Wow, Laura drew this up today to show her interpretation of the character (the top scribbles are my drawings explaining what I’m looking for and the rest is hers)
If you like it be sure to donate to my Patreon as that is where I am getting the money to pay her for her work and currently can only afford a single page a month (would love to get Patreon up to 250$ a month so can get this turned into a weekly comic)
Pro-tip: You need to get a Patreon link on the front page, and towards the top of the page. If people have to search the text to find a link they are less likely to use it.
Same goes for a TWC voting link.
It may be true ADHD is becoming more prevalent but it was true long ago even in the earlier days of web design: if your page took longer than 10 seconds to load, people would skip it, and if the link wasn’t visible in the first screen’s worth of text, very few would click it.
You think that’s bad now, try meeting that standard on the assumption your viewers were using a 14.4K modem. o.O And people wonder why older pages didn’t have a whole lot of even low-res graphics, let alone multimedia? Most of my pages didn’t even have a background image, it killed the load times. Instead I used careful shading of a hidden table to provide a mosaic-style background.
Oh, and on top of all that, your viewers were likely using a 4:3 ratio monitor, probably only 12″ or 14″ and hopefully at least 800×600 resolution. Yeah, we had to fit entire intro pages into the space now thought to be practically a THUMBNAIL. We had skilllllllz …
I’m still trying to figure out how to put pictures into the sidebars and to make said pictures links. I read a tutorial and followed it but it didn’t work, still figuring things out.