Featured: Wondermark
Featured Site: Wondermark
ComicPress Version: 2.5
Modifications: Painful (I still love you Malki)
The new Wondermark site was a long time coming and I think David has done a really nice job in creating his vision of a feature rich comic site with an attractive style that compliments the comic. I know firsthand, as this is another site I got to assist in developing.
One unique feature of the site is the comic’s custom alt/title properties, as used by some comics sites as a sort of easter egg treat, when you hover the comic image you get an extra little message or gag. This was done with the use of a WordPress custom field, the field is inserted into the img tag on both the site and the RSS feed.
Rather than choosing between above, below or both, David opted for putting the navigation button links beside the comic. Instead of using the WP comment system, there is a link to comment in the forum, along with a social share button (designed to go with the site). Rather than the title linking to the permalink for the current comic, the permalink is just printed below the title. The reason being that the permalink versions of the comic are identical to the index page comic, as in there are no comments and instead the main page blog appears, so you see the current blog from any page in the archive in the center column. The left column uses a separate category to post bulletins. In the right category you will see blog categories, all blog posts still use the blog category, but by using tags, they can all be organized and here you find a list of those tags.
You can search both the site for text, as well as comic dialogue through the use of ohnorobot.com. Also if you click an image in the blog you will notice the Fancy Zoom action, there are other effects like this too, Lightbox and Thickbox to name a couple popular ones. It makes for a slick way to zoom blog images without loading a new page. A lot of these JavaScript effects are adapted to WordPress plugins for ease of setup and use. They can be found at the WordPress plugin repository under images.
I believe that covers most everything, other than one special content display feature that is not being put to use yet, I believe it will debut some time in the new year. 
November 5th, 2008 at 7:33 am
Love the site, one quick question, how did you get the comic number with the title? Is that manually added in or done automatically?? I’d love the code if it is. Thanks!