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What do you guys think? I think it looks a little better.

And for those who wondered why, I'm finally back after an unexpected two weeks off.

It looks good, but i have a few qualms.

The background is 150+KB. That's big for dialup folks, and you should be able to get that way down without any loss in quality, since it's mostly flat greys. Your comics too seem a little heavy, the latest at 200+KB. You might want to work on your navigation buttons too. While they are ok filesize-wise, they look rather aliased. (They're a little too close together for me too.)

The thing that strikes me most is that your site isn't wholly visually cohesive. The green colors you use in your banners aren't used anywhere else, the blue background is only used once, they grey is singular, etc. The green links don't strike me as particularly easy to read, and the visited links are a vastly different color. That, and you might want to choose a san-serif as a font for your text since you use it everywhere else.

It's a personal preference, but you might want to put the banners on some sort of a support or "link me please!" page. They seem sort of out of place.

The good thing is that you don't have any real usability issues, and most of the stuff i pointed out are really polish things that shouldn't take hardly any time to fix. Your site as it stands is good, and doesn't really have any enormous problems.

Dail-up? Oh yeah, now I remember. (sorry, I got spoiled)

Is there a simple way to make the file size on my comics smaller? I typically convert them from bmp to png and size them down. When I finish them in AI they are usually twice as big.

The save for web option. By turning the number of colors down you can vastly reduce png filesize for a pretty minimal hit to quality. For even more, you can use a png optimiser like optipng, which gets between a 10% and 30% reduction most of the time for me.