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Ghostscript is a processor for PostScript and PDF files. It can rasterize these files to a wide variety of printers, devices for screen preview, and image file formats. Since applications tend to prepare pages for printing in a high-level format such as PostScript, most Unix users with low-level bitmap printers, such as inkjets, use GhostScript as part of the printing process. In addition, Ghostscript is capable of converting PostScript files, functionality comparable to Adobe Acrobat Distiller, but on the command line. In addition, Ghostscript is used for file import and viewing by a great many other applications, including xv, ImageMagick, gimp, and xdvi. Several GUI wrappers for viewing PostScript and PDF files exist, including GSview, ghostview, gv, ggv, and kghostview. This is far from a comprehensive list.
GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, it allows selected pages to be viewed or printed. GSview requires Ghostscript 7 or later.
KTML is a browser-based WYSIWYG HTML editor that facilitates easy content formatting using its advanced table and image manipulation features. Unlike other online editors, it supports most platforms and configurations, providing users with advanced text and paragraph formatting capabilities as well as CSS support and easy HTML tag selection. It also features advanced image manipulation, an effective spell checking module, and a Server Behavior for Dreamweaver MX.
HTTPManifold is an application for funnelling Web/HTTP traffic for multiple servers through a single IP address (a reverse proxy). It is intended for home users and small businesses so that they can host multiple domains and sub-domains through a single IP address on port 80. HTTPManifold forwards traffic to other machines, logs requests, and rewrites content during the process. It can also log the raw content of requests for the purpose of debugging Web services, etc. It provides a Web interface for configuration and log viewing with some log analysis capabilities.


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"Our network serves nearly two-thirds of the nation's population and is well-positioned to capture a significant share of the domestic intermodal market opportunity, estimated at about nine million total loads in the eastern United States," Eliasson said. "Investments in expanded capacity will help convert this long-run opportunity, building on about 30 percent growth in our intermodal business during the past three years."
CSX shipped 2.5 million intermodal containers in 2012, with 90 percent of that traffic in double-stacked service. The company continues to invest in capital projects to expand its intermodal network, which will further increase double-stacked corridors by 2015 with hubs aligned with major ports and population centers.

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To me, most of these are great. There is only one that I really dislike... Hoola. I know, I know. Lots of people out there absolutely love it, but it's probably my least favorite bronzer ever. That's a whoooole other story.
But back to the positives, most of the shades are really wearable and flattering. I think overall, the formulas are great too. If I had to choose an all-time favorite, it would have to be Dallas...
Surprisingly followed by this new one.
Yes, it's fabulous.
Don't miss my full review (and some possible downfalls) at the bottom of the post.
This is how Benefit describes it...
Our famously provocative cheek powder in rockin' rose gold gives a show-stopping "rush of heat." For an encore, the sexy sculpted design is accented in gold.
Here's what it looks like on. Very natural! It's a pretty rosy flush.
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RunJRun is a very simple system for doing parallel processing in Java, using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances as compute nodes. The basic compute unit is a Runnable, Serializable Java object, a "task" for short. A user submits a list of such tasks to RunJRun. Each task then has its run() method invoked on an EC2 instance. To use it, you'll need an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that has the RunJRun server-side software installed; several such AMIs are available.
StarCluster is a utility for creating traditional computing clusters used in research labs or for general distributed computing applications on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It uses a simple configuration file provided by the user to request cloud resources from Amazon and to automatically configure them with a queuing system, an NFS shared /home directory, passwordless SSH, OpenMPI, and ~140GB scratch disk space. It consists of a Python library and a simple command line interface to the library. For end-users, the command line interface provides simple intuitive options for getting started with distributed computing on EC2 (i.e. starting/stopping clusters, managing AMIs, etc). For developers, the library wraps the EC2 API to provide a simplified interface for launching/terminating nodes, executing commands on the nodes, copying files to/from the nodes, etc.
TurnKey Amazon EC2 SDK Appliance is a server appliance that provides an SDK designed to help develop for the Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2). It bundles libraries which interface with Amazon's APIs and allows you to develop custom Amazon AMI images, which can then be launched as instances in EC2. It is designed to be easy to use and easy to maintain. Security patches are automatically installed. It provides a Web management interface, configuration console, and an AJAX Web shell. To minimize footprint the appliance is built from the ground up with the minimum required components. It runs everywhere thanks to multiple build formats, including an installable live CD, a VMDK with OVF support, and an Amazon EC2 AMI.
LASIC is a language that facilitates creating and managing systems in a cloud environment. It allows you to create scripts that describe a system, its components, and the relationship between those components using a declarative syntax. Various verbs can then be applied to the script such as deploy (create a new system), shutdown, or runAction(run some action on components of the system). LASIC currently supports Amazon's cloud environment (AWS). LASIC stands for Language for Automating Systems in the Cloud.
