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Do you hate the new layout for the site that I hastily threw together right before I got married? Of course you do: all right-thinking people do. Well, I think I’ve managed to come up with an alternative, one will improve on just about everything. So if things look wacky for the next little while, it’s because I’m fine-tuning it. Feel free to post any comments on how great it is, or problems you have with it, on this post.

Update: OK, so that seems to have gone relatively smoothly. I’m sure there are quirks, though, so this is the place to gripe about ’em.

Update II: OK, I’ve managed to fix a lot of problems, but I’ve still got one that is held over from the previous layout — its been driving me nuts since I switched to WordPress 1.5. I am posting this as a plea for help from l33t CSS hax0rs. Basically, on my old WordPress 1.2 layout, images could be as wide as they wanted: if they were wider than the main column, they just cheerfully extruded over the right margin. But in both the previous template and this one, comics that are wider than the main column just get pushed down below the nav bar. I have been reducing the size of the comics somewhat to try to minimize the number of people this happens to, but my ideal would be to go back to the way things were, since I’m never going to keep the comics a reasonable size and accommodate all users. (You’d be surprised how many of my visitors have 800 by 600 screens.) But I don’t have a clue how to even begin figuring what the differences in the layouts were that caused this change. A clue would be appreciated!

Update III: Electric Boogalee: More tweaking imminent. Things may look funky in the near future.

Update IV: The new batch: OK, some of the issues, like the grey stripe and the post numbers vs. sidebar issue, should now be fixed. Still can’t figure out why the big comics don’t like the sidebar though. Please help, helpful people!

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Herb and Jamaal, 10/25/05

We don’t get Herb and Jamaal in the paper anymore, so I had to act this one out for Mrs. C. (I don’t think I have to explain why I felt a need to share the content of this particular strip.) Anyway, her response was, “Isn’t that what married life is about? Spitting milk back into containers for one another?” Then she (an aficionado of soy milk) followed up with: “Anyway, I don’t give a shit if you do that, because I don’t drink cow juice.” So there you have it, folks: I’ve been given a green light to not only drink milk right of the container, but also to spit it back into said container. And, since I have no interest in soy goo, she’s got a similar free pass on spewing hers back into the handy-seal box it comes out of. I guess the lesson here is: if you come to our house, bring your own milk.

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Shoe, 10/24/05

Isn’t it enough, O current toilers over at Shoe central, that you have glommed onto the legacy of a successful comic strip and can pretty much blather on in a vaguely amusing fashion over two or three panels every day because if the strip were to get pulled, dozens of doddering Korean War veterans would write nasty leaders saying that they didn’t get strafed by the Red Chinese just so they could come home to a nation so ungrateful that it took their favorite comic out of the paper? Don’t you at least have the common courtesy to make the jokes in Shoe relate in some peripheral way to the characters and/or setting? Did you have no other way to offer up this lame-ass, heaving, flopping, stinking, sorry slab of non-humor than in the context of a completely nonsensical “letter to the editor” that no one would ever, ever write? Were you so bursting with anticipation on this joke that you felt you had to share it with all of us, those who fought honorably in Korea and those who did not? Were there no family barbecues where you could trot out this little number and let it die a deserved death? Were there no brothers in law or adorable towheaded nephews you could inflict it upon? Did it have to be this way? Have you no sense of decency, sirs, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?