Archive for October 3rd, 2007
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Oct03
So you probably can see where this week of strips is headed, but I’ve decided I’m going to run the joke into the ground anyway. In a way it seems almost fair. Viggo Mortensen’s nude scene in Eastern Promises seems to be the most memorable thing about Eastern Promises. Why not play it to the hilt?
You can expect more wang-talk on Friday. It’s all part of my orchestrated campaign to take "wang" away from Penny Arcade.
I guess it’s a little unfair to say that the ONLY thing people are taking from Eastern Promises is the naked knife fight. Gordon and Joe both saw the movie and we discussed it at length on Monday’s Triple Feature talkcast. If you missed it, you should download it. No technical problems this time! Yay! We’re quasi-professional!
I don’t have much else for you today except I think I made the decision to go forward with redesigning the site in WordPress with the ComicPress template plugin. I’m a little intimidated because I don’t want the site to look like every other site that uses WordPress. I understand that their code is very flexible, but then you get into the "Will I break it?" paranoia. I’ve got someone helping me on the back end, but does anyone have experience designing WordPress templates on the front end? If so, drop me a line.
I probably won’t have the site redesigned until the first of 2008 anyway. But I guess I just wanted to share with you that I’ve picked a direction. Hopefully making the switch will provide a spam-free environment for a comments section, the links to social networking that I want and a more robust search engine for you guys to use.
The one thing I hesitate about? Losing the Top 50 polling information. Man, I love that.
Oh, well. I’m sure there’s a mod similar to that somewhere, right?
Have a great Wednesday!
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Hey, guys!
I just wanted to send a quick note to everyone to let them know that we’ve recently upgraded the RSS feed for the site. Whereas before there would be one post with the link and title of the most recent comic and another post with the most recent blog, we’ve now compiled everything into a single post! As an added value, you can now also SEE the comic in the feed. It’s not a lonely link anymore!
There was some concern about posting the comic and blog independent of the site. If you’re reading it in the feed, you’re not coming to the site and that kind of sucks because I’m missing out on the traffic. But then I figured “Who cares?” Because if the point is to get the comic in front of as many people as possible, it’s limiting to say “This is the only way you get to see it.” That’s like saying “I’ve got a great widget, but I’m only going to advertise it on radio!” Make the tools available to people to read your stuff the way they want to read it and let the chips fall where they may!
MAJOR credit goes out to my man Anthony DiSanti. He wrote the entire script and put up with several back and forth messages as we tweaked things. He did this all while taking Finance and Information Systems classes at NYU and working a part time job. He’s a friggin’ dynamo and I totally appreciate his hard work to help me bring this to you.
Anthony has a web site you can vist it at http://anthonydisanti.blogspot.com. Why don’t you swing by and say “Hi” and thank him for all his hard work! Thank you, Anthony!
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