EC2 Mobile manages Amazon AWS EC2 instances from a Windows Mobile device. It allows you to start, stop, and manage running EC2 instances. If you have multiple clients who run their services on EC2, you can also store multiple profiles so that you can see all of the instances running across all clients. Similarly, you can see each profile's AMI images.
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I really like to fuck a guy who's lying flat on his stomach, just taking it. That's not the ONLY position I like, in fact I like to change positions a lot, but that's how I like to finish, especially when he's a True Bottom and still likes to get fucked after he's cum (I make sure my bottoms cum unless they really, really don't want to).
I'm not sure if this is a dominance thing, or if it's just because it's how I topped my first bottoms, but it's even my favorite position to watch.
It's become a pretty unusual position in porn, maybe because it was so common in early days, or maybe because you really can't see the bottom's cock.
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What are your Top 10 Fetishes?
Post them here, with or without pictures!
Mine Are:
01. Acne/Zits/Pimples
02. Chavs/Scally/''Hard'' Men
03. Pissing/Smoking
04. Suits/Men At Work
05. Feet/Flip Flops/Socks/Bare
06. "Straight" Men
07. Old Daddies/Moustaches
08. Hairy Arabs
09. Black Man Ass/Tongue
10. Twins (Incest)
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Black Man fucks a White Man
Old MILF and Hunk
Teacher Student Afterschool
Army Men
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Special Upgrade 4 Tech Tips 12/27/2016Hi all! Now that Upgrade 4 is out and about in large quantities we have now discovered a few SNAFUs that happen out in the scary, real world that is home computing. Fortunately the rate of problems is extremely small and so far most are easily worked around. We've identified a few issues that have similar causes which we have clear instructions for work arounds here they are: 1. CMRT Windows customers need to re-license their original key. This is a result of improvements to the licensing system which CMBN, CMBS, and CMFB are already using. To do this launch CMRT with the Upgrade and the first time enter your Engine 4 key. Exit and then use the "Activate New Products" shortcut in your CMRT folder, then enter your Engine 3 license key. That should do the trick. 2. CMRT and CMBN MacOS customers have a similar situation as #2, however the "Activate New Products" is inside the Documents folder in their respective CM folders. For CMBN you have to go through the process described above for each of your license keys. There is no special order to follow. 3. For CMBS and CMFB customers, you need to use the Activate New Products shortcut and enter your Upgrade 4 key. If you launch the game and see a screen that says "LICENSE FAILURE: Base Game 4.0 is required." that is an indication you haven't yet gone through that procedure. Provided you had a properly functioning copy before installing the Upgrade, that should be all you need to do. If in the future you have to install from scratch on a new system you'll need to do the same procedure for both your original license key and your Upgrade 4.0 key. 4. There's always a weird one and here it is. A few Windows users are not getting "Activate New Products" shortcuts created during installation. Apparently anti-virus software is preventing the installer from doing its job. This might not be a problem right now, but it will prove to be an issue at some point in the future. The solution is to create your own shortcut using the following steps: Disable your anti-virus software before you do anything. Go to your Desktop, right click on the Desktop itself, select NEW->SHORTCUT, use BROWSE to locate the CM EXE that you are trying to fix. The location is then written out. After it type in a single space and then paste this:
Click NEXT and give your new Shortcut a name (doesn't matter what). Confirm that and you're done. Double click on the new Shortcut and you should be prompted to license whatever it is you need to license. At this time we have not identified any issues that have not been worked around. Let's hope it stays that way Steve
Forum Reorganization 10/12/2017We've reorganized our Combat Mission Forums to reflect the fact that most of you are now running Engine 4 and that means you're all using the same basic code. Because of that, there's no good reason to have the discussion about Combat Mission spread out over 5 separate sets of Forums. There is now one General Discussion area with Tech Support and Scenario/Mod Tips sub forums. The Family specific Tech Support Forums have been moved to a new CM2 Archives area and frozen in place. You might also notice we dropped the "x" from distinguishing between the first generation of CM games and the second. The "x" was reluctantly adopted back in 2005 or so because at the time we had the original three CM games on European store shelves entitled CM1, CM2, and CM3 (CMBO, CMBB, and CMAK). We didn't want to cause confusion so we added the "x". Time has moved on and we have to, so the "x" is now gone from our public vocabulary as it has been from our private vocabulary for quite a while already. Side note, Charles *NEVER* used the "x" so now we're all speaking the same language as him. Which is important since he is the one programming them
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Love Lady Gaga. Love MAC. Love pink lipstick. So needless to say, I'm loving this. For those of you not familiar with the MAC Viva Glam campaign, 100% of the proceeds of VG products go to the MAC AIDS fund.
This color is really nice. It's a lustre formula, but the payoff is great. It's very shiny and can be applied sheer if you use a light hand, but the color builds very quickly to a very noticeable, but wearable pink.
