All my zines are in! And so are most of my 24 hour comics, now. To be super clear, I’ve only been working on the 24 hour comics today!! A lot of them are silent comics, so transcribing them hasn’t been too bad.
I’ll probably do the transcript for the 24 hour version of paige and the black dog tomorrow, and depending on how I feel I’ll probably start setting up my sketchbooks too.
I figured out how to group “series” of comics/zines together nicely too, so that’s what I’ll be doing from now on when I’ve got stuff that comes in groups! :)
The only challenge is how to handle crossover between series (eg. do I put the minicomic based on xyz 24 hour comic in the 24 hour comics series, so it can all be read together easily/in one go, or do I put it in the sketchbook it was originally part of? or both?)
Dreading looking into doing redirects… 11ty is currently writing 429 files? Most of those are comic zine pages. The data entry required to set up redirects properly will probably not be very fun.
I do feel bad about changing up my URLs again, because cool URIs don’t change… But basically, they’ve all gotten cleaner. No more file extensions, and the comics all have their own top-level directories.
eg. /the-bookshelf/comic-name/#.html
➡️ /comic-name/#/
I’ll do my best to maintain this new structure!! Other than breaking people’s bookmarks, I think these new URLs are ultimately more user friendly/human readable.
Other than that, I think I still just feel really happy about being able to populate the site so easily!
I’m glad I went for a more simple/flat aesthetic for the site this time too, since I feel like it lets all my comics zines and art take the focus.
For a little while I kinda wanted to get more creative with the design and make a more tactile/aesthetic/themed website, but I think a flat/boring design actually works best for my use case.
I guess the vibe I’m going for overall could be summarised as “simple and clean”!
Cannot emphasise enough how different building a 10-page website feels to building a hundreds-of-pages website. Thank you 11ty for saving my website from a slow and certain death.
Also, I get so long winded with these updates now that they’re all written in markdown in seperate files instead of being handwritten HTML, my goodness!!
I’ll have to figure out if I can set up some kinda read more functionality maybe… These changelogs are functionally just for me, so that I have a record of what work I’ve done and roughly when.
But I’d like for them to be easier for me to scroll through/browse! Which should also benefit anyone else who might find them interesting (though they’re mostly just rambles)
If you’re actually reading these, then. Welcome to my dark and twisted mind I guess?