Hey... wanna' see something Strange & Mysterious? = )
Here's the (current) working design for my strip's next visual update. Note the date on the left, just above the newsletter widget. The side bars may change but the overall look & basic placements? Not so much.
Fear Not! If I use this, there will be Far fewer ads as that's not how things work anymore. = P
I love how, when I was going around looking at pages I enjoyed the layout of & wanted to spend time on outside of just reading their comics, I kinda' landed back here on this design from 2011.
See, I play around w/ layouts and whatnot in Fireworks. Although I don't use the built-in ability to spit out questionable code, I do use it like a sketch page. Everything has a place & visualizing it like this helps.
It also has the numbers I need for later so that helps, too.
Bonus: I can 100% still use this as a nice jumping off point for the smaller mobile vers of the site. The remaining ads go away, the main menu becomes a dropdown & the side columns get scrapped in favor of a single w/ just the news posts.
I'd say "Everything Old is New Again" but this is just a basic test w/ a nostalgic tinge of scrapped designs past. = P
Erik Amill