The release date for this seems to be different all over the place. So just call your counter or store if you're unsure of it's availability. But it is available at maccosmetics.com already.
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Want a $1000 every two years? Pre-paid smartphone plans can save you at least that much. The New York Times Bits blog posted the math: a $650 iPhone 5 coupled with Virgin Mobile $30 pre-paid cellular and data plan (the plan has since gone up to $35 a month) costs about $1370. Total cost of a two year contract with AT&T? According to the Times, about $2360.
There is a big problem with this scenario: The Times' example of a Virgin Mobile plan and an unlocked iPhone 5, is an unlikely one. An unlocked iPhone 5 from the Apple store will only work with GSM carriers. Since Virgin is a CDMA network you pretty much have to buy the phone from them. At the time of writing the iPhone 5 isn't available for purchase from Virgin. The iPhone 4 and 4S are available on the company's website.
Regardless, the Times makes a good point: it's now possible to save an a significant sum if you're willing to pay more up front. Will consumers buy in to this and compensate by going for inexpensive Android phones? I suspect not. Google's flagship smartphone, the Nexus 4's price point of $299 is a major reason I'm convinced pre-paid plans aren't going to be a big part of the high-end phone market. With a $30 a month T-Mobile plan the bi-annual savings would be about $1341, meaning the phone would pay for itself in about six months. Whether it's the best phone for $299 is debatable of course, but it sure sounds to me like a better phone than the iPhone 4, which retails for $50 more from Virgin Mobile and $150 more from Apple.
There are compelling reasons to buy Apple's products and I doubt too that pre-paid smartphones will usher Apple's demise. I do wonder, though, how much consumers purchasing pre-paid plans will enjoy paying a lot more for the older iPhone models which, at least on paper, are inferior to the competition. These older models sold surprisingly well in Apple's last quarter, certainly because of cost. The illusion that the iPhone 4 is "free" comes from the subsidized phone business model. In a pre-paid model, the iPhone 4 doesn't look like a bargain anymore.
The Nexus 4 paying for itself sounds enticing, even in spite of the fact that in December I figured out how to hack a free phone plan. The Nexus 4 is only available for use with GSM carriers, which is fine as I believe that to make buying an unlocked phone really worth it, GSM strikes me as the only viable choice. For starters there's more choice in terms of hardware at all price points. There are disadvantages, particularly that GSM technology has trouble handling events with large numbers of people on the same carrier.
But there's one huge advantage: the ability to painlessly change carriers. All that's needed is to swap the SIM card for one from the new carrier. GSM is also a global standard, so when traveling it's easy to set up with a local carrier.
The fact that it's almost painless and completely viable to swap carriers on a whim is a sea change, for sure. It will open the door for smaller cellular companies to attract customers with lower rates and better service. It may also force the big players to adjust their prices for example, Sprint charges $70 a month for pre-paid service, and AT&T's pricing starts at $50 a month. If coverage at T-Mobile or Virgin is just as good, why wouldn't a consumer switch?
I think it's crazy at this point to claim CDMA carriers are finished. They've got enormous networks with millions of customers. But as consumers slowly realize that there's absolutely no need to sign smartphone contracts many will likely look for the least-restrictive service that would allow them easily to shift their business. It could end up like buying gas for your car not many people are brand-loyal to Chevron or Shell; we choose gas stations based on price and convenience.
Pre-paid plans are advantageous for companies that support BYOD for their employees. The company can more easily consider paying for data plans for employees, and might be able to negotiate volume purchases from carriers. At the same time, IT could keep inexpensive phones around to activate on an as-needed basis.
What's clear from all of this is that there may be changes coming, but a lot of that has to do with how quickly and at what rate consumers and enterprises adopt pre-paid packages. Regardless, the changes won't be fast, but the current situation, with its massive price inefficiencies, can't continue unaffected.


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1:55 pm - 01/26/2013
It is January 26th in Korea, which marks a very special day for the lovely Sun of Wonder Girls.
As you all know, Sun is tying the knot with her fiance James Park, becoming the first member out of the current idol groups to get married!
Sun's wedding started recently at 12:30 PM KST at the Seoul Lotte Hotel, but ahead of the event, the beautiful bride held a press conference and shared her excitement about the ceremony and her upcoming life as a newlywed.
Sun commented, "Marriage to me is a turning point in life and a new start. Since I was little, I liked being on the stage and being a singer so I have kept running towards achieving that until now. However, as time passed, I wondered about what direction my life would take next. And naturally, marriage came about and I think it is a new start as a turning point."
She consoled some of her fans as she shared, "I'm so thankful that my members sincerely congratulated me and was truly happy for me. As they cheered me on, I felt strengthened while preparing for my marriage… Many people have expressed their sadness and regret as well, but I will continue to be with you all so please don't be sad."
