Changeblog

I return after ten whole days to bring many an update. The Home, Credits, and (secret) Media pages had their contents updated slightly. The page titles also got a style upgrade, reflecting my original vision better, and the comic page's title now reflects the test comic's formal name of "Test Comic." Speaking of the comic page, remember those buttons that I said were useless? I added them back and grayed them out to make the UI stay in the same position. Looks like they had a use after all! In other news, the Page Not Found page now has more content than before, and the Archive page was redesigned to keep the pages in a nicer format for the future. Lastly, I am beginning to test a commenting/description feature on the comic pages! Some pages now have a short wad of text below them, so make sure to check that out! That's all for updates, so I'm going to get back to work on that comic. See you eventually!

I originally wrote a different changeblog post today, but then I made so many changes afterward that I had to rewrite the whole dang thing. So, what's new around here? Well, the Archive page will now scroll down to the page's contents while you're reading it so that you don't have to scroll past the header every time, and some of the buttons in the UI were removed on the first and last pages due to being useless. The usability train never stops, people. On the subject of the website's layout, a few changes were made, including fixing the centering and properties of the page titles and adding a cool banner to the home page. The plan is to add more banners over time once I pass the threshold of one complete webcomic. Also, I changed the cursor that displays on the website to be a funky little hand that I drew! I think it's a neat little thingamabob. Lastly, I updated a secret page on the site to actually have a useful purpose! It's definitely not the scrapped Media page, no sirree. That's all for today, though.

Today's update brings some very welcomed layout changes to the structure of the site. First of all, I replaced the navigation bars on all the pages with a sleek and new design I tested out months ago. You may notice, however, that the "Media" page is missing! Do not be alarmed, as this is merely due to the fact that the Media page was useless from the start. I mean, why did I need a page there to begin with? All it had was a bit of text and an image on it. Besides, removing it from the navigation bar improves how the site looks on mobile devices. Speaking of mobile, this update makes the site look miles better on most phones. The site has never been more usable! Lastly, I added a cool-looking box around the "Read from start or latest" text. It's small, but I think it's nice.

As for the promised content to be added to the site, know that ideas are taking form in my spooky haunted laboratory. You'll see what I'm concocting one day. It's only a matter of time...

You all thought, didn't you? You really thought that the site would have the same subject matter forever? Well, this is true NO LONGER! A large change has recently taken place, so allow me elaborate.

This site used to host a page detailing a webcomic called "Webcomical" that would release on the site one day. Now, however, it is a site called "Webcomical" that is meant to house all sorts of wacky and zany shenanigains in the form of different webcomics. So, the difference is that I changed the name of the webcomic to the name of the website. Simple enough, right? This change opens the site up to many more possibilities, allowing me to publish as many things as I like over any period of time. Oh, and don't worry about the original ideas for "Webcomical" that I wrote about here before. It's a secret, but the ultimate goal of this website is still to produce that comic under the same name as the site. I just want to have some practice before I fully commit myself to that massive and possibly unattainable goal.

In other news, the Archive page got another update. You can now use the arrow keys to flip the pages of the comic, and the UI for page navigation is now on both the top and bottom of the page. We are achieving MAXIMUM USABILITY!

Anyhoo, expect something of actual substance sooner or later. Goodbye for now, and have a nice 2,999 years until the first comic releases!

It is time for a little update! There's not much more to do with the website anymore, so I'm really going to buckle down on webcomic creation. I can't wait to show you what I've been cooking up. In the meantime, I will still produce small updates on this website for the sake of improvement. They will be slower than normal, but I think that's fine, right?

Today, however, I updated the Read page to be an Archive page for when any portion of Webcomical releases. The actual Read page also got the Save and Load buttons moved to the bottom of the page. This should help a little with navigiation and decent viewing on mobile phones. Additionally, I recreated the first comic page because I drew it with my mouse instead of my PC's drawing tablet and it was really annoying me. With that, I think I can say this website is mostly feature-complete. See you in approximately 3,000 years when Webcomical arrives!

Hip, hip, hooray! Today, I bring you an actual comic of sorts. Mind you, this comic has absolutely nothing to do with Webcomical at all and is only here for testing purposes. At least I can entertain you with something. At the time of writing, four pages of this test comic have been released. I don't plan on making any more unless the actual comic takes forever to make.

Feature-wise, a saving and loading system has been implemented so that you don't have to bookmark your most recent page! This saved page is stored using cookies, so don't toss them if you've saved a page. First and last page buttons were also added, making navigation easier. Sadly, this new update tooks terrible on most mobile devices. Eh, mobile users are last on the priority list anyways. Overall, I'd say that the Read page's development is going to come to a close pretty soon. Get ready for a webcomic, folks.

Happy December, the season of giving. This holiday season, I give to you a mostly functional Read page! Something I once thought to be impossible is now staring me straight in the face, and I couldn't be happier. New features include being able to click on the image to move through pages, a cleaner UI (with poorly-drawn arrows), and the images resizing horizontally for different resolutions. I'm aware that on 16:9 monitors it looks kind of bad, but it doesn't really matter because it's more likely that the pages will be taller than your screen if you want it to be readable. Scrolling is inevitable, sadly. I also generally updated the site, adding a much-needed Neocities link in the credits and putting something special on the "Page Not Found" page.

In terms of the webcomic itself, creation is set to start very soon. It's kind of daunting going into a large-scale project like this because I never feel like I've planned enough! The first section of Webcomical has a good chance of showing up early 2024, but don't take my word for it. I can be seriously lazy. Anyhoo, thank you for supporting my webcomic, and have a nice holiday!

Today I've changed a few things on the website. Fixed some typos, updated the empty read page, changed a ton of directories and links and then changed them all back, blah blah blah. More importantly, I've been making breakthroughs in terms of getting the website to function how I need it to. All I can say is that the first part of the comic most definitely could release sometime in 2024 at this pace. Want to know why? It's because the read page is, at long last, partially functional. Even just this tiny bit of functionality is good enough for me. It looks digusting right now, but it works. Praise be the magic of the code...

I am going mad. I know that's a huge tone shift from my previous post, but I am enraged at making this website right now. Did I mention to you that this is my first time using HTML and CSS? I think I did a pretty nice job so far, but now I'm realizing how much can go wrong with what I have here. The end goal for Webcomical is to have a fully-produced webcomic with a clean UI that all devices may enjoy. Right now, all I want to do is get the framework for posting the comic completed. You know, getting it so that there's one panel at a time on a single HTML file using some Javascript. I know it's possible, but I can't get it right. Take a look at Rarebit, that's the kind of thing I want to make.

Now, that also brings up the question of "Why not just use Rarebit? The stuff you need is already there!" Well, the way that I plan to format the comic right now makes it hard to use Rarebit without some serious modifications. I don't want to go sifting through someone else's code for hours just to break it and end up nowhere. Also, I'm making this to learn things, not cheat my way past my problems. Rarebit does have my respect, though.

At this rate, I might just post all the images on a big HTML file and not even bother making them display on their own.

Today's the day, folks! My wonderous idea has finally spilled its way onto the floor of the kitchen that is the internet! Unfortunately, the supposed webcomic I am promising to a wider audience will not be here for a while. Until I can figure out how to host my own webcomic on here without having to make a new HTML file every time, the comic won't release. It's a shame, but I do need to work on this website more before I make any major advances on the comic. In the meantime, perhaps I can share the crusty old beta version of Webcomical I posted for exactly two minutes in the past. We'll see how that goes.