May To-Do List
Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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For anybody who draws a comic they have thought about, at one point or another (if not all the time!), wanting to make it their full time job. That’s the goal right? Fortunately, I have been able to do my comic full time for the past year and a half, and I couldn’t be happier.Well, except for the fact that when you are self-employed getting a mortgage loan is even tougher than if you have a “real” job.
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They ket to making your Web site look the way you want it to look is learning CSS. But that’s a skill that few webcartoonists have at the ready — and it’s one that few of us want to invest the time to learning.
Thanks to Philip M. “Frumph” Hofer, I got a CSS crash course — and a sneaky tip to guiding me through applying my new know-how to become a self-taught CSS wizard.
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This post was kindly submitted by Mo Jones. It was originally posted at the previous Webcomics.com site, but it didn’t get included in the transfer. I’m posting it here so members will be able to access the information going forward.
I’ve been obsessed with page-load speeds for years, and I’ve learned quite a bit in that time – although I am by no means an expert. Page-load speed isn’t just a user experience issue – although it is certainly that – it can also affect your Google page rank.
Useful tools for monitoring and analysing your page load speed are pingdom.com and a the pagespeed Firefox plugin (yslow is also handy, but it hates Wibya, and will mark you down for using it). Pingdom tests your site from a server in Europe, so if your host is in the US it might show slower results than if you tested with Webpagetest with its multitude of locations to choose from – but Pingdom is useful as a benchmark.
I’m using a WordPress/Comicpress install, because that’s what I started with five years ago. There is an argument that says if speed is your priority, you shouldn’t use WordPress at all – and that’s a fair point. WP is great, but it’s big. If there is a leaner system out there that does everything I need and is secure, I’ll switch to it.
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Time for another round of Hitch it / Ditch it critiques. The rules are simple. I go to your site and list one thing I think you’re doing very well, and then I talk about one thing you might be able to do better. As always, this serves merely as the starting-off point for a larger discussion among the members.
If you were part of the previous Hitch it / Ditch it Hot Seat, I’d appreciate it if you would sit this one out. To be part of the critique, please list the following in the Comments section:
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There are a ton of options available to someone who wants to set up an online store, but how do you tell a good ecommerce solution from a bad one? Here are five features to consider.
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Patreon has just announced that Stripe, the credit-card processing company they use to process payments, has agreed to drop it’s fee from 2.9% to 2.1% — almost a full percentage point lower. That translates directly as more money in creators’ pockets.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Today’s Archive Dive is a mailbag question about Graphicly.
Q. What is your take on Graphicaly becoming a digital content publisher? http://graphicly.com/ is $150 worth someone else handling it?
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Since Heartbleed has made Web-site security top-of-mind lately, I wanted to pass along a handy Web app that can help give you peace of mind — or alert you to a potential problem.
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