Tags are Live, and a New Server

After getting home from Texas Saturday evening and despite still having a bit of a cold, I managed to get all the code merged and deployed for the comic tags. New and recent comics will have a set of tags displayed below them, listing the characters and themes in each comic. Clicking on one of the tags will take you to a page showing all comics with that tag. So if Business Frog is your favorite, you can easily find all the comics with him in them, for example.

Unfortunately this means I have to go back through over 250 comics and tag them all. That process might take me a few days, so you won't find tags on the older comics right now. I'll get to them, though, don't worry.

In other news, I also added a dedicated database server to my set of virtual machines hosted by Digital Ocean. This takes a bit of load off the web server and the comics are actually more responsive now. If you're a regular visitor you might notice the speed improvement.

But now the most important thing - pictures of my daughter's stuffed frog from from the trip last week!

In the airport early Monday morning.

Coffee and a cheese danish in Texas.

Just hanging out in the hotel.

Watch out for falling ice!

I had a cold, so Froggy gave me some medicine.

The view at night from our hotel.

Taking a walk in Prairie Creek Park.

A nice pedestrian bridge over Prairie Creek.

Enjoying some pizza the night before we left.

Long layover in Detroit, but they have a cool glowing tunnel.

If you've made it this far, why not click the link below and read today's comic?

Amphibian.com comic for 14 March 2016

Searching my Comic Archive

I have so many comics now (252) that finding one in the archive is getting hard, even for me. And what if you want to find all the comics that have Science Frog, or Pirate Frog? It's not easy. How many comics have embedded games? Who knows?!?

To correct this problem, I've decided to add tags to all the comics. Whenever I make a new one, I'll tag it with the characters, the theme, a special feature, or whatever else makes sense. You'll be able to see these tags at the bottom of the comic. Like all tags these days, they'll have # in front of the word. Clicking on one of the tags will take you to the archive page, filtered to just show the comics with that tag.

A test page showing my new comic #tags

I'll also be able to put a filter link directly on the Archive page, so you can find comics that contain a search term or have a common tag such as "#game" or something. These are exciting times for frog comic lovers everywhere.

Of course, these new features aren't available yet on the public version of Amphibian.com, but they will be soon. I'm still working out some things, but I'm also sitting in a hotel room in Dallas this week. I can never seem to be as productive when I'm away from home. You can still view today's comic without the tags at the bottom; just follow the link below.

Amphibian.com comic for 9 March 2016