Pagination 101
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This means that you can read the page, click 'next', and not have to move the mouse in order to progress onwards. Also annoying in slide decks and image slideshows.
It's not always possible to place pagination links at the same location if the webcomic has images of different sizes, but I have yet to see a physical keyboard that moves around depending on what's on the screen.
You'd also have to come up with a solution that works on devices that don't necessarily have a keyboard available at all times (on iOS, for instance).
Instead of making the following change like the author suggests:
prev first [numbered links] last next
first prev [numbered links] next last
prev 1 ... 56 57 58 [58] 60 61 62 ... 120 next
1. You avoid showing disabled "first" or "last" link when you're at the first or last page.
2. The numbered link to the last page also show you the total page count.
3. It's more likely that people will want to click the "next" link than the "last" link.
4. It's more likely that people will want to navigate from page 2 back to page 1 via the browser's back button than clicking on a "first" link.
In other words, the layout should be like this:
Previous Next 1 2 3 4 . . . Previous Next
Another good form of redundancy is to put all controls at the top of the page and all controls at the bottom. The top of the page is really good for keeping things in exactly the same place on every page, yet the bottom is often where people are after they're done reading.
funny to see omgpop's old description.
Sadly it's not a default on the very common Wordpress+Comicpress combo. Well it wasn't for a while, I just checked and there's a switch for it in my installation but I can't remember if it defaulted to on or off.
Just add text links for previous, next, last and first and you're set.