*sigh* So I feel like I’ve given over fully to the Dark Side. The sad part about it is, I also LIKE it!
Heh. So yeah, prior to this week I was a die-hard Webcomic plugin guy. I test drove the Comicpress theme when I was first building the Dynagirl site over a year ago and hated it from top to bottom. HATE HATE HATED it! Then just when I was at a moment of pure despair…TA DA! I found the Webcomic plugin! It had everything! It was easy to use, it looked kick ass, and the learning curve was suitably quick enough that I didn’t have to buy a manual or spend a month trying to figure out a million lines of code! Woo!
Fast forward to yesterday. I tooled up the Dead Reckoning site about three months ago, and our hits have shot through the roof since we started putting up new pages of the Dead Reckoning: Square story Scottie and I did last year. Since we were getting lots more interest I figured I’d clean things up a bit and get it ready for the release of some brand new initiatives we’re working out right now. A sort of working ahead sort of thing if you will. I know, rare for me. But anyway…when I went in to basically rock a clone of the Dynagirl site, it all went to hell in a handbasket. For one thing, I hate the new version of Webcomic. HATE HATE HATE it! It’s nothing like the plugin I fell in love with and still use on the Dynagirl site at all! That’s one of the biggest reasons I haven’t updated to the new version over there yet, because I feared the worst, and it has come true.
So now what?! I mean Webcomic sucks ass, I’d already found dislike for Comicpress…ARGH! So I messed around with things a bit and decided to bite the bullet and give Comicpress another try. Like Webcomic they’ve gone through a couple of revisions in the interim, so why not right? Turns out, I don’t completely hate it. It does have some incredibly annoying aspects that make me want to strike my head repeatedly on a cement wall, but once I learned work-arounds for most of them, I found it not completely unpleasant. So that’s what you’re seeing around here now, the results of my falling to the Dark Side and finally embracing Comicpress. I’m still not completely convinced there’s not a bounty hunter waiting to encase me in carbonite lurking around the corner…but it’ll do for now.
