Comments on: Webhosting for your Webcomic

By: wingie

wingie — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 17:51:37 +0000

Ah, awesomeness. I wasn’t aware that the extension exists. (But then again it’s silliness on my part for not remembering that extensions exist for everything…) Forget my comment, then. =)

By: Stuart

Stuart — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:43:09 +0000

One of the templates I’m offering to help install is comicpress which has comic navigation built into it. You could also pick up my Comic Gallery script—which I built for a webcomics site and is very easy to install. Try a google search for “powered by comicgallery” to see some of the sites using it already. That script is free to download—but you do need PHP, which is part of the Dreamhost package. I honestly think that $7.95 a month is a great deal for webhosting—especially with all the things they’re offering (PHP, Ruby on Rails, free Domain Registration). Basically, if you need technical help the commission from Dreamhost pays for me to give you a hand setting up your site. If you don’t need technical help, I’ve got a discount code that will make a good deal even better.

By: wingie

wingie — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 07:08:45 +0000

How is this useful for comic sites? Okay, let me rephrase that: how is setting up WordPress for a comic website a useful incentive for a comic artist to sign up for DreamHost, where you get a commission from for each person who takes your offer? While WordPress is a brilliant piece of software, it’s both very easy to set up and also not remotely useful as a webcomic interface, as it lacks the comic navigation and automatic update functions. However, if the script was a comics script (perhaps with an attached news updater), which do exist in the free script world but are usually hacked up by various people quickly and are harder to install, then it’d make sense. After all, your offer seems to be a special webcomics thing.