She also revealed her thoughts on who she thought might be the next to get married out of the Wonder Girls members, stating, "Each of the members have their dreams about starting a family… And although Lim is the youngest, I personally feel that maybe she will marry before the other members. I think Lim will be a great wife and mother."
As it is known she'll be heading to Maldives for her honeymoon, she revealed that she planned to "spend it comfortably" when asked about her first honeymoon night coming up. She also confirmed, "There is no new life in my stomach at the moment" denying any rumors about this being a shotgun wedding. However, she revealed that she would like to have "one son and one daughter".
"James really loves kids. I always dreamed about a happy family since I was little, so I think keeping that in mind, I think James will be a good father too."
Sun also explained Jo Kwon's reaction to her asking to oversee the ceremony as she stated, "At first, when I asked Jo Kwon, he said that he felt uncomfortable with the idea because he thought he would cry. However since he is a guy who is good with a mic, I'm not worried."
The idol also revealed more details: "I asked Yenny to sing the congratulatory song. I thought it'd be nice for JYP artist to do so, and J.Y. Park has also agreed to do it as well. I thought it might feel awkward for him, but he seemed to be fine with it so I was thankful."
The question on everyone's mind was then answered as she shared the story behind her wedding ring. "According to my husband-to-be, he was trying to prepare a ring from his grandma, but it turned out his parents had secretly already prepared a ring. I learned about the significance of the ring of my in-laws, and how they wanted to get the same ring for the future as well, and I almost cried. I told myself, I'd want to become a mother-in-law like that someday as well."
Lastly, she sent a message to the public and her fans with a short, but sweet words: "I'll live happily and well."
Some of the stars attending the wedding are JJ Project, San E, J.Y. Park, Wonder Girls, Younha, Girls' Generation, Bada, Noel, Ahn Hye Won, Park Kyung Lim, 2AM, and more.
We hope all the best for Sun!
OP's note: akp missed a few bits therefore I included some bits translated by Wonderfuls on twitter
When reporters asked Sun Ye about how she felt for being the first idol to get married, Sun Ye said, "I didn't think about getting married as being the first idol to do so. To be honest, rather than I, I heard that some people who were idols before now lived happily married. I wanted to find happiness as well, so you could say that I followed them."
Sun Ye "Until now, I've been chasing my dream on stage, I did so since a very young age. As time went by, I felt like I had to determine the new direction my life would take. I believe that my wedding is my life's turning point."
Sun Ye about the girls, "Sohee, Ye Eun, Yoobin and Hyerim congratulated me and gave me their blessings and encouragements. Thanks to the members, I was able to gather my strength and smoothly go on with the wedding's preparations."
Sun Ye said with teary eyes,about the Wonder Girls' future plans, "The members will be focusing on individual activities. And one day, I will too, be standing on stage as a singer once again."
Sun Ye about the members, "I'm really thankful to the members for congratulating me and giving me their blessings. Even though a lot of people would think it's unfortunate (for not seeing us stand on stage as five), you will have plenty of time to see and appreciate each member's individuality, so I hope you won't be too disappointed about it."
Sun Ye, "I'm not quitting being a singer. Even though I can't give you a definite answer for now, my voice lives only through music. I will never be too far so keep an eye out."
JYPE revealed, "Sun Ye is getting married and she is absolutely not leaving the group. For the time being, the members will be conducting individual activities."
JY Park @followjyp
I met a smart young girl and taught her for 12 years. But I realize that I learned more from her than I taught her. Congratulations Sun...
JO KWON @2AMkwon:
너가 언제나 늘 행복할수 있도록 뒤에서 기도할게. 행복해라 내친구 선예야.
Translation: "I will pray for you to always be happy. Be happy my dear friend Sunye."
JO KWON @2AMkwon
선예덕분에 영재아이들이 십여년만에 뭉쳤다. 감동스러운 순간이구나.. 사랑해 :-)
Translation: Thanks to Sunye, all the other talented kids have gathered together in years. Such a touching moment.. I love you :-)
JO KWON @2AMkwon
어제 사회 실수 하지 않기 위해서 새벽까지 연습한 보람이 있는 사회였어!!!!! >_<
Translation: In order to not make a mistake on my speech, I'd stayed up all night practicing for this!!!!! >_<
울언니 결혼축하해!! 사랑해♥♥ 이제부터는 형부랑 행복하게 살앙 ㅠㅠ내가 보내줄게~~ 흐흐흐 선예언니결혼을 축복해주세요*^^*
Translation: Congratulations on your wedding, unni! I love you ♥♥ Live happily with brother-in-law ㅠㅠ I will send you off~ Hehehe, please congratulate Sunye unni's wedding *^^*… Kiss~♥.
