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Everything I've wanted to know about webcomics (but was too afraid to ask)

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Gurkburk:
You want your comic to be like good crack, where people come back the very next day wanting more.

Not to be confused with bad crack, where people die choking on their own vomit.

Norton Quintessential:
OK, I'm working simultaneously on bolstering a cache of material and creating a website to house it.

Does anyone know how I can add a forum to my website? Everything I've looked at is horribly confusing.

EDIT: So I've been struggling with Dreamweaver for weeks now, and I'm about ready to say fuck it. Do you think running my webcomic out of a blog would be a viable option, like Kate Beaton did with hers for a long time?

JD:
LiveJournal is a viable solution.  yuko (of johnny wander fame) has done it for a while. It'd the only LJ I check regularly.

bicostp:
Yes, running it out of a blog would work, especially if you use WordPress with the ComicPress add-on. You could also use a standalone system like ComicCMS or Walrus if you feel ambitious.

But if you don't want to deal with all that, or don't have your own hosting, you can always throw it on a free comic host like ComicGenesis. This might be the way to go, since you'll get listed in their directory (for more exposure). The only drawback is you wind up competing with 1,895,213 other people in the same position, so (as Yahtzee said) it's like throwing a message in a bottle off your desert island into an ocean made entirely of messages in bottles.

http://www.comicgenesis.com/

Norton Quintessential:
To everyone: thank you very much! You've all been really helpful.

Bicostp: my idea was to host it on Blogger or something, post comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and then do miscellaneous writings on Tuesday and Thursday, with no major alterations to the blogging script.

Also, one final question: I've got a domain already purchased from when I planned to do a huge, custom lay-out thing. How can I make my domain redirect to my blog?

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