DD update post 17th of March

Site redesign update, NEWS!

The new comic page template is up and running on the test site here: https://next.theduckwebcomics.com/
However, I've been working to make sure it will have a seamless transition to incorporating the customisations on people's individual comic templates so I had to make a few changes to Em's templates. These are her awesome templates with my small changes. *(compact on the left, full size on the right)
Click on the pics for the full versions:

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THIS is how I envisage them working with three different customised comic templates. I picked these because the originals incorporate a variety of custom features like a border on the comic, side image links, top image links, custom background, custom buttons, and top navigation as well as bottom.
Click on the pics for the full versions:

Chary the Vampirate:
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Original - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Charby_the_Vampirate/

Fred Peterson:
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Original - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Fred_Peterson_The_Mighty_Warlord_Book_1/

Bottomless Waitress:
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Original - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Bottomless_Waitress/
* The background image for Bottomless Waitress will stay still while the rest of the page scrolls over it like in the original link.

I worked hard to make sure existing user customisations can work with Em's great new designs, (which she worked hard on too). The adaptations aren't not perfect yet but it's a good start! Maybe DD site links will need to change colour to accommodate different colour backgrounds or maybe they can have their own background colour or a transparent faded background or something so they don't disappear with dark BGs?
Hopefully Alexey can work with these because I strongly feel we need to make the transition to a new design as smooth as we can and not piss people off by changing their stuff.


- Lastly I've paid another $800 USD to Alexey for his continued work (from my own money), our advertising and Patreon doesn't cover that so this is why the development time is so slow. Bear with us, we don't have the resources to go faster ^_^
I hope you like this update, I'm happy to keep you informed about the progress and our process!


The previous update is here - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/news/2023/feb/28/dd-update-post-3rd-of-march/.
Comments and feedback welcome and needed as always!


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