I’ll close the poll for this year’s Halloween theme on Nov. 11 10pm PST.
Seems my entry, Undertale, is the current favorite. Let me tell you, I am really tempted to close the polls right now so I can work on the banner and wallpaper for it since it’s honestly one of the best games I’ve played for a while. If you have the time, you should probably give the free demo a try!
Anyway, things might still change by Wednesday so let’s all wait until then!
It’s way past Halloween now, but don’t let that stop you from voting for 2015’s new Halloween banner! I’ll also make a wallpaper, which will be available for everyone. Votes end this November 11.
Poll closed and removed!
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.
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!
Poll closed and removed!
I’ve deleted my Tapas account and all comics under it as of March 2, 2021
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
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.
Cause
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!
Copy-paste from my post in the Comic Fury forums
All this sitting around drawing, writing, coloring, etc. Yeah, it’s not good for your health. Even more so if your hobbies also involve a lot of sitting around (video games, reading, surfing, Facebook, etc).
So I just want to say to everybody, maybe take a walk, stretch a little, or even better, plan a regular exercise schedule! Just so you won’t encounter into any health problems later on. Mind you, I’m still a beginner at exercise, but boy do I feel great! Aaaand losing a bit of weight, and gaining some muscle certainly doesn’t hurt.
Welp, good luck to everyone on their comic, and stay healthy!
