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- Tophat_John
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Hi, this is John here and me and my friend, Maria, are starting a webcomic together coming soon, she is the drawer and I am the writer.
TWO THINGS:
A. We were wondering if anyone here knows of any good webcomic hosting sites for us to creating our website on for the comic.
B. If the website requires code of some sort to create the page could somebody here help us with that.
PLEASE AND THANK YOU!
We could really use your help.
TWO THINGS:
A. We were wondering if anyone here knows of any good webcomic hosting sites for us to creating our website on for the comic.
B. If the website requires code of some sort to create the page could somebody here help us with that.
PLEASE AND THANK YOU!
We could really use your help.
- Bocaj Claw
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There's comicgenesis and there's comicpress. Off the top of my head.
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- Steve the Pocket
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Drunk Duck is a ComicGenesis-style site for webcomics. PorpleMontage hosts both comics and Flash cartoons and has a relatively small but active community around it. They don't have their own built-in archive system, but they allow direct FTP access so you might be able to install one yourself.
As far as generic free hosts go, FreeHostia is one; they provide up to 250MB of space, 5GB of bandwidth per month (a pretty good amount), PHP and limited MySQL space (important if you want to install an archive system), and best of all: no mandatory ads or namedropping. If you buy a top-level domain (of the form thisisarealwebsite.not) and attach it, people won't be able to tell it from a paid host.
I would talk to Dandy and Company's webmaster Jesstech if you want to know more; I believe that site uses ComicPress.
As far as generic free hosts go, FreeHostia is one; they provide up to 250MB of space, 5GB of bandwidth per month (a pretty good amount), PHP and limited MySQL space (important if you want to install an archive system), and best of all: no mandatory ads or namedropping. If you buy a top-level domain (of the form thisisarealwebsite.not) and attach it, people won't be able to tell it from a paid host.
The aforementioned ComicPress, if installed on a host that has PHP and MySQL available, will take care of all that for you, directly from an web-based admin panel. I haven't used it, but it looks like it offers layout customization too, so you don't have to wind up with a generic-looking site.Anybody here know HTML, etc.?
I would talk to Dandy and Company's webmaster Jesstech if you want to know more; I believe that site uses ComicPress.
I'm surprised I got to see this mentioned. We used Freehostia for a MySQL class so we wouldn't have to configure it at home to be able to work at home. It was running extremely slow the night we had to present our group projects.As far as generic free hosts go, FreeHostia is one; they provide up to 250MB of space, 5GB of bandwidth per month (a pretty good amount), PHP and limited MySQL space (important if you want to install an archive system), and best of all: no mandatory ads or namedropping. If you buy a top-level domain (of the form thisisarealwebsite.not) and attach it, people won't be able to tell it from a paid host.
There's no real reason anybody shouldn't be able to learn basic HTML. For a simple webcomic you barely need to know any tags. HTML Goodies is where I learned.Anybody here know HTML, etc.?
Granted if you did plain HTML and nothing else you'd have to manually update everything, but it is simple and with a webcomic you'd just be updating a few links on a regular basis.
A friend of mine uses Wordpress with Comicpress
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Well that's just lazy. MySQL-PHP-Apache is a single installer on Windows, and sudo apt-get install mysql php5 apache2 phpmyadmin on Linux.We used Freehostia for a MySQL class so we wouldn't have to configure it at home to be able to work at home.
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- Steve the Pocket
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Says you. I never managed to get it working on my Windows computer, and Ubuntu's package manager wasn't able to acquire it for some bizarre reason.Well that's just lazy.We used Freehostia for a MySQL class so we wouldn't have to configure it at home to be able to work at home.
Things like this make me suspect I'm a reverse technomancer by birth.
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