Thanks for the input everyone, I’ve already applied Horizontal Scrolling for mobile-users to every comic strip in the site. You might have to zoom-in for the double or larger comic strips, but they’re still readable in my experience. Horizontal Scrolling also shouldn’t conflict with already webtoon’d comic strips like with Episode 1. I might convert more strips too to webtoon in the future if I have the time!
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I just told myself I wouldn’t be fiddling around with the website again, but ehh, I suddenly found myself having another go at trying to make the website more mobile-friendly again.
So far, all I’ve done is:
- Remove the left-sidebar. The left-sidebar disappears when the width is down to a certain size. This should work on most mobile screen sizes (in both orientations), but also with desktop browsers, unfortunately. If I did this correctly, the left-sidebar shouldn’t disappear when you resize desktop browsers, but I don’t have the time yet so this will do for now! Later, I’m planning to put up another sidebar for mobile-users just below the bottom comic navigation that displays my social media, ko-fi, and Patreon.
- Disable all of the widgets on mobile for the left sidebar. The left sidebar is just hidden through CSS actually, so I still need to disable some of the widgets before they load so mobile-users don’t load them, specifically the advertisements. I disabled all of them though just in case, and they’re only disabled for mobile. This should speed things up a bit for mobile-users!
- Adjust the width to 100% for the right sidebar. Well, the remaining sidebar, which contains most of the content. If I left it alone, there’d be a huge space left by the removed left-sidebar. Reading the blog/
comments, and looking at the artwork from the homepage looks a lot nicer now! Er, okay, the comments look too small to read without zooming-in. I don’t recall if they were that small before I changed stuff, so, sorry if it did become smaller! - From now on, artwork will fit 90-95% of the screen’s height. I’ve applied it to all of the artwork displayed currently displayed in the homepage. Looks like I need to decide on a minimum width for them so they’ll fit it perfectly for mobile…
- Added some slight space between the bottom comic navigation and the responsive ad, to lessen misclicks.
And sorry, but you still have to zoom-in and/or read in landscape orientation for most of the comics since I have to convert them to the vertical format first, which takes a lot of time, plus not all pages will fit the format correctly.
I was thinking if I should permanently change to a square/vertical/manga page format to make things easier for myself. I still like the horizontal strip format a lot though, but I’ll think about this more seriously after the current Episode is over. What do you guys think?
New Discord Emojis
IndiSkye and MCWildcat boosted the Cat Nine Discord server, so we got 100+ more emoji slots to use, so thanks you two! Now we have a lot more emojis to abuse. I hope I won’t regret adding some of these, especially those two with Myan and Tammy licking!
Comicad Ads
Remember Project Wonderful (RIP)? A couple of guys started a replacement called Comicad.net, and I’m already using it to publish and advertise as some of you have already seen. Perhaps if it performs better than Google Adsense, I’ll even replace all of them with these.
So if you guys got a website, comic, or artwork to advertise, why not start here? For now, I’ve got two ad units:
- Leaderboard (728×90): This leaderboard ad shows at the top of most pages, and more importantly, near comic pages, so it’s prime real estate! Has a minimum of $0.15 though. I replaced an Adsense responsive ad for this, but it’s starting to look like it’s worth it.
- Skyscraper (160×600): Found on the bottom left sidebar. Visible while scrolling down the homepage, most posts/pages, and the comments section. No minimum bid. And for now, I’ve also set it so it will follow people around when they scroll down for maximum visibility! I hope that doesn’t annoy people too much though… but hey, most of you are reading for free you know!
- NEW! Square (300×250):Â Replaced another responsive Google ad, this time in the left sidebar. Added 2/9/2020. Looks like there’s a max of 3 ads per website with Comicads.
Finally, depending on your Patreon tier, these three ads will be disabled similarly with Adsense ads if you’re logged-in.