Irene Kim @ireneisgood
아이 예뻐라~congrats hun!!!!!
sources: akp, wonderfacts@twitter, Darkbrowny@twitter, pictures as tagged (newsen, osen, sportschosun, starnews, artnews, sbs news, etc.), translations by yunhaa@twitter and w2dtranslations@twitter, joo@twitter, jokwon@twitter, irenekim@twitter, preview picture lamely edited by me


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Saturday, July 21 at 8pm: My Music, British Beat
This year's Closing Ceremony aims to celebrate fact that music has been one of Britain's strongest cultural exports over the last 50 years. Why wait for August? Tune in as My Music travels on location to London and around the UK to the place where the British Beat was born.
Thursday, July 26 at 9pm: Strong!
In a few days, we get to see serious athletic glory. But what about all the hard work that goes into preparing for an Olympic competition? Strong! follows Cheryl Haworth as struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career inches towards its inevitable end. Strong! chronicles her journey and the challenges this unusual elite athlete faces, exploring popular notions of power, strength, beauty and health.


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Checkout: We have special inspectors to check out the finished costumes; their job is to check two main aspects of the costumes. Firstly, check if there is some breakage or if the sewing is qualified. Secondly, they will inspect if the size, color and costume style are correspond to customers' order, also they will check if all the accessories are complete. The whole procedure is very careful, and after the product inspection, the inspectors will register and handle every costume well.
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A few days ago, the NYT lit into Ted Cruz: "Texas Senator Goes on Attack and Raises Bipartisan Hackles." And now, it's John McCain who's ruffling the feathers of big media, whose meme is The GOP died. So, whenever a Republican Senator is anything by docile and deferential, the Death-of-the-GOP meme must be swapped out long enough to discipline the outlier. The standard message is: Nobody likes you. Metaphor of choice: Hackles. You're raising hackles.
Here's my meme for that media discipline: When they say hackles, I say hacks.
The article with the headline quoted in this post title is at The Washington Post. Here's some of the text:
The 76-year-old will be 80 when he is again up for reelection in Arizona in 2016. "I have seen a number of occasions around here where people have stayed too long," McCain said during a recent interview in his Russell Senate Building office. "I have seen people who were real giants in this institution deteriorate, and unfortunately, we remember them at the end."Wow. That's heavy-handed! They're saying: The GOP is supposed to be dead, and you're at the grave's edge, old man. Old, old man. You look old. Old men when the say what they mean and they say it with passion seem like they're saying "get off my lawn." Har harr. Old man! You're going to die soon.
Endings matter in politics. If McCain is approaching the exit, this term could determine how he will be remembered. ("In the way people think of him," former GOP Arizona senator Jon Kyl said, "in the near term, it matters a great deal.")
Right now, like it or not, the five-term senator is stuck in "get off my lawn" territory, lashing out at his friend-turned-foe Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for defense secretary; incessantly tugging at what McCain is convinced is a coverup of the September attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya; lambasting the president; and railing against indiscriminate defense cuts. If hard-core conservatives feel burned by McCain's resurgent reform spirit, the media that he once called his "base" have essentially written him off as an angry and sour loser who once went through a maverick phase but has, in the words of "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart, gone on a "seven-year quest to negate every good thing he'd ever done."
You don't have to be a genius to extract the bias and see the real message: McCain is effective.
By the way, the hackles article about Cruz depicted him as too young — hadn't been around long enough to be speaking with intensity and passion.
ADDED: I deleted a line that was in this post for a couple minutes: "by the way, hackles are not feathers." I based that on what I'd read — quickly — in the (unlinkable) Oxford English Dictionary when I wrote the "hackles" post about Cruz:
The hackles of a cock are erected when he is angry; hence with the hackles up, said also of a dog on the point of fighting when the hairs at the top of the neck stand up or of a hound when near the fox and on the point of killing him, also transf. of a man when aroused. Hence hackles is sometimes put for hair, whiskers, etc.I pictured the cock's comb, but reading more of the OED entry "hackle," I see:
The long shining feathers on the neck of certain birds, as the domestic cock, peacock, pigeon, etc. Also, the feathers on the saddle of a cock. a cock of a different hackle, an opponent of a different character.


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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Is There a Web Designer Volunteer?
To start with I thought it would make sense to put all my comics, and storyboards on their own site. I would want to aim these at a wider audience than say the folks that come here to learn cartooning tips. So I can sell more advertising and make some money.
Anybody have any ideas how I could structure a comic/storyboard site?
Should I do it on a blog? Or a regular website where people can find the different chaacters and click them to read their stories?
Are there sites I should be looking at for ideas?
Here's my problem. When people try to tell me technical stuff, it sounds like this:
"blog format for the free form teaching and "check this out!" stuff. The static-ish traditional website can, and should be slicker and more youtube/portfolio like for people searching for entertainment and introductory info - can be fresh if built with modular approach and a good Content Management System (CMS) - Lots of Wordpress templates or even Joomla... Gotta feel comfortable around the backend of a website, but you get up to speed quickly, as you are currently with Blogger. Many options..."
