Beta += 1

This is RobotPonyGo figure. A beta of less than a year. I guess there really wasn’t as much to beta as I thought.

What’s new?

July 2008

  • Not many posts … too much OT at work
  • Many ideas for site, though (including a real news feed)

May 2008

  • The ads are still gone. Ads suck.
  • Work is really busy this spring, updates are 75.36% less frequent than planned.
  • Traffic sucks, growing more slowly than anticipated. Slightly less than 1k unique page views per day. D’oh.

Feb 2008

  • The ads are gone. Google ads are crap. I might put interesting ads up later, something that doesn’t whore up the site.
  • I pulled off the retarded copyright stuff (thanks to all who kicked me for that one). I’ve opened up the copyright in a nice-fucking-netizen sort of way.
  • I re-styled the site, to fix some IE7/iPhone bugs (it’s mostly done, and mostly better). IE didn’t like right-floating in a div, and mobile Safari wasn’t a fan of the fixed-height column header.
  • I reworked many of the older strips ((And I disabled the ones I haven’t done yet. They’ll be back.)) to fit in one basic size, with more consistent spacing. I scripted it too, as I’m a clever bastard.

Dec 2008

  • First post. A beta release, rough around the edges. Live with it.

Prehistory

  • Posted random comics to my weblog, causing server meltdowns and shit.

TODO

  • Navigation on the top. I know someone is going to complain about not having it.
  • The archives suck (don’t they on most sites?). Maybe a by-topic or by-tag archive would be better. Ideas?
  • Post more. Right now I’m only hitting 1-per-week.
  • Add a hover or auto-generated link to the SVG source for each comic. The files are on the server already, I just don’t want to hand-craft HREFs to each one.
  • Look at a rating or voting system for fun.
  • Advertise/self-promote.
  • Get around to t-shirts, and later a print-on-demand-vanity book.