You should get sloshed for Paddy Day! Or maybe not with the school and all...I dunno, I have to work and a jewish guy I work with wanted to take the day off. *weep*

Do you know any decent tuts for wordpress? I'm not very smart, but I want to make a comic.

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Gods, that's the last thing I need to do. Getting drunk on top of recovering from a nasty cold...nope, I don't think so :\ Besides, I'm not a drinker anyway

Unfortunately, no I don't. With Wordpress, you need a web host that supports PHP and MySQL, and ideally, you should have some understanding of both. Wordpress also has it's own blog community, sort of like Blogger/BlogSpot. There are a number of free services centered around web comic publishing. SmackJeeves, Comic Genesis, and Drunk Duck. Those would probably be your best bet. The only reason I didn't bother with any of those is I have lots of experience with web design and development so it was really no problem to build my own web site and comic manager engine.

Sooooo not looking forward to the bus ride after school. Thank god for earbuds and mp3 players.

Heehee, speaking of the bus, when are you taking another shot at the license test?

I'd thought about posting on DD or whichever a while ago, but people tend to not have any sense for actual quality on sites like that. They only want to see exactly what they want to see and take a shit on anything else. Could be a possibility for a secondary posting just for some visibility as well as here, but I'd rather have a terrible main site of my own than be a little duck lost in a big sea of flotsam. I'll figure it out.

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Mmm...week after next, during Spring Break in fact. This time, if I fail again, I'm going back the week after that. Somehow I don't think I'm going to fail, though. I got three hours of driving instruction on the things that I effed-up the first time around. I now know how to do back-in parking and get it perfect on the first attempt. I also suspect that changing over to contacts may have played a role in that as well, though. Driving in reverse with my glasses on was just too difficult because of the lack of peripheral vision.

Actually, don't bother with Drunk Duck. Comic Genesis/Keenspace is actually better because I believe not only do they provide hosting but I think if you have your own domain name, you can use with Keenspace's hosting.

And...I also just remembered something else. You don't necessarily need Wordpress to run a comic. When I first started Silent Shadow I used a PHP script called Comikaze. There's also another PHP script called iManga, and both of these use MySQL as the database. Another thing I just realized (as I'm typing this in fact) is that my own Wordpress plugin, Manga+Press, could be a standalone script with some retooling which is something I'll have to think about

That, and there are a number of people who use dA as a type of comic hosting service, which for you would be perfect because you already have support from the people on your watch-list.

Just a thought, though Then there's ComicSpace, which is pretty much MySpace for comic artists

Good luck on the license test! I know you've been working at it for a while now, so you should have it down pretty well now.

I'm definitely planning on posting here, I just hope my watchers don't get annoyed by the updates, heehee. I'm also leaning away from Drunk Duck. As far as I can tell, most people are there to post, not to read, but Comic Genesis and especially Keenspot have a more avid audience. Any rate, I have more visibility here than I'd get at DD kinda like you were saying so I'm not sure I want to waste the attention; I don't think anyone would actually follow a series to my own site from there.

Thanks for the script pointers! I'll do some experimenting this weekend and see what I'm not over my head on, heee. I really just want to do something basic, main things are being able to post multiple images vertically each update and...I dunno otherwise, haha.

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I better pass it this time around; it's almost like I can't really move on until I get over that last hurdle.

Whichever you decide; there really isn't a right answer for what you choose to do. I'll probably upload the current chapter of Silent Shadow once it's finished. :\ I really need to find some source of...not inspiration...well, maybe inspiration...to continue working on it, I guess

Hey! Happy Birthday! I don't remember the day, but it's somewhere around this weekend.

The problem with a web Luddite like me is I worry about my computer exploding if I script something wrong. Like in that Die Hard movie! They hack into your computer and it explodes up your house!

I'll try to work up at least a test page this weekend, maybe that'll cue up a competetive streak for you to get some work done, hee.

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It's today I'm kind of like meh on my birthday though. Another sign I'm getting old. Used to be hey! I get something free today. Now it just means I'm that much older

Actually, I can tell you that won't happen. To experiment with something like PHP, you need to have a web server running PHP on your computer Or access to web space that allows you to run PHP scripts.

I'm still thinking I should have went to Anime Detour this year, whether or not I actually have the money. Now, it's too late though. Missed pre-registration and I don't feel like waiting in line for hours and having to pay $50-60 at the door to get in :\

I was thinking of going too, but yeah, didn't look it up until a couple days after registration, haha. As, big of a geek as I am, I've never actually been to a con, but I want to go to one this year.

Ah, well I guess I'll never get a site running then, will I?

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