Added 2 new A* pages:Got a lot of non-art A* stuff done over the weekend. For one thing, you can now follow A* right from the comfort of your Tumblr dashboard, because A* is on Tumblr! Or click this embiggified version of the button I squished into the social networking bar below the comic and ads:
I'm already have a lot of fun exploring and reblogging some great art posted by a few folks I've found to follow there so far. It's just nonstop stuff to stick in your eyeballs. 8o I also worked out how to communicate with PayPal's "Instant Payment Notification" system/protocol. I needed to figure that out as the first stage of selling my original A* art through the site, because since there's only one of each, I need to be able to have PayPal tell my site when one sells, so my site can take down the For Sale sign on it. I was a little worried about it because PayPal's back end stuff is sometimes kind of kludgy, and always poorly documented, but it turns out they actually have a (poorly documented) test site for having their system bounce simulated IPN messages off your script, so that was a huge help. And once I figured that out, I was able to make buying A* e-books and subscriptions a little snazzier: now when you buy an e-book, in addition to PayPal taking you--or sort of maybe trying to take you--to the download page in your browser, my site will automatically send you an email with the download page link in it, just in case; and when you buy a subscription, instead of having to wait a bit for me to activate it manually, it is now activated automatically! So that's fun.
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