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ElRodente:
i must have pointed this out a million times :D
http://www.keenspot.com/downloads/
autokeen lite is what you want, it's what keenspot use and it's free
Mollinda:
I use Walrus.
If you pop on over to Interact (linked in my sig) Migo is an expert on Walrus.
nEmoGrinder:
ok, I'm finally back to respond.
about halfway through this post I kind of get lost with all the names I don't recognize...but whatever!! lol
anyways, I've decided I can afford for a proper host, either dh2 or godaddy, both have very reasonable prices.
now back the the other half of this post...making the actual website....ya dreamweaver I looked and and I was all like..WTF?!? so I tried frontpage and I was all like...WTF?!?! and then i'm like,well I use adobe photoshop and illustrator for art and adobe audition for music and adobe acrobat for school so I might as well use adobe golive for making my webpage...the samples look great also! so I open instal it and I was like...WTF?!?
so I've officially given up on making a really wickedly nice looking webpage all by yself...and am now looknig for a webmaster...do you think this is a good idea? or is getting a webmaster more complicated in your opinion? I know a guy REALLY interested and helped me design what the site should look like...but hes got as much or less experience than me with working with websites. so this is what I was thinking:
find someone realyl good at golive/dreamweaver and get them to work with me to make a site that really looks wicked. then get them to teach myself and my buddy how to update/make small changes...nothing complicated. then we'll just take over from there as webmaster and author. my fear is that we'll mess it up and be constantly asking for help.
anyways, thats the plan. I just REALLY want to get something up soon because I'm going on ten comics completed already. I liek the idea of having a buffer between the current comic and the one I work on but more than ten is a little rediculous. expecially since I only plan on updating at most twice a week, at least until summer.
so any volunteers to help? lol, that or bug the kids in the computer science program
thanks for all the comments. I think this is part of web comic design that is often forgetten, since half of the people out there who want to start webcomics might be really good but have no experience with web sites. its a real pain.
andrew
grrraham:
look. designing a webcomic site is easy.
At the top of the page you have a title of some kind. something like this
http://questionablecontent.net/test/newlogo.jpg
it tells them the name of your comic I guess.
Below that you have your comic.
this is the point of your site.
below that you have navigation buttons leading to the other comics.
because hopefully you have more than one comic up (or will soon)
below that you have words. Whatever you feel like writing to your audience.
this isn't necessary, but many people like to have it because for whatever reason they can't say whatever they're trying to get across with the comic alone.
No one is going to go to your site for the sake of the site itself. They're reading your webcomic.
how about this. I'll be your webmaster. Here's your site, copy it into a textfile called index.html
--- Code: ---<html><body>
<img src="header.jpg">
<br><img src="comic.jpg">
<br><a href="01.html">FIRST</a> <a href="xx.html">PREVIOUS</a>
<br>Hey guys this is my comic isn't it great? I know the site sucks, some loser named graham made it for me, but that doesn't matter because HOLY SHIT is my comic ever good, eh? Oh, hey, there's some links at the bottom.
<br><a href="cast.html">CAST</a> <a href="about.html">ABOUT</a> <a href="links.html">LINKS</a> <a href="dolphins.html">THE DOLPHIN EMPORIUM</a>
</body></html>
--- End code ---
Luke:
DO NOT HOST ON DRUNKDUCK.COM.
I don't read anything hosted there because it's too damn slow.
Also, for designing a web page - do you live near a community college or anything? Sign up for a semester of web page design. You'll get a nice book and learn everything you need to know to get started. Then you can start searching for a webhost (if you don't feel like using something free like livejournal or something). I use ipowerweb.com, which is reasonably priced, but you can find other services (such as keenspot) that offer cheaper services (but still a unique domain name) at the cost of forced ads.
It's up to you. Most service providers give you a URL for a control panel where you can just go and start uploading your stuff - the whole webmaster thing is not hard at all.
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