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nEmoGrinder:
you've gotten past the masses.  you've decided to devote your life to a webcomic.  but this isnt like all the other times you've committed yourself to.  this isnt like that flash comic that consisted of a bouncing ball and random distorted tweening.  this time your serious...but...now what?

ok, thats my funny intro (who HASN'T tried to start a flash cartoon series?)  anyways...

so I have 6 comics under my belt, draw, coloured, speech'd and people actually think they're pretty damn funny.  whats next... OH SHIT I NEED A WEBSITE TO HOST THEM!  lol, ya I don't even have a credit card, I know thats a first.  basically this post contains 2 questions geared towards accomplished comic authors

I know good ol' JJ hosts through a freind but who are the rest of you hosting with?  I was thinking of going with dh2...4 dollars a months with tons of transfer bandwidth and storage.  I really can't complain.  all their reviews have been great.  any other website hosters that you guys adore?

part two...I got my hands on a copy of frontpage to start maknig my website and my first reaction was WTF!?!?  people told me to use dreamweaver...it's adobe so it must be great, so I got that instead...but I'm still wtf!!  I know that I can easily look on tutorial pages for help but do you guys have any specific pointers as far as layouts or tricks specific to web comics?  theres one thing I REALLY want to know that most web comics use

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=567

this is the way most comics archive stuff....its like frames...but not.  everything stays the same except for the comic.  I understand that a php is some sort of script but how do I go about creating one?

OR should I just give up and get a webmaster for me site and I'll just stick to drawing?

nEmo

grrraham:
comicgenesis.com
drunkduck.com

I mean, unless you're too good to share a host with webcomics like Pokemon Guardians.
If that's not a problem-- hey! they're free!
And set up with webcomics in mind.
Which means you don't need to worry about those complicated phps.

saturnine1979:
I know it's cheap and kind of lame(?) but you could always just start with a livejournal account.

BUT if you can get yourself a host (which isn't hard at all... there's tons of em out there. I have heard www.dreamhost.com reccommended.) then finding a prewritten PHP script is pretty easy. I wish I could give you a link for that, too, as I've found some before that I was gonna use, but I can not find the link! But I'm sure if you do a small amount of Google snooping you can find it. Of course, you still have to figure out how to implement that PHP script, which I can be of no help with, but, um, maybe you have some friends? Haha.

Good luck with your comic all the same!

nEmoGrinder:
hmm, I'll have to look into those hosting sites.  although I LOVE the thought of free web comic hosting (I'm a cheap cheap bastard) I know for a fact that having your own domain makes a comic all the more professional and easier to find on the web.  going through my list of comics I read on a regular basis, they all have their own domains which makes them easy to check up on when I'm bored and what not.

4 bucks a month of more than enough storage, 30 web accounts and bandwidth is reasonable in my opinion.

yes I will have to pick my friends' brain.  I have a computer science friend that probably knows more than I'll ever need to use.  and then there are people I know who do pure html as a hobby because....they think coding is fun?  I dunno.  I'll look into those domains though, thanks for the suggestion.

mrtuesday42:
hey! well i did things the OTHER WAY around...website first comic second...im crazy that way...i probably did things the hard ass way too cuz i didnt know bout drunkduck and that other one...
freewebs.com accound+free domiain .co.nr account=www.standardparadox.co.nr coded using dreamweaver which i taught myself in a weekend...so yeah that hard for sure...but the first comic is up so its all good...good luck hosting! careful tho cuz they will make you sign up for free then you have to pay for hosting...grrness.

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