Bought this on Steam the other day – loving it so far! I’m currently trying to achieve a Rot Victory, but I find it really hard to do.
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I want to make the site more active from now on, so I was thinking of posting blogs from Monday to Friday with a theme or something. Here’s what I’ve thought of so far:
- Myan Mondays – The idea is to make Mondays a little more bearable with small blog posts, drawings, or 1-panel comics featuring Myan (and maybe other characters) every Monday morning.
- Tutorial Tuesdays – I write or find something useful about comics, art, writing, and web design. They could be guides, books, videos, or tools. I can also make some how-to-draws of the characters. Kinda doing this right now though.
- Webcomic Wednesdays – I’ll blog about interesting comics around the web, and if possible, do an interview with the creators. Maybe even post about comics that aren’t on the web.
- Fun and Fascinating (Funscinating?) Fridays – Posts about interesting stuff like:
- Facts about the Philippines. I don’t know if you guys will be that interested about it though.
- Videos
- Music
- Books
- Websites, and blog posts
- Stuff that I’m reading or watching (movies and series) now.
- Polls, maybe.
- All of the above could just be relegated to random journal posts, which can take place any day of the week though…
Others ideas:
- Animal of the week – Every week, you guys pick an animal and I’ll make drawings of it, and maybe it’s human-hybrid forms (like this, or this) too. Could be fun for everyone, and give’s me a good excuse to practice drawing animals. But what’s a good day for this, Fridays maybe? That way, you can decide which animal I should do during Mon-Thur…
- I’m honestly at a loss about what to do on Thursday, but I have some ideas:
- Throwback Thursdays – I’ve seen this mentioned a lot in social media and the radio, but what do I throwback/blog about? Older Cat Nine pages?
- Trope Thursdays – Blog about tropes from TvTropes, which every writer should be reading anyway. Plus, I’ll also use this to find tropes that apply to Cat Nine.
- Mythology Thursdays – Topics about mythologies from the Philippines and around the world.
- Caturday – Blog posts, images, or videos about cats… but I kinda don’t want to write anything during the weekend.
What do you guys think? Got any suggestions about what I should blog about?
Ever wonder how fast your website loads? Find out for free through Pingdom’s Website speed test! This handy tool not only shows you which files or objects affect your website’s speed, it also gives recommendations that can improve your site’s load time.
Why should you care about load time?
- Not everyone has fast Internet.
- People are generally impatient and hate slow websites.
- Fast sites are better for people on mobile.
You might need some technical know-how to carry out some of the recommendations suggested by the tool, but for most (especially webcomics), the images in your website have the largest effect on speed. That’s why I advise optimizing/compressing all of your images even at the expense of some quality, but trust me, most people won’t notice the difference at all – I suggest TinyPNG and TinyJPG which I use myself, or this all-in-one online tool compressor.io. compressor.io even has a lossless option, which will try to keep your image files from losing the least amount of quality possible.
Other things that can slow a site are advertisements, and extra stuff like chatboxes and Facebook/Twitter widgets. Consider removing these if they are affecting the speed too much, or if you don’t need them anymore.
Thanks to this, I’ve managed to make Cat Nine faster for everyone; now it loads in 2-6 seconds on average! How about you, how fast does your website load? Try posting your results in the comments below!
Try and beat this, suckas
I’m curious, what’s your timezone and what time do you guys usually read webcomics? I might be able to adjust my update schedule, and the info here might be useful for me and other webcomic creators.
Thanks to everyone who has voted so far! It has been really helpful!
I’ll start converting or “Tapastifying” Cat Nine pages from now on, probably 0-3 times a week. As an example, here’s what page 1 would look like when converted! Anyway, here’s Cat Nine’s page on Tapastic if you want to subscribe or something.
Source: Cat Nine :: 1 – First Day for Everything | Tapastic Comics
I can totally see Myan as Dot, Keith as Yakko, and Cruz as Wakko in this vid. What do you guys think?
MCWildcat from the chat honks for Cat Nine’s honor. HOOOOONK.
Public Enemy No. 1
If you have a WordPress website and using cPanel, be careful of HotLink Protection. It caused the mess earlier this morning, preventing everyone from loading or displaying any images, even on the website itself.
No images is disastrous in a web comic and since I lack the technical skills beyond HTML and CSS, I panicked a little to be honest… The tech support for my webhost was also a little unhelpful. At least I had my backups just in case I couldn’t fix it.
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It seems there’s still an unfixed bug with cPanel’s HotLink Protection. Even if you disable it in the HotLink Protection page, it doesn’t seem to work. Apparently, HotLink Protection adds something to all the .htaccess files in your website directory.
How to fix this
1. Find and download all your .htaccess files in the public_html folder. If you have another website/subdomain, include them too.
2. Open them and look for something like this. In my case, I found it at the bottom.
RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ ^.* [R,NC]
3. Remove them, and then save your .htaccess files.
4. Upload your .htaccess files to wherever you found them.
5. Don’t use HotLink Protection anymore, and don’t open it up in cPanel.
Hope this helped someone else if they encounter this problem!
Don’t know what’s going on, but it seems most if not all the images in the site are broken… including the comics. Trying to fix it as soon as I can!
- 3:36 AM: Okay, managed to fix it, I think. Can anyone check?
- 1:51 PM: Finished checking all of the comics. Running smoothly now, whew.
- 2:17 PM: Almost forgot about old/Classic Cat Nine. Fixed it over there too.
The Star of Cottonland
Image from: animefangirl.com
A manga series adapted into an anime movie about a Persian kitten named Chibi-neko – except she sees herself as a human, while everyone else sees her real form. I think I found this from TvTropes a long time ago, but I only remembered just now, anyway… She’s technically not a real catgirl, but this is apparently the first catgirl movie and popularized catgirls/kemonomimis. Since I have a catgirl comic of my own, I think I better watch this. Who knows, there could be some interesting ideas here. Also, notice her brown hair and green eyes. You could say she’s Myan’s ancestor!