I am updating the site with the latest version of Comicpress and redesigning it to make better use of the new templates.

Production-wise, I am working on the script some more, and laying out the pages.  The first pages might be published before Hell freezes over, or not.

I’ve also just picked up a copy of Scott McCloud’s Making Comics.  I haven’t had a chance to read much of it, because I have had a god-awful sinus cold for the last few days, but I enjoyed Understanding Comics and I can only imagine this one will be even more enjoyable and informative.

I’ve finally upgraded to Firefox 3.  I was pleasantly surprised to find that my menu customizations (mostly) transferred from version 2 to version 3 without any problems.   It is mildly irritating that Tab Mix Plus doesn’t yet work with FF3, but 70% of my plugins work just fine.

Overall, I hadn’t noticed any big improvement over version 2.  Nothing has leapt out at me as being “way better” in Firefox 3 than it was in 2 — in fact, not being able to use my Tab Mix Plus customizations actually makes tabbed browsing more annoying in the new version of the browser.  Hopefully, TMP will be made compatible soon.

The only thing that I can say is better in 3 is that they’ve finally fixed the annoying tooltip bug.  Now I can read the tooltip punchline in Dinosaur Comics without having to view the HTML source.  The bug in firefox was identified in 2003.  It finally got fixed in 2008.  Hooray Mozilla!

Once again, I’m busy trying to get this site to display properly on different browsers, and there’s some fiddling problem with the sidebar CSS that is giving me a headache.  Argh.