Webhosting for your Webcomic
by Stuart Robertson on January 1st, 2006 | Uncategorized
Here’s a special New Year’s offer I’m making to webcomic artists. If your New Year’s resolution was to setup your own website for your comic, I’d like to help you get started.
Sign up for any new 1 or 2 year hosting package with Dreamhost and I’ll help by setting up your blog for you! Wordpress, the most popular optional plugins, and one of 3 great starting templates. If you think it wouldn’t be too hard to setup Worpress on your own… you’d be right! If you don’t need any technical help, you can use the promotional code ‘WEBCOMIC’ when you sign up with Dreamhost and get an extra $15 off. More details are available on the Webhosting page .
I moved DesignMeme to Dreamhost in late November when I saw the prices starting at $7.95 a month. I was a bit surprised at how inexpensive that was compared to what I remembered from a few years ago. Since moving the site my Adsense earnings have really improved and now more than cover my hosting costs! Moving the site is something I should have done a long time ago, and if you’re considering making the move in 2006—I encourage you to go for it.
Stuart Robertson
wingie on January 2, 2006 at 2:08 am
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.
Stuart on January 2, 2006 at 8:43 am
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.
wingie on January 2, 2006 at 12:51 pm
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. =)
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