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Sorry I can't blather on more at length... but my time is woefully limited these days....

I mention, as it kinda leads in to the topic of my post....

I get to check my webcomics every couple weeks or so. This is annoying, but not a big deal for most comics, as they have a very simple, easy to find 'previous' button to take the reader back a single page in history to see what happened yesterday (or last week, or whenever the last update was.)...

SLOP lacks that button.. I've known that for some time, of course, so, when blessed with more free time, on a day-to-day basis, I drop by each day to see what's new.

Recently, though, I'm lucky to check once a week. I know slop doesn't update very frequently... but when it does, it leaves me wondering if I missed a page--or trying to remember what happened on the previous page. (Being a bear of very little brain and all..)

I would like to see a 'previous' button implimented on the mail slop page--rightn ow, I think the only way to see what happened on the previous page is to go to the start of the relevant chapter and skip forward, page by page.

If not that, then what about a small news box, for posting things like "new comic up" or "new filler art" or such... with a date, of course..

The easiest way I've seen to do that is to get a livejournal/LJ community and embed the page in a frame below the comic it's self. (an example of this can be seen at http://www.vincifruit.com/ )

take care and best wishes to all.

First of all...
Thank you for watching and taking time to comment.
Second, if you look above the latest page, you see how many pages of a story, and what page this one is.
In this case, it is "1 of 1'.
So there has been only one page posted of this story at this time.
When there are more pages, there will be a previous button.
There is also a 'pull down' below the page that you can go back to the beginning of a story.
But then you have to click through all the pages to get to the last one.
As of this writing there is no way to drop into the middle of a completed story.
Thanks again...

Your Editor-in-Beef
Ramseys

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I think I need to make the previous button active at all times. You're not the first person to mention it, Colby. But for now, there is a little hack to jump way ahead in a story...

Here's page 2 of a story...

http://www.rustedtusks.com/slop/index.p ... 8&p=2&nc=1

here's page 3...

http://www.rustedtusks.com/slop/index.p ... 8&p=3&nc=1

The letters in the above URL have a meaning
v=Volume number. We're still in Volume 1.
i=Issue number. We're currently in issue 5.
f=feature. Some issues have only 1 story. Others have multiple stories, like issue 3.
p=page number. So if you want to cheat and just jump to page 12 in a story, change the "p=" part of the url to be the page you want.

I'll see about making Previous able to move backwards from one Issue to the next though.

One of the more clever tricks I've seen in an online comic was having the mouse active on the art work. left click jump forward, shift-left click move backward.

Their artwork sucks, but they did get points for pandering to my lazy nature.

Uncle.

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Hey Thanks!
Even a software challenged Mac person like me can handle that. Saves clicking "Next" 22 times to get to where I was.

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