Thursday, February 28, 2008
Webcomics Pot
News from the past, #2: WebComicsPot.
If you ever tried to publish a webcomic you will know that, once you’re done drawing, inking, painting, scanning, selecting, retouching and saving final, beautiful versions of your files there is one more step left: create a website that is easy to use, easy to update, looks good, displays your news, contact details and allows people to comment on your work. That’s what WebComicsPot is for. And it’s multilingual, too 
That was the second of our one-week projects, created at the beginning of this month. It was fun, even though we missed the deadline by three days (then again, we started with five days of delay, so we regained a bit).
Just like in favpico we tried to make the site as simple as possible: you provide a list of URLs pointing to your images and WCP does the rest for you. The only requirement is that each URL must contain a date (YYYY-MM-DD) so that we know when to show which page. You can also customize your site by adding your own HTML code in the sidebar and your own CSS code in the header.
It is also our first site to support (only) OpenId — we have much too many passwords already and don’t want to create more.
To wrap it up: it was a very educational experiment. We already got some great feedback on using the site and the reactions are so positive that we want to put more time into it
And next month, well, we will most probably create something more complex. Stay tuned.
