Hosting Follow-up: Smack Jeeves

This site has certainly gained from the Drunk Duck's Demise. Overall, it's a clean and simple design, very similar to Drunk Duck's.

The pages are of the identical template variety (or non-variety in this case). There is a separate home page for each comic, though I can't decide if that's good or bad. On one side, it keeps general news separate from the author's comments and prevents it from being lost when a new comics is posted. On the other, it seems kind of superfluous, and someone (like me) who bookmarks the latest comic's page won't see it. There are no sub-pages, no lists of characters, and no links.

The default design is supposedly modifiable, though I've yet to see any comic which does so (and for quite good reasons, the guide to modifying those templates requires a good portion of programming knowledge). I suppose you can't find fault there, HTML with CSS isn't the most behaved language (and the default template is a nice, airy design).

URLs are simple enough: abcxyz.smackjeeves.com, using /comics for the latest and the archives. Like Drunk Duck, a mysterious number is used to label each (I wonder what's the difficulty in using an 8-digit date-stamp, I suppose I'll learn once my server-side programming skills improve).

Nothing is outstanding, nor is there any critical failing. The site is not that old yet, we'll just have to see how things progress. I expect the service will be refined (as all services are).

(EDIT) I have found one annoyance. Any comic that has questionable content gets a javascript pop-up and requires a cookie to be set to access it.