I am, you can see it at www.sasta.info

What to say. It works, it was a bitch and a half to install, largely because I didn't own the server so I had to email admins VERY SPECIFIC requests for things that needed to be enabled, checked. As it is, I'm stuck behind the update curve, because it needs to run php 5.1 and it's running php 4.73.

It notifies you when things happen, assuming it is installed right, updates become 'click this button'. Prior to that it's a lot of unpacking zip packages to the correct directories, and editing config files.

Comicpress is essentially a 'skin-theme' that runs on top of Wordpress, with wordpress being focused on being a blog. The comicpress stuff won't run on it's own.

There is also, (just to because you really wanted to be a programmer and not an artist, right?) something else coming out, which is supposed to be completely redesigned for running comics, will allow multiple posts per day, and lots more meta-tracking data like story arc, character, background, location. It's, sort of in the beta stages, and ComicPress is sort-of not quite still being worked on. I was getting the impression that Comicpress was slotted to be phased out, and a lot of the things people were wishing for in the new version, are going into the CMA (or whatever it was called) version.

Okay thanks. Maybe it's easier when you use the Wordpress blog?

I'm... not sure what you mean.

Comicpress and Wordpress are both required for Comicpress to work. There's a blog there, largely text based, and it's functional or it can be disabled. Comicpress ads a bunch more controls, like navigation, story arcs, next-last buttons. Comicpress is kind-of like a big css stylesheet for Wordpress with some javascript functions attached.

It would be possible to run just wordpress, i don't know how useful that would be, as it's text focused.

It's not as bad necessarily as my experience has been, if you have control of your own box and/or are lucky with the hosting, installation might be the 5 minutes Wordpress claims. There are a couple sites that advertise themselves as wordpress compatible, and I'm pretty sure DrunkDuck has it. There's some advantages to being on a multi-comic site, largely traffic and exposure. The disads are not being 100% in control of everything, or in my case 95% in control of everything.