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Tuesday
Sep242013

Character Tags in Comic Easel

Since switching to Comic Easel, I've become a big fan of character tags. Using character tags, I can give readers more information about the characters that appear in a specific update. You can see it in action below.

 

When the user hovers the cursor over the headshot, they get a brief intro to the character.

And clicking the headshot takes the user to an archive thumbnail page containing all of the tagged appearances of that charater.

Here's how to set it up in Comic Easel. I'm assuming that the updated version of ComicsPress has a similar functionality.

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