DailyInk, which in many respects is the coolest, not to mention the bluest, of the three major websites which collect syndicated comic strips, has undergone a redesign. While my main peeve with the page remains, there are undeniable improvements.

First, the peeve, and it may be my own incompetence. If you’re scrolling down your self-picked “My DailyInk” menu of strips, and you alight on a strip you’ve missed a bunch of days of, it seems that you have to leave the My DailyInk page to land on the strip’s own archives page. Then you have to go back to My DailyInk and scroll all the way down to where you left off. A minor quibble, consideting the joy of having so many comics close at hand. But one of DailyInk’s competitors has solved this dilemma, letting you access previous days’ strips right from your main page.

Like I say, maybe I’m just doing it wrong. DailyInk remains my favorite of the syndicated comics providers, largely due to its mix of classics, new strips and decades-old reprints. It’s given me respect for serials like Rip Kirby which I couldn’t fathom when I was young. It doesn’t have everything—I must go elsewhere (GoComics.com) for personal faves such as The Norm, The Doozies or Drabble—but DailyInk has plenty. And its design, old or new, is immensely appealing—more sober than GoComics or comics.com, less overtly childlike. It takes its comics as seriously as I do.