I can't read that at all. That's how ignorant I am of computer lingo.
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- flashcartoons said...
My opinion is that a regular website you will end up with costs, such as domain registration and hosting.
Blogger I think is the best bet. Maybe make a story boarding blog. Maybe clean up the blogs you just don't use. Then link them together.
I went to college for web designing, and I will admit, updating a static website is not as easy as updating blogger.
I am pro-blogger on this idea.
- jim said...
No harm in splitting up the blog, but at the same time it'e easy enough to ignore the posts here that don't really reach me.
- JohnK said...
My goal is to reach a wider audience, not just cartoonists
by having a pure entertainment site-storyboards,comics
and to make it easy for them to find each story
On the blog as it is now, you have to hunt for everything, and regular folks will not be interested in reading cartoon history or doing Preston Blair exercises
they just wanna watch or read cartoons in some form
- Andy J. Latham said...
Why not have both a normal website and a blog? I'd say put your "wider audience" stuff on a standard website, and use the blog for things you are expressing opinions about. The blog is much more suited to talking to people in the informal way that you currently do, which is one reason I enjoy this blog.
- RAKninja said...
Finally you ask for something _I_ can do.
The comics and storyboards could very easily go onto a gallery-type website. Even in plain old HTML, a thumbnail gallery linking to full size images wouldn't be too hard to whip up.
If you did it with PHP it would then be even easier to update. It would also be easier to make it searchable and also to cross categorize the individual galleries.
The biggest question is where you are going to host the page. Many free hosting services have fairly rigid templates for you to design your site. Payed hosting (usually starting around $10 a month) of course offers total customization.
- talkingtj said...
seperate blog for cartooning tips and art history, then your own private blog. good luck!and thanks!
- Chris Rank said...
So are you looking to generate income from the site? I have plenty of ideas for you. I'm happy to give you some ideas. It's the least I can do for you.
- Frank said...
I could help with the design, it shouldn't take too long.
I'm a game designer right now, but used to do Flash/PHP websites.
If you have a template and would like to know how long it would take to assemble it in html and maybe add a database (to store your entries/categories), just send me an email : firstname.lastname@example.com
- The Ivanator said...
long time reader of your blog and first time comment on it.
I'd have to agree w flashcartoons, it's too much cost and backend work to have a static site. a blog is definitely faster and since you're already familiar with how it works, there's no need to re-learn.
have your content ideas split in various blogs (i.e. the blog to let's say johnkcomics or johnkcartoons or johnktips, etc.).
If you want a website, you can try sites.google.com. I tried it and it's okay. Frankly I think blogger.com is easier to put contents out there.
If you do want to reach a wider audience having a registered domain will usually come up in a google search faster than with blogs.
Also since you wanna put some videos out there, I'd say Vimeo is better. They have lot less restriction and have more space than YouTube.
I do use your search function on your blog when I'm looking for specific subject. but you're right about hunting contents on your blog, it can be difficult. Maybe it's the layout navigation that needed to be move around so it's easier interface for readers out there.
Anyways that's my two cents or lots of cents in this case.
- Gary Wintle said...
You'd probably spend more time on the building and updating of the site itself unfortunately than the actual content, which is what we all love getting from you, John.
Maybe a custom blog? It may cost a little money, but my friend made my brother and I a custom blog on the cheap with through "wordpress".
Personally, I like getting all your info on one blog.
Nothing beats one single blog with tons of regular posts. Variety smariety, John; the content is "The mind of John K". That's more than enough for me and I'm sure many others.
Thanks again for everything.
- Chris_Garrison said...
I've always thought Dumm Comics should have 7 artists, instead of 6 (one gets the whole weekend). Maybe you could join them and get FRS to split the weekend with you.
- Gary Wintle said...
Just read your reply in the comments here upon finishing my previous comment.
Hmm...maybe some simple buttons on the top of the blog to navigate to what content you want?
- diskgrunt said...
I guess it really depends on what you want to invest financially. With tools like Wordpress and Joomla you should be able to build a site that allows you to post to your blog but leverage that info easily in more direct presentations in your portfolio /pitch /entertain website. Allowing you to leverage the cartooning community by maintaining your active role and to attract people just interested in laughing and maybe buying your work.
Even still you could setup a rather basic website that you could present your work in a more directed manner with. My portfolio site is essentially one page of code repeated over and over again with only the links changing as needed. Mind you it's not full of flash, and isn't super fancy but it's clean, easy to update and lets me put more thought into what work goes up there as opposed to how to get the work up. Once you have your skeleton site setup, you would continue to use your blog as is and when relevant you would place new work on your website and link accordingly.
- Vaetten said...
How about splitting this into different blogs? Another idea would be using a blogging script on a static website, something you could easily update
- Robert G. said...
