New Site! (17 comments)

New Site!

Monday, July 09, 2012 - 10:23 PM

It's been a long time a-comin', but the new Sheldon site is live. We were shooting for a cheerier, cleaner look that streamlined the site...and I think it came out pretty great! I hope you like it.
Speaking of which: I need to publicly thank Tyler Martin for the excellent design work, and Phillip Karlsson for the hosting implementation. As with any new site, there will be bugs a-plenty, so please bear with me (especially as this is launching while I'm away at SDCC, and can't fix much until next week). But we'll get to any bugs, I promise!

A few notes on the new site:
- As you may have noticed, all the strips will be growing larger, from 800px wide to 900px wide. It's gonna make for a much better reading experience. But! We've only upsized about 3,000 of the 3,500...so those won't go live just yet.
- One of my favorite new features is the "5 years ago today" section, which shows you what strip ran way back when. Just click the image to read that strip!
- There's now a "permalink" button for linking to today's strip, and social media links! Woo! 2007, here I come!
- On the "Extras" link, you'll see I've started adding in videos. I'll be adding more, as we go...especially as trailers for the movie start appearing!
- The formatting of the store and forums are both still wonky, as we go live. I'll attend to those next week. Be patient if you notice something weird: We'll get it fixed.
- Previously, if you missed grabbing the original art, you were out of luck. But now, you can grab a print of it.
As always, bug catches are appreciated, either below in the comments (...if they're working! Ha!) or via e-mail to me. Thanks, all!

mcmiam01


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Monday, July 09, 2012 - 10:55 PM (#61830)

Site looks great Dave! While giving it a facelift, you were able to keep that same aesthetic/feeling that goes very well with your artwork. So kudos!

One thing I've noticed though, after clicking the "Reply Comment" button it seems the text from the original post that I am replying to is not wrapping to stay contained within the border of the notebook page. I'm on a Mac in Safari 5.1.7.

If it helps I'll shoot an email containing a screenshot with some details. I'll also take a look in chrome and Firefox too.


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markstickley
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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 02:55 AM (#61831)

Wow congrats! The new site looks great. If you have access to an iPad you might want to look at this page though - the formatting looks a bit off. I can send a screenshot if that's helpful...


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Lauren_Ipsum


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 03:10 AM (#61832)

It's beautiful! Great job!


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RichC


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 04:57 AM (#61833)

Congrats Dave! And I think your 'way back machine' is very cool!


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blisbmb


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 08:22 AM (#61834)
In Response to mcmiam01 (#61830):

Same here using Windows and Chrome. Also, at the end of people'e comments the "reply profile www" are all squished together. and the "reply" link, doesn't look like one.

That being said, this new update is great, a great improvement.

p.s. I was wondering about Sheldon, and his company. That was some of my favorite stuff.


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Marj


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 08:27 AM (#61835)

The new design looks great. It suits the style of Sheldon and his world much better than the old one did.

Hooray for stronger brand recognition.


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reggerard


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 08:32 AM (#61836)

It looks great!!! Thanks for the new option for prints. I have 2 originals already and their are plenty of originals I missed out on that I would buy prints of.

I am seeing the same problems everyone is talking about above. I am using Google Chrome on a Dell.

Keep up the good work, Dave. Love the return to the company story line.


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 08:47 AM (#61837)

Nice, clean new look. Though I also liked the old site, it had a few spots where it was fraying around the edges.

One bug, besides the notebook paper one others have mentioned: archive search does not work from the home page. If you go to the search page and enter your search terms, it does work there.

I nearly panicked when it took me all of five seconds to find the archive search. :P I use it constantly.


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 09:30 AM (#61838)

Where's the link to search the archive? We've turned on a lot of our friends to Sheldon by mentioning a strip and then bringing it up and showing it to them. Without a way to search the archive we won't be able to show our friends the strip we thought they'd like or that we were referencing.

Also there's no link to the forum or the blog? I had the devil's time finding the way to mention I couldn't find the archive. Will the archive, the forum and the blog be phased out?

Sad and Easily Confused...


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drow


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 09:33 AM (#61839)

looks pretty, but everytime i click on anything a little animated image of gramps pops up and exclaims, "lemon curry?"


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Rattiar


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 09:44 AM (#61840)

The site looks great, Dave! Oftentimes, the internet hates any site revamp because it is different and, therefore, scary. This looks great though. The only thing missing is a link to Drive Speaking of Drive...? :)


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 10:15 AM (#61841)

I really did like the wood desk look of the old site. However this new site IS pretty snazzy. I especially like the Tweet Guy.


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 12:45 PM (#61842)

"On the "Extras" link, you'll see I've started adding in videos. I'll be adding more, as we go...especially as trailers for the movie start appearing!"

Wait... There's a movie coming!!?


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mcmiam01


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 03:48 PM (#61843)
In Response to PhotoRob (#61842):

Dave and film-maker Fred Schroeder have been working on a documentary. Some of the work going into it was funded through Kickstarter. From what I remember, it was the "fancy" bits and post production work. More info can be found here:

Stripped Documentary [kickstarter.com]


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wombat


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 05:25 AM (#61847)

The permalink button doesn't work.


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tiredcynic


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 08:50 AM (#61852)

Huge congrats, Dave, and serious respect for all the work you've put into your art through the years. I can't wait to see what the coming years bring...


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Re: New Site! (Score: 0)
posted Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 07:53 PM (#61855)

I am always very impressed with the look and feel of the comic and the site. The redesign looks awesome. It's inspiring as I attempt to organize a site of my own. Thanks for such a great comic and an awesome site. You really demonstrate how one to make a successful web comics.


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