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Trying to start a webcomic
« on: April 20, 2011, 08:42:56 pm »
I'm trying to start a webcomic. I've got a name (Frameless Comic) and all the other comic bits, I'm just missing the web part. Any advice or help on anything at all, anyone?
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 09:01:47 pm »
I'm trying to start a webcomic. I've got a name (Frameless Comic) and all the other comic bits, I'm just missing the web part. Any advice or help on anything at all, anyone?
What kind of help do you need? (HTML programming, setting up a website, JS programming, etc)
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 09:04:10 pm »
Just a simple webcomic interface wouldn't be too hard, you could do something like what I made for a webcomic me and my friend might do at some point eventually:
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<?php
    $current 
3;
    
$pagenumber $_GET[&#39;p&#39;];
    
$navnumber $_GET[&#39;n&#39;];
    
$imagesrc "";
    if (
$pagenumber) {
$imagesrc "img/$pagenumber.jpg";
$page $pagenumber;
    } else {
$imagesrc "img/$current.jpg";
$page $current;
    }
    if (!
$navnumber) {
$navnumber 1;
    }
?>

<?php
    $current 
3;
    
$pagenumber $_GET[&#39;p&#39;];
    
$navnumber $_GET[&#39;n&#39;];
    
$imagesrc "";
    if (
$pagenumber) {
$imagesrc "img/$pagenumber.jpg";
$page $pagenumber;
    } else {
$imagesrc "img/$current.jpg";
$page $current;
    }
    if (!
$navnumber) {
$navnumber 1;
    }
?>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
    <head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<style type="text/css">
    body {background-image: url("wutbg.png");}
    table {background-color: #163232;}
    p.title {font-size: 40px; font-weight: bold;}
    p.normal {font-size: 20px;}
    p.navbar {font-size: 20px;}
    p.copyright {font-size: 15px;}
    p.tags {font-size: 0px;}
</style>
        <title>¿ʇnʍ Comics</title>
    </head>
    <body>

<table border="0" width="1000" align="center">
    <tr align="center">
<td>
    <table border="0">
<tr>
    <td rowspan="2" width="10%">
<p class="navbar"><a href="?">Home</a></p>
<p class="navbar"><a href="?n=2">About Us</a></p>

    </td>
    <td width="85%">
<p class="title">¿ʇnʍ Comics</p>
<p class="normal">A webcomic of inanity, overmemeage, and non-consummation</p>
<hr>
    </td>
</tr>
<tr align="center">

    <td width="85%">
<?php if($navnumber == 1) { ?>
    <img alt="<?php echo $page?>" width="60%" align="center" src="<?php echo $imagesrc?>">
<?php ?>
<?php if($navnumber == 2) { ?>
    <p class="normal">
Ricky Talbot - (Description)
    </p>

    <p class="normal">
Issac Ross - (Description)
    </p>
<?php ?>
    </td>
</tr>
    </table>
</td>
    </tr>

    <?php if($navnumber == 1) { ?>
<tr>
    <td>
<table border="0" width="100%">
    <tr align="center">
<td width="50%" align="left">
    <a href="?p=1"><img alt="First" src="first.png"></a>
    <a href="?p=<?php echo ($page != 1) ? $page $page?>"><img alt="Previous" src="prev.png"></a>
</td>

<td width="50%" align="right">
    <a href="?p=<?php echo ($page != $current) ? $page $page?>"><img alt="Next" src="next.png"></a>
    <a href="?"><img alt="Last" src="last.png"></a>
</td>
    </tr>
</table>
    </td>
</tr>
    <?php ?>

    <tr align="center">
<td width="100%">
    <p class="copyright">©2011 Unreal Phantasies (Ricky Talbot and Issac Ross)</p>
    <p class="copyright">Site design by Ricky Talbot; Brain aneurysms by Issac </p>
</td>
    </tr

</table>
    </body>
</html>

This would assume each one is simply (number).jpg, and it has 2 pages, a home page and an about us page.  For a host, if you want a fre host, I've been using x10 for a while and I love it. =D
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 09:04:37 pm »
A good host, domain name suggestions, Features I should include on the site, a good size/format for the images, etc.
Edit: Ak! That's a lot of code. And I understand none of it. Is anyone willing to help me with code?
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 09:05:29 pm »
Well, you can look at others webcomics for inspiration, such as xkcd.

I think there's a Wordpress plugin for webcomics.

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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2011, 09:10:08 pm »
I have no idea what that means. (Not the xkcd part, the other part)
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2011, 09:12:59 pm »
(People posting right after makes edits not work :P) Anyways, like I said above X10Hosting is pretty good, and since frameless.com is already taken, if you're shooting for a .com, I would just keep it simple and go with framelesscomic.com.
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2011, 09:20:03 pm »
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A good host
http://www.heliohost.org/ has worked well for me.

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domain name suggestions
Would you purchase a domain name or just use .tk or .co.cc?

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Features I should include on the site, a good size/format for the images, etc.
I don't have any suggestions for features other then a full-text search. Image size would be best if kept under 1024x512 or 800x256.

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Edit: Ak! That's a lot of code. And I understand none of it. Is anyone willing to help me with code?
Sorry no, as most of my programming experience is with somewhat complex algorithms (very boring stuff) in C or C# and I am still learning JS/HTML/PHP.
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2011, 09:21:31 pm »
I could help you customize that code to work for your site if you want.  It's a pretty generic setup =D
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2011, 09:27:01 pm »
That'd be awesome cooliojazz! I don't need nor particularly care about purchasing a domain name, so I'm fine with free. The url's probably gonna be framelesscomic.tk then. Two letters are cool.
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2011, 09:30:45 pm »
You'd probably just need to get on irc or something so we could discus it.  Btw, you haven't really answered other people's questions so they can help you =P
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2011, 09:32:19 pm »
What questions have I missed?
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2011, 09:36:02 pm »
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domain name suggestions
Would you purchase a domain name or just use .tk or .co.cc?
and possibly the implied question here of if you want a free host or not
This would assume each one is simply (number).jpg, and it has 2 pages, a home page and an about us page.  For a host, if you want a free host, I've been using x10 for a while and I love it. =D
Okay, really, I thouthg there was more or I wouldn't have brought it up, sorry =\
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2011, 09:50:28 pm »
Uhhhh....
That'd be awesome cooliojazz! I don't need nor particularly care about purchasing a domain name, so I'm fine with free. The url's probably gonna be framelesscomic.tk then. Two letters are cool.
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Re: Trying to start a webcomic
« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2011, 09:57:14 pm »
Cooliojazz watches his incompetency level slowly rise... Yeah, doubly sorry now. X.x I'd love to help you though... =)
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