Tekk's Art (My Name Is Not Arthur.)

[Tekkactus]

So I've finally gotten tired of Webcomics Nation's support service (long story short several features on the site have stopped working and the tech staff has been AWOL for months), so I've moved Sandgate to a new host. The comic can now be found here.

The downside to this is that, aside from about seven premade templates, Comic Fury (the new service) is much less forgiving to people with poor html skills such as myself. Until I know a bit more about what I'm doing, the cast and fanart pages are gone, and the site layout is painfully generic. I'd like to fix that, but I don't know the first thing about coding short of a few super basic tricks.

[Tekkactus]

Can you guys do me a solid? If it's not too much trouble, can you either screencap how you see my site, or at least describe it to me? It looks fine, great even, on my monitor, but apparently on some smaller screens the comic info and twitter boxes wrap around to the bottom and it looks like crap. If the majority see it properly I'll leave it, but I don't want most of my readership viewing the comic on a borked layout.

If it does look crummy to you, any suggestions on how to improve it?

[Kelso]

Well, it's probably not much help since I'm on a 22" monitor, but here it is in widescreen. Of course it leaves a lot of empty space on the right side of my screen, but that's pretty common for me with webcomics. They either align to the left, or in the center leaving the sides empty.

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I shrank the Firefox window to try and get an idea of what you meant about the twitter box, and I wouldn't say it looks bad at the bottom of the screen, other than it kicks the navigation buttons down. There should be a way to set it so there's a horizontal scroll bar instead of rearranging the page on smaller screens.

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I could have sworn I used to have a site bookmarked that tested websites for this specific thing, but I can't find it in my old bookmarks anywhere. Basically you type in a site address and it takes screen shots of it to show how it looks on a variety of systems, monitors and browsers. I'll try to remember it.

[Gin]

1280x800 for me.

With a maximized window it looks fine...



...but when I resize the window your twitter and stuff get pushed underneath the comic.

[Tekkactus]

Thanks for your help guys; that's pretty much what I was getting, but I wanted to confirm it was normal. I'm 1280x720, so things don't look typical on my monitor.

This led me to spend the afternoon completely revamping the site layout, which is something I was going to do anyway but this got me off my butt. Everything's looking great except for one detail:

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This layout allows for a horizontal scrollbar, but when you scroll to the right, the background is white where it should be black. I've poured over the code multiple times, but this is my first time using CSS so I'm sure I'm missing something. It's gotta just be a matter of changing a rogue #FFFFFF to #000000, right?

EDIT: Figured it out, no worries!

[Kelso]

Ha! I like your under construction icon.



Now you just need a favicon.

Edit: No more twitterbox?

[Tekkactus]

The twitterbox is only viewable on the Blogs page now. It just couldn't feasibly fit on the front page with the sidebar there.

[Tekkactus]

SUGOI!!

[Gin]

I went to an anime convention wearing a t-shirt with the Lucky Star uniform on it once. People loved it.

[Tekkactus]

I went to an anime convention wearing a t-shirt with the Lucky Star uniform on it once. People loved it.

I wanted that shirt so damn bad but at the same time I wasn't about to buy the Lucky Star box set.

Some Stuff:


It'd be a financial disaster and I know it, but I kind of want to finish these and put them out in a teeny weeny run of posters... no one reads my comic though, so I highly doubt I could move any merch.

[Gin]

On a side note I love that Willit's power is that he's COVERED IN BEEEEEEEEEE.

[Tekkactus]

Who's this guy?

[Kelso]

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Fingers maybe?

[Desov2]

Yay. Plot Development.

[Tekkactus]

Yeah, Fingers ghostly design was 20% stylistic choice and 80% the limitations of my artistic talent at age 15. I would honestly expect it to be phased out, or at least used less, in the future.

EDIT: I should mention that the storyline mentioned in Kelso's link eventually found itself wound into Chapter 5 via flashbacks.