Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
ComicGallery was originally created for a subscription based webcomic site I worked on in 2004. I’m making it available under the GNU General Public License, which means it’s free software and you can use it on your own site.
This script will automatically create a gallery from a directory of images that you specify. It’s easy to add to existing webpages, and easy to modify the configuration of the script to produce a variety of gallery styles suitable for webcomics as well as other types of artwork.
Other scripts for creating more complex types of galleries exist, but they often take longer to setup, administer, and integrate into your site. This script can be included on your page with a single line of code, and uses minimal, standards based markup (XHTML) that can be easily styled with CSS to match the rest of your website.
Optional features include:
- Start with the first or last image in the directory
- Display navigation above or below images
- Back and Next links
- Back and Next arrows
- Direct links to each image
- Configurable number of links per line
- Customizable dividers between links
- Display the copyright owner
- Display a link to your Creative Commons License
Download
ComicGallery v1.0
The default settings for the script will create a gallery from files in an “images” subdirectory. You can easily change this and other script settings to suit your needs.
Let me know if you end up using the script on your site, and feel free to suggest any improvements.
Update
Comic Gallery Tutorial including an example PHP webpage, CSS file, supporting images for the CSS, and a directory with 10 sample comic images.
Comic Gallery version 1.1 is now available.
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Friday, January 21st, 2005
It’s with some reluctance that I’ve decided to part ways with Logan DeAngelis and his two companies: PV Comics and comiXpress. I’ll no longer be maintaining either of those websites, or be involved in running the businesses. I put a lot of effort into both companies last year, and I think they’ve been reasonably successful. This year I’ve decided not to spend as much time on business strategy and management for other people’s companies, when I could be putting that effort into something of my own. While we had a few differences in opinion on how PV Comics and particularly comiXpress were being managed, Logan and I are still parting on good terms. He’s a great guy, and I wish him all the best.
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Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
I was recently interviewed by Ryan McLelland for his Comic Book Maker column at Newsarama. As someone who had never published a comic before, he wanted to know more about comiXpress, the print-on-demand comic publishing company I’m involved with. Since launching in June, comiXpress has been doing really well, and we now have 64 different titles in our catalog. Ryan plans to post more from our conversation later this week on his blog.
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Friday, July 16th, 2004
ComiXpress is a new service for independent comix artists that will print books with no minimum orders, act as their online store, then fulfill the order so that all the artist needs to worry about is creating their comix and being notified of their sales.
From low-quantity, high-quality printing to distribution and sales through the online store, Comixpress is designed to be the answer to costly, high-quantity print runs and the hassles of distribution and warehousing.
ComiXpress allows creators the opportunity to print their comics in quantities as low as one single issue for incredibly low prices (You can literally get the ball rolling for just over $10!).
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Monday, January 5th, 2004
PV Comics offers hundreds of pages of free comics from some very talented artists. Subscribers get access to even more content, including new episodes of Nate Piekos’ Lint McCree Mysteries and Logan DeAngelis’ KU-2. A few months ago I was asked to join the team and work on the website. Just like Dead Ends, PV Comics makes use of some of the new CSS techniques I’ve been working on recently.
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Friday, December 12th, 2003
CSS Design: Night of the Image Map is now featured at A List Apart. CSS design from beyond the grave: all the secret ingredients you’ll need to resurrect the image map using CSS and structurally sensible XHTML. This is the new technique I used on the website for Dead Ends, Massachusetts, and the upcomming PV Comics
Tags: design, designmeme, spooky, tutorial
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