I think your site would benefit from a some topic separation, but I wouldn't want to see a different site/domain name for each category. Rather, a single blog-type site with navigation across the top which would allow you to see only posts in a single category if clicked, while maintaining a main home page with posts from all categories mixed together as it is now.
I'm guessing Blogger probably can't do this. But there are content management systems like Drupal.org that can, but they can require quite a bit more work in maintenance than a pure blogging platform like Blogger. You may want to try out squarespace.com. It seems much more robust than Blogger while still being friendly to non-techie users.
- gabriel valles said...
Check out ComicPress.
- nktoons said...
Great idea about a webcomic, John! Here are some links to get you started..http://mediatemple.net/
http://wordpress.org/ and http://comicpress.org/
You would want to get in contact with the gentleman on the last link, to build a store for your site.
Wordpress/Comicpress will suit your needs perfectly. It functions just like blogger but is more robust. Here are some great webcomics......
- Andrés Sanhueza said...
A regular blogger blog can be used under an own domain, but I think that an own hosting has the advantage of more flexibility and not having to rely on external policies. Although pay for it (domain and hosting) cost money. The problem of allowing only people with accounts commenting can be solved too.
I believe the site can be done with a "content management system" like Wordpress, which behaves like a blog but its design and functionality is very customizable as is done in Dumm Comics and several other sites. Probably inside a same site there may be many "blogs", yet each one with its own design and functions, so don't necessarily they have to look like one.
- Bruce said...
FWIW, I love the blog as it is, but I can see why you want to split it up. I split my weblog, portfolio, and comic sites up last year, and while it's significantly more work, each are more focused (and better I think).
If you do split up the blog, you can always link from your weblog to posts on your portfolio/animation site (or whatever), to keep blog readers up to date. I do this, any many of the artists and designers I know do the same.
For a blog, stick with something like Blogger (cheap, works well). For a specialized site, find a web developer/consultant as there are many tools and services that might fit you. Find a professional with a brilliant portfolio though, as there are many hacks out there willing to take your money for little in return.
My custom sites (non blogs) cost a few grand to set up (mostly my own time). A pro designer adds a few grand more (I usually do my own design, but use pros for my clients). Good custom sites aren't usually expensive to run monthly, just the cost of the service or hosting, and your time to keep them updated.
Good luck!
- PaulW said...
I have to agree that by moving away from Blogger, you would incur costs for bandwidth (a nightmare with your sort of traffic!), space and domain renewals.
You can modify the basic Blogger pages quite nicely to make the content more accessible. Have a look at my blog for a basic example. I think the blog format suits this sort of site well, but needs some work on improving the navigation. The downside is you would need some knowledge of the XML template format....
I do like boingboing's latest design. That is based around a Wordpress blog, but shows that a more navigable blog can be made with some work.
- Jeffrey said...
maybe look at wordpress.
they have a pages feature.
You could quickly create page called
John K. Art and then a sub pages
named model sheets, storyboards etc..
Another set maybe called Tips
sub-sets called blah, blah,
for paid hosting try
no knowledge of html/css required.
- zoe said...
If you want a web designer, I'd be happy to help. I can go over some potential designs with you if you like. Shoot me an e-mail: zoepiel (at) gmail.com (hopefully this will prevent spambots.)
- Reg said...
I'm a web designer as well as a huge fan of the site - I'd be delighted to give this all some thought. I'll send along some ideas.
- Jonathan said...
I would say that if you're looking to just post cartoons, XKCD has a great example of what you can do:
I've never found myself wanting more from the site, even as simple as it is... it is extremely effective. If you're going to do cartoons and boards w/o the writing, that is probably the best way to go.
For the writing, I would stick to a blogging software, either Blogger or WordPress. There are other platforms like MoveableType that might work well if you're going for your own domain. Actually, if you used a hosted version of WordPress, there is a lot more you could do to combine the two ideas of writing a blog, as well as having a gallery style presentation for the comics. Food for thought :)
- introvert said...
If this is something you plan on having up for a while, and you already know what it's going to be for and how it will be organized, then a website could work to your advantage.
Really what you could do is set the website up so that it just links to the various entertaining blog posts, which could make updating it simpler, based on how you want it all to be presented.
- Toole said...
You should look into "content management systems" for your own web space, you can make the layout yourself pretty easy or just use a volunteer one time to design the 'template'. Then its as easy as blogspot.
- Sean_Mills_Hospital said...
Blogger is great... I don't know if fees are an issue, but I advocate a hybrid simple html site with separate html links for each "story" or "storyboards."
This makes copy pasting a specific entry easier, and it helps give a better frame for the work instead of just scrolling blog entries.
That being said, you can also easily embed your TWITTER other goodies as well as make a portal for all your stuff.
I used to design secondary web pages for sports teams this way. You can see here: http://www.seanmills.net16.net/pages/05.html
I would be happy to help out if I can.
