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Wordpress + Webcomic + Inkblot
14 years ago
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I've spend most of this week watching tutorials and rebuilding my site using Wordpress, the Webcomic plug-in, and the Inkblot theme.
Back behind the white wall that covers my site, there's a version of the site running that has things going on, test comics uploading -- my old college strip Raymond, in fact. There's plenty of those, and they test the automated functions nicely. It sets up a lot of things nicely, including handling multiple comics (which I will very much need).
But the truth is, I'm running into the wall in terms of my CSS programming abilities. It's not that I can't learn it. I taught myself HTML; and then ActionScript and a good hunk of JavaScript, which are really both versions of the most hateful assembly language I learned, PASCAL. It's that the Manual for Webcomic amounts to notes the programmers made to remind them what they did, and the tutorials are all half-hour videos with sparse descriptions, meaning you may have to watch two hours of footage to find out how to change a header file.
Honestly, this is consuming an enormous amount of time and brainpower, and actually preventing me from uploading the art that this software is supposed to facilitate. If one of you knows Webcomic well, or at least has a better grasp of CSS than I do, and wants to see me get back to uploading art, I won't turn down some help. A small amount of expert consulting could shave off a large amount of time for me.
I'm heading out of town Friday, and should be back Sunday night. Perhaps my brain will cool off some by then.
Back behind the white wall that covers my site, there's a version of the site running that has things going on, test comics uploading -- my old college strip Raymond, in fact. There's plenty of those, and they test the automated functions nicely. It sets up a lot of things nicely, including handling multiple comics (which I will very much need).
But the truth is, I'm running into the wall in terms of my CSS programming abilities. It's not that I can't learn it. I taught myself HTML; and then ActionScript and a good hunk of JavaScript, which are really both versions of the most hateful assembly language I learned, PASCAL. It's that the Manual for Webcomic amounts to notes the programmers made to remind them what they did, and the tutorials are all half-hour videos with sparse descriptions, meaning you may have to watch two hours of footage to find out how to change a header file.
Honestly, this is consuming an enormous amount of time and brainpower, and actually preventing me from uploading the art that this software is supposed to facilitate. If one of you knows Webcomic well, or at least has a better grasp of CSS than I do, and wants to see me get back to uploading art, I won't turn down some help. A small amount of expert consulting could shave off a large amount of time for me.
I'm heading out of town Friday, and should be back Sunday night. Perhaps my brain will cool off some by then.
If you're serious about it, I recommend using the Firefox web browser and getting a few key extensions:
Aardvark - Very, very handy!
Html Validator - Quick syntax check. Why don't browsers have this built-in?
Web Developer - Among other things, lets you know if the browser is in "strict" mode.