Comments on: Webcomic Website Must-Have’s: Archive Page

By: Ray Friesen

Ray Friesen — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:36:49 +0000

okay, now I think I figured it out. If I retyped the ” they changed from being slightly curly to straight up and down, which fixed everything somehow.

By: KEZ

KEZ — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:16:37 +0000

@Ray, can you give me the link to a specific page so I can check out your code? Also, what browser are you using?

By: Ray Friesen

Ray Friesen — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:12:07 +0000

I am following your directions trying to make my webcomic site more SEO friendly (I can’t say I truly understand what’s going on, just plugging my specific images and text into your template) and it seems to be working okay, except for when I look at it on the web, if I mouse over the image, only the first word of the alt text/description whatev seems to appear. Any idea what’s causing this and how I make it stop and be more correctlyier?

By: Winged Wolf Studio − Displaying the Webcomic OFF the Home Page…CORRECTLY.

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:04:57 +0000

[...] WRONG 3: Having more than 1 click to the archive page(s) of your comic(s). Let us return to the first scenario of WRONG 2: mulitple clicks to the comic. Okay, well, what if a new visitor wants to go to the archive page first? A lot of visitors like to see what they’re getting into first (in other words, how long they will be sitting to read your work) before going to the first page or most recent page. If they have multiple clicks to get to the comic, how will they react with even MORE clicks to get to the archive? Or, what if, an even worse worse-case scenario, you don’t even HAVE an archive page? [...]

By: KEZ

KEZ — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:32:09 +0000

I would recommend a page split up by arc (if arcs exist), with a one sentence description, ex:

Dog discovers Cat can be tricked.
Comics: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc

Gag-a-day strips are much more difficult. I would recommend the thumbnail feature on Comicpress for a single-panel-ish comics, or descriptive titles separated about monthly. For example, for xkcd, I would recommend a “themes” archive, split up by “guy with the hat,” “girl with the hat,” “secretary of the internet,” etc.

Hehe, I’ve got enough to say that I could write a whole article on the topic, I suppose.

By: lifesawitch

lifesawitch — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:23:48 +0000

How about addressing archives for gag strips or short story-arc comics?

By: Winged Wolf Studio − Webcomic Website Must-Have’s: The Cast Page

Winged Wolf Studio − Webcomic Website Must-Have’s: The Cast Page — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:20:23 +0000

[...] like the archive page, many people know they NEED a cast page, but have no idea how to present all that information. This [...]

By: JGray

JGray — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:26:59 +0000

Excellent tips. I was going to add chapter summaries to the info page, where I keep cast notes, but now I think I’ll add it to both that and my archive page, which is already split up by chapter and, within that, by individual title (and each title is numbered to make it easy to see how many pages there are).

By: Bengo

Bengo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:08:17 +0000

As I’ve been upgrading my navigation and ALTs, I noticed we have more story arcs than I realized. I can see people wanting to have this information in an organized manner — especially me.