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Primate:
Sounds like you have a solid starting point, with both characters and setting. Be aware that you'll be working in an already well established genre in webcomics (peer group social interactions, although most are college or townie rather than high school). The upside is that there's already an established audience on the web for such fare. The downside is that you're work will be immediately be comparable to all the other strips in the genre. Tracking a whole year should be interesting, since most strips tend to be frozen in time, ultimately limiting how much the characters can grow.

Don't worry that you don't know every single in and out of how your story will go. There's a school of thought even among novels that the end should be a mystery to author until they near the end. Even if you decide on an ending now, you'll discover a lot of details that grow into the story as you write it.

(In case you're curious, the other genres commonly found in webcomics are video games, fantasty, and Doonesbury rip-offs. I'm the last two.)

meganjo23:
So, hey, update time!

I decided that I was definetly running with the webcomic idea for my senior project. I have the website (sort of) and I have an artist, but I'm still having some issues.

My question right now is, does anyone know how to get an image on the webpage built by Angelfire Webshell? Cause I've been messing with the whole thing for a while now, and all I've learned is that I can honestly say that I have no clue what I'm doing. If anyone can give my any help, it would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT- holy crap, I figured it out. I feel so stupid now, all I had to do was change the format of the file.

Anywho, anyone that want's to see the first panel of the first comic can go to http://www.angelfire.com/comics2/lowschool/c1-draft.pdd. Not much to look at atm, but as time goes on I'll get the whole thing up there for you people to see.

DOUBLE EDIT- yeah, now i feel even dumber. can anyone give me fun linking advise? that would be awsome.

Primate:
Two comments on linking. If you're going to put the link at the end of a sentence, don't put the period at the end, as some programs try to include the period in the web address. The link as written tries to pull up a file called "c1-draft.pdd." which doesn't seem to exist. I removed that final period to check "c1-draft.pdd" but that wasn't there either.

So then I tried it without the filename.
http://www.angelfire.com/comics2/lowschool/
Without a file name at the end, most hosts try to deliver the default file of index.html or some varient on that name (my own website delivers index.php). In your case, it brought up what looks like the main page for Lowschool.

I also tracked down your first panel without the rest of the page at
ww w.angelfire.com/comics2/lowschool/panel1.jpg
but Angelfire blocks direct linking to the image. Oddly enough, if you cut and paste the address into your browser, it comes up fine. Interesting. [Edit: I inserted a space into the w's bit, cause the board kept making it into a link, and I don't see a point in making a link that doesn't go anywhere]

Hope that helps.

Oh, and the art looks fine. It lacks the spit and polish of manual or computer inking, or the more developed style of Piro's pencils for Megatokyo, but the drawing indicates more talent than what fuels the art on my comic. Can't comment the writing though. 'ZZZ...' just doesn't give me enough to work with. ;)

meganjo23:
Yeah, I fixed the link thing. That was tricky, but i just had to keep messing with it until i fixed it.

And any comment on art should go to SarcasticStare, as he's the one drawing it. That reminds me, I need to start harping on him, cause he's only got two panels done on the first comic, and this is due friday.

As for the text, I get how to download fonts from the internet and all, but how do i get it to work in actual programs? I'm having issues with that, and for now I'm using Bradley Hand. As for the actual words and stuff, the only thing that I'm worried about is having it sound to unnatural, but I think that will work itself out as I do the rest of the comic.

Sideways:

--- Quote from: meganjo23 ---The actual drawing of the comic is no problem, as I have a very good friend who has agreed to be payed for drawing them. I can scan them in, and then with a mix of MS Paint[/b] and a photoshop, get them web ready.

As for the web page... that will be the main problem. I have no clue how to do that, and Primate's wonderful explaination, while it did help some, made my poor mind so confused. I wonder, if i go with Keenspace, do I have to mess with all that stuff? I'm not trying to take the easy way out, it would just be nice to have an escape route.

If anyone's interested in hearing my idea for the actual comic, then tell me, and I'll share for some nice constructive criticism.
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NO MS PAINT!!!!!

It is evil.

Photoshop only!!

As for your webpage, see if you can get a hold of a good webpage publishing program.  I can't think of one, by name, but I know that they exist.  My brother made a webpage to show pics of him, his wife, and his kids using some program published by Adobe.

If you ever want tips for Photoshop, this forum is a good place to start.

For the webpage, surf around, look for some webpage publishing software, check Adobe's site out, and maybe find a forum specifically for html / java / etc coding/programming.

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