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What would a good website layout be for showing comics?

Brian McKinnon: Or art in general. I draw sometimes and bought a domain (brianmckinnon.info) for $.99 so I'd like to make a pretty good looking site. I tried Joomla! but it doesn't seem to work with GoDaddy free hosting.

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2 years ago

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Something standard like CTRL ALT DEL or Married to the Sea has (really any online comic-based site.) I might even have some base layout codes saved in an old work folder for my web design courses if you'd like. And of course there are far better coders on this site who might be able to suggest something. The layout, however, could and should be pretty simple and straightforward.

I've actually got a bitchin innerHTML format if you want to optimize your space.

Brian McKinnon's Avatar

The only HTML I know is from when I use to mess around with DIV overlays on myspace. haha.

At first I was going to build it all from scratch, so I sat down with a few of my HTML books and started reading, but that task was way too daunting.

Also, that would normally be good, but I do more, anime-style comics. Like have series and chapters. I have 3 different comics.

So the typical webcomic sites wouldn't work

Tollenaar's Avatar

Provided it's not taxing on your server space, you could just do print sized images with however many drawing cells you want, and for each page of the comic book, just use a different web page. Just but nav buttons under or above the image to transgress between pages and chapters.

Like [link name=so]http://www.onemanga.com/07_Ghost/39.2/03/[/link].

Brian McKinnon's Avatar

That would work, any idea where to get the code for that? Or did you mean just manual code each page?

Tollenaar's Avatar

That coding is actually incredibly simple and you could probably do it with your knowledge alone. I can look for a code for it, or just write one up real quick

If you really wanted to, you could just use a few line breaks, insert an <img> (the comic) and then a few lines below put some hyperlinks or image links going to the next and previous pages (different pages under the web directory; nothing complex)

Brian McKinnon's Avatar

I think I may be up to the challenge. If you have any other ideas though, let me know ^^

 

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