'll do that once everything has been finalized. 

- Only the first four links work. Home, News, Archive, and Characters, and they are obviously incomplete. In the Archive, you can only access the first chapter, and even then it's just the first 12 pages. I only list 4 characters on the characters page, etc.

- I have more ads than before, yes, but are they in the way? I have made it so that they won't even show up on most mobile devices. 

- I will be leaving comments under new updates! But don't bother leaving a comment yourself on the pages, since these are not permanent links for things.

- The header image up top is just a placeholder image, but the actual image will probably be the same image with "order now" instead of "pre-order" and will change from time to time. It's now a static image and not the shifting carousel it used to be.

Right now the biggest struggle I'm facing is the art gallery, which will probably have to be run on its own separate CMS and will take me A WHILE to update... Possibly I will launch that part of the website at a later date. 

Any thoughts would be great! This is what I've spent MOST of my free time on when I am not sending out books to backers on Kickstarter. I wanted to show you guys that I've totally been working, just not on art stuff (haven't done my thumbnails for the next chapter yet). I'm a little scatterbrained  because I've got so much on my plate at the moment, but rest assured I am not just sitting around picking my nose all day long.

Comments

cnhsgqtwec

Works fine for me. Only thing I'll remark is that I personally find "first" and "last" buttons under each page rather irritating. I mean, how often are they useful? Like never. I have ever only used them by mistake. e_e On a non-related and non-interesting note, I've solved the problem of the new characters nonfficial song. Hurrah! \o/

NiWo21k

Looks good so far, just two ideas: 1) maybe put arrow buttons instead word ones under the page for going forth and back - i know that many websites do this but i think this works best most the time. 2) i checked the it on a phone, a tablet and a computer and one thing i have small problems with are the menu points at the top - on a normal screen it works but if you minimize the screen it looks very overloaded - maybe hide a part under a pull down menu when the screen only reaches a specific size.

Velocifang

It's good to know you are feeling and doing better than you had been. As for the new site, so far I'm liking it. I did notice something so here is a small piece of feedback on it for you. I looked at it using my phone and the one thing I noticed sticking out. (Kind've literally) was that on the pages that I see the advert for Anime Asylum, the box for it is pretty large and is stretching out past the side of the overall page formatting. It even does it on the Archive Pages above the buttons that move to the next or previous pages. It only seems to do this on the mobile version of the site. I hope this is helpfull for you. I'm looking forward to seeing the rest when you are able to get it up and running. :)