1/6/2008
Happy New Year everyone! It's been exactly one year since I first launched DryIce! I'm a bit busy with moving back to my university right now, but I'm going to post a little anniversary present within the week, I promise! (As well as color the anniversary comic, I had forgotten it was still in black and white.) I hope you've been enjoying the site so far, and will enjoy it for further years to come.
1/9/2008: Anniversary Edition!
So here's what my site looked like when I first launched:
Pretty sad, eh? I've done a lot, a lot of work on my site. That screenshot is courtesy of wayback machine. I wish I could show you more intermediates, but unfortunately they're lost forever on my stolen flash drive. Ah well. I've got a new flash drive now, courtesy a very generous Christmas giver, thank you. Instead, I can tell you all the changes I remember making to the site.
- Color, color, color! Everything is in color now, how fantastic is that? I had to go through and redraw lots of comics. But it was worth it.
- Different menu bar images. I made like 10 different menu buttons, applying 4 on my site before finally settling on the one I have now and love.
Backgrounds: I had added a horrific snowflake background, which got scrapped for the design you see before you now. - More snowmen on the top banner! There was one intermediate with a few more snowmen than the amount given up in that screenshot. Recently I made a few tweaks to the snowman banner making it reflect the ethnic diversity found elsewhere on my site.
- Next/Previous Buttons. Before I made you users use the archive page for navigation. Now you don't need to know those helpful shortcut keys to quickly navigate my site.
- This awesome review, highly recommend reading it all.
- Changed from relying on table layout to nearly completely CSS. And it looks fantastic, I must say.
- Added a search function. Seriously, how awesome is that?
- Still working on that game. It's way behind I know.
1/15/2008
Slight updating delay, but we're back on track now!
1/23/2008
I've been doing a lot of work on that special treat! Sorry I've been a bit slow about posting it; school gets pretty heavy and the time just flies away! It should be up Friday at the latest, yay!
1/30/2008
Hey there, I've got some good news! I've made a nice little Dry Ice comic wiki! It's a bit rough still, but I ![[popsicle] turd sandwich!](../images/blog/turd-sandwich.jpg)
can edit it any time, hahaha! Check it out. Hope you like it. I was reading someone else's webcomic when a string of links led me to the comixpedia.org compendium. It's pretty thorough. So I spent a long time making it awesome and getting good-sized screenshots and all that awesomeness. I know the blog probably looks like a broken record by now, but I'm still working on that special treat. Sheesh, that's why I get when I procrastinate. At any rate, I should have it up by Friday, so yay. I'll tell you at least what it's about: a really cool easter egg in a game full of awesome easter eggs.
In other news, I changed the home page slightly so that you can see when the blog updates instead of just clicking and hoping, or not clicking at all. If you've just started checking out the blog, I wouldn't read through the rest. It's all pretty boring. Except for that chunk of image awesomeness on the right.