The Big Day
January 14th, 2008Most of the work is done, tonight for me will consist of ticking some checkboxes and shuffling some files around. Riess has one more thing to do. After that, the prologue will be up, and we’ll be (gasp) live. The way this Wordpress theme works is that comics are stored as files marked by date so the theme grabs them from a folder and then displays them, but by the nature of that system one cannot post more than one comic a day. Normally that would be fine, except for our case where we’re posting a block. The easy workaround is simply to backdate them for the past nine days, and then they’ll display sequentially. The downside is that for anyone coming into the site, the most recent comic displays first, so we’re going to temporarily end with a splash that directs people to check the archives and read from the beginning. Hopefully this will be more straightforward than it sounds.
Anyway Riess and I are both so excited we can’t contain ourselves so I’ve already made a signature image with spoiler art. If you’ve clicked it from a forum, I apologize but you’ll have to wait ONE MORE DAY to actually see the comic! Please come back. I’m sorry to be a tease.
January 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am
It actually took two minutes and sixteen seconds to tick all the boxes and move the files. I probably could have done it faster if I had moved the files and then ticked the boxes.