It’s been a rather busy weekend testing and taking live many hacks and changes to Wonkie. It’s all live and nothing seems to have broken (yet!) – hopefully it stays that way.

New features include:

• Three featured cartoon strips:- The Whole Truth (international news and commentary); Bollywood Nights (Bollywood celebrity news and gossip); and Viva South Africa (South African news, commentary, and observations) – These can all be accessed from the main menu bar under the logo
• Structured archives by cartoon strip, date, and cartoon tags (see the left sidebar options for these – e.g. if you want to see all cartoons with Paris Hilton in them click on her name in the Tag Cloud section)
• Wonkie updated to enable posting more than 1 cartoon per day (for days when I’m particularly jobless or just feel like wabbing)
• General colour-scheme, modified page layouts and advertising integration

Next on the list is an email subscription feature that will either email out the latest cartoon once it’s uploaded or send you a link to any new cartoon additions to the site. Let me know if you think there is something else useful I should add too – it would be great to hear your comments!

I have to say the US presidential campaign is a great source for comic humour – who’d have thought! Ahh – but look at Bush I hear you say.. I guess that should have given some indication of the amount of humorous content you can create.. wonder if they would be any potential to produce a graphic comic novel just capturing his numerous faux pas over his tenure!

Anyway, the site seems to be working well – did something daft yesterday and made it disappear off the planet for a few hours. The cost of finally managing to install Apache server on a USB stick. Some cartoons are quite region specific so am thinking I may have to create more categories or at least have a different way of presenting them on the site – perhaps just using tags and categories rather than comic press. Anyway, thoughts and challenges for another day.. back to writing up press releases now for the real deal!