D.J. Coffman - Sequential Artist, Thinker

“An honest man will never have any other.”

Holy Tenacious Tediousness!

I got some work put in today, let me tell you! — Gave HeroByNight.com a little makeover.

Most of it is long over due. For a long time the “latest” button didn’t work properly and I could never figure out why. Nor could anyone tell me why it only didn’t work on MY drunk duck site of all places. It baffled me.– Well digging down I figured it out… more on that in a moment, but here’s the big things I worked on today which took some time to get right.

New header. By gads! We actually have a link to the STORE now where you can buy actual stuff Platinum has had for sale. They have some nice CGC graded comics for collectors and even an HBN shirt on page 2 of the store page. Basically all the old links in the nice header graphic were pointing to things that were way out of date, like our cool trailer for the miniseries– but the miniseries is long gone. Also there’s a better link to the forum, where I will be doing most of my hanging at on a daily basis in the new year.

And the BIGGIE will be “Hero By Night Universe”, there’s a big tab, the first thing on the header menu is a link to a new database I’ll be building of all the key characters, moments, etc. The direct link is HeroByNight.com/world  - Right now it’s pretty blank, but this will be the link listed inside of panels of future comic stories, so new readers who see someone like Saul Simian or Professor Nowhere and want to learn more about them, can do so at their leisure at the website. I’m looking to have “featured” character posts that might even reveal a little more about the characters that hasn’t seen print yet.

Okay— time to eat!

3 Comments so far

  1. Ray December 28th, 2007 7:23 am

    Excellent stuff and should be great when it starts to be filled out. Small niggle: “SEARCH FEATURE and CATERGORIES. ” - you have an extra R in Categories there. As I said - small niggle.

    Will you be moving to a wiki eventually or is this something you’d rather update/edit yourself?

  2. DJ Coffman December 28th, 2007 1:53 pm

    Thanks for looking out, Ray!

    I was thinking of a wiki, but figured the wordpress gives me a bit more expandability with features, etc — I would consider adding other writers or authors there.

  3. Ray December 29th, 2007 7:19 am

    Probably a good idea - you’d need a staff to keep an eye on the wiki. I recently went looking for some wireless drivers and found a wiki where spammers had overwritten almost every entry. Not everyone is a useful member of society!

    Good luck with HBN and your other projects for 2008!

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