So some good news. Now, many years ago, after I'd been writing this blog for half a decade, Muir did a website change that rendered a huge swathe of my links dead--or deadish. They'd take you to the site, but not to any comic. And I mean a lot of strips--I had done not only every strip that had been published during the blog's existence, but every strip published prior. Going through and fixing that would be a monumental task.
Which I have now completed. Nearly all the links work. While there's a possibility of my missing a few, what's more definite is that a few strips have vanished, including a flash-animated strip that Muir apparently lost during the move and has never fixed up.
So, there you go. Won't lie, I'm quite happy to have pulled this off. I should add that I'm still going through my archives and fiddling with things, so the Project isn't finished, but the most substantial part of it is done.
Thank you for your hard work! One of these days I might want to delve into the old strips, and I'm thinking that might be easier to do from your blog than Muir's crappy website.
ReplyDeleteI’ve ranted about this before but I can’t BELIEVE how bad that site is. It’s like — if a good, smooth, easily navigable website is a large, open school gym, DBD is a rabbit’s-warren disaster of added rooms, hastily built hallways that lead to dead ends, pointless walls and partitions, with no center, no plan, and no way to move through the entire space without being blocked off at various points and having to find another hallway.
DeleteThank you for your thanks, and now a quick comment on site navigation.
DeleteObviously, for everything in 2010 and beyond, it's pretty easy--just go to the year, and you'll find the posts for that year.
For the rest--for most just hit the appropriate YK-- tag, and then hit the Older Posts button until it won't take you any farther and boom, just follow along.
But there's an exception. 2009 is when I started and, well, I started about halfway through the year. And so, after a bit working, I created two special navigation tags to help things out. If you want to check out the start of the year, which would be the last true All Our Yesterdays I ever did, just hit the '?' mark tag. When you've read all of those, hit 'The Daily Day' tag, which was what I originally called the Day's Day of Days, before... well, on the very last one, someone asks me to change the name because he was using it for his own site, and I obliged.
When you're done with 'The Daily Day' posts, then hit the '!' point tag, and that will give you 2009's TDDoDs.
Yeah, it's a little Byzantine, but it's still easier than making your way through that damn site of his.
Also, if you really want to read 'Holy Tera', I've figured out how, and can explain it.
It will be underwhelming, mind you. It's mostly recycled from that last spinoff attempt, only... somehow crazier and worse.
Or now you can just use the convenient pages I just added.
ReplyDeleteNice--even better!! Again, many thanks!
DeleteI have to mention an irritating quirk I've discovered--while these pages link you to the start of my posts on their respective years of comics, the way Blogspot makes these lists means that when you hit the 'Newer Posts' button, you are then hurled all the way to the end of the year, and will then have to keep hitting the 'Older Posts' button to find your place again.
DeleteMea culpa, though at least this way, you know what the starting/ending point looks like.
Right, so, I've now got it that the entire All Our Yesterday and Year 2099 archives are visible on a few pages. The downside is, well, those pages are huge, but, let's be honest, anybody going back that far knows what an archive dive they're in for.
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