Zip and Li’l Bit 2.0
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007I’ve discovered that the greatest feature of this re-designed site is one that no one will ever see, so I thought I’d mention it.
A little over a year ago I posted my first pages of The Upside-Down Me online. I had never done a webcomic, nor did I know anyone who had. I designed the site how I thought it should look and included the features I thought it needed, then asked a friend of mine to code it for me. We didn’t think about automating anything, so to update the site with new pages I would have to grab a file from my server, replace some code, then upload the file with the new images onto the server. This worked fine unless I wanted to go away for the weekend or had a late night out with my friends when I was supposed to be posting a new page, then it was awful.
That was then.
One of the best things that’s happened since I started Zip and Li’l Bit is that I’ve met a whole lot of people, so when putting the site together this time, I could rely on the experience of others. Thanks to the power of my man, Tyler Martin, and ComicPress my site is now automated, which means I can post the pages whenever I want to, put a time and date on it, and forget about it. That’s what I’ve done for this comic you’re reading now. When it posts, I will probably be sitting on the couch watching “House” or something. Ah, the benefits of freedom.
September 23rd, 2007 at 12:19 am
Post-dating for automatic publication is the #1 reason I started using Comicpress myself, so I know exactly where you’re coming from (well, technically, it’s why I started using “Wordpress”, but “Comicpress” ended up going hand-in-hand.)
There are other auto-posting scripts out there I’ve tried, but none work quite as easily as this one; especially if you want to blog separate from your comic on the same page (I have yet to even find one that allows that.) If I were Tyler, I’d charge for Comicpress, but, shh, I didn’t say that out loud….