I’ve stopped accepting submissions for the Web Design Hot Seat. But it was such a popular feature, I may swing around to the topic again some time — or even apply the idea to other aspects of cartooning.
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If you’re celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday today, food and family gatherings are most likely the order of the day. And if you’re like most cartoonists I’ve met, your slightly more excited about the food (and wish you could get by without the large family gathering part).
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We all obsess over our Web stats — even though we know we shouldn’t. But paying a little healthy attention to your Web stats is actually a good way to gauge your progress and tweak your site’s performance. The trick here is not to get hung up on the numbers, but to pay attention instead to trends.
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Since the topic of Facebook Fan Pages has sprouted in the forum, it might be a good idea to take a look around at a few thoughts about doing it well.
To set a Fan Page up, go to Facebook’s site for creating a fan page. At first, your Fan Page will be a glorified Facebook profile page — Wall, photos, news feed, list of fans, and so on. Of course, you don’t want to stop there.
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John Bogenschutz offered MOF Comic for a Web site review. It’s a pretty well-done site, but I’m obsessed with getting as much on the first screen as possible, so I’m gonna really move stuff around. Tell me if you think it will work. Here’s the original site:
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The cartoonist who does Bunny Pandemic (who also doesn’t sign his or her e-mails nor includes a name on the site) offered the BP site for design review. Since it is an example of a square-shaped comic, it might be a good idea to see how it would best be laid out.
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Laurie of Galactic Divine has volunteered her site, Galactic Divine, for a Web site critique. She’s doing a long-form, full-page comic — which brings with it a number of specific challenges. Once again, this is what I see on the first screen (my resolution is 1152×870).
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Tony Piro, of Calamities of Nature, has bravely volunteered his comic as a test subject for the Web design hot seat. Luckily, he’s got a pretty tight site design, but we’ll do out best to workshop it. For the record, what you see below is the “first screen” of the site as it loaded on my screen (1152 x 870).
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Many webcomic sites fall into the same traps in designing a place that a new reader can easily navigate and assimilate. Tweaking your site in these three areas will make your site more navigatable to new readers — which will translate into greater reader-retention and higher pageviews.
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Just a quick reminder about a Webcomics.com posting guideline: No plugging.
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