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….
October 28th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
This is great info to know.
January 13th, 2009 at 3:55 am
Hi , i have some questions about you desing
maybe you can give designer contacts?
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I did the graphic design of my site myself. My friend, Tyler, is the one who did all the hard work and put it all together and made it all work. You can click on the links above and check out his info on his websites. That’s really all the designer contacts I know, at least in relation to this site.
March 1st, 2009 at 6:07 pm
is there a forum on the site?