- Sean_Mills_Hospital said...
I advocate simple a simple html page with easy to copy and paste links in a frame page.
I used to design web pages for sports teams, before I left for graduate school. You can see what I mean here:
I really benefit from your writing, so if I can help I would be happy to volunteer.
- SoleilSmile said...
Hey Flash Cartoons, couldn't John use Google Sites for free hosting? He'll still have to register a domain, but the hosting would be free. That's how I have my 60-80 page comic issues hosted every year. Although I must say I prefer the simple templates of Google Pages which is now defunct.
Now to John,
what you would need is a google email address and the link to Google Sites is here:
Have fun exploring!
- Jeremy said...
Hi John, I think this is a great idea! There are a few options for self hosting like squarespace or godaddy.
Squarespace and Godaddy both aren't free like blogger but they're user friendly. If you use Godaddy, it's probably best with a wordpress installed(easy installation) and then you can offer webpages along with your blog content. Godaddy also makes it easy to password protect content so you can have a members only area for people who want to support you directly. Maybe a paid membership will give some extra perks.
Flickr or Picasa still work better than some free versions of online galleries.. just had a website hacked because of the gallery software installed on the site. Lots of options out there now so hopefully you can find something that works for you.
- Severin said...
Hmm, since no one's suggested it yet, I'll just mention that comicpress is damn easy. If you can secure a webmaster, though, that would be far preferable, since you could customize your archives and other bits to suit your purpose.
Your top priority, I imagine, is just to get the website off the ground, and comicpress would be fast and easy enough that you could have something ready in a week or two.
Good luck!
- Paulo said...
Hi John.
I think there are some wordpress templates that fit your needs, the portfolio templates are great for doing this and its easy as updating blogger (or almost as easy)
Could you give me some advice on my drawings? paulorlombardi.blogspot.com
The last post is more about figure drawing, but the previous ones are cartoon exercises (I dont have much time to upload my drawings, but I draw everyday)
- Robert said...
I can't really contribute anything, but I do fancy the idea of splitting your blog in two.
- Shawn Dickinson said...
I'd love to see something like Spumco.com come back. Maybe you could also sell merchandise from the site to help cover the cost if the website?
- LeoBro said...
John, I'm not sure this will be helpful, but this is an example of a site that uses something called WebComic:
Ignore the comic. At the very bottom right corner is a link to the site that describes the platform ("Powered by WordPress with WebComic & InkBlot").
- zillustration said...
blog format for the free form teaching and "check this out!" stuff. The static-ish traditional website can, and should be slicker and more youtube/portfolio like for people searching for entertainment and introductory info - can be fresh if built with modular approach and a good Content Management System (CMS) - Lots of Wordpress templates or even Joomla... Gotta feel comfortable around the backend of a website, but you get up to speed quickly, as you are currently with Blogger. Many options...
- Paul B said...
hey fellas, off topic but I've found this on youtube, is called: Sleeping Betty
is the first time that I saw the film and I think is amazing
here's the link:
- MLP said...
Speaking as a regular folk, the cartoon history interests me the most.
- Rex said...
You should make a website/blog using a wordpress template with your own domain name. With a wordpress template you can customize it and have different sections and stuff.
- Jeremy said...
I'd be willing to help out.
Like "flashcartoons" says though it will cost money to host your own images/site. but powweb is like 100 bucks a year and unlimited bandwidth.
I think nothing can beat a website for organization. You can hack blogger a bit, to do your bidding, but that takes some tinkering around.
again i'd be willing to help out, let me know.
earplug52 @ gmail.com
- easyipaddress.com said...
I'm a long time fan and reader of the blog, also an amateur web designer and (former) professional system administrator. It looks like some jerk already took johnkstuff.com johnkblog.com etc, but regardless domain registration is cheap, less than $15 a year. Hosting varies wildly in price and quality, so I simply lease my own servers in the under $40/month price range. Unless you have a sys admin running the site and/or some decent ad revenue, I recommend you stick with a blog service as you have now.
For the comic specific site, in addition to tags/labels for the different characters, for quick access, I'd propose more flexible layout options; i suppose some things should be laid out horizontally, for example, or almost like a webcomic with zoom... there are a lot of possibilities, I'm sure you have some ideas on how you'd like it to work. I read or at least skim everything on the blog and think all the sections should still be in one place, however, possibly with the comics only by default.
Hosting and custom web stuff certainly takes some work, and I don't know of any comic specific blog software packages offhand. But ultimately, if you're trying to reach a wider audience and pursue more ad revenue, etc., expanding the blog and comics past what blogger has to offer could be quite successful.
Hrm, sites for ideas.. I suppose people are comfortable with the sort of navigation on a successful site like xkcd.com, however I think it would need zoom or larger panels since the stuff you post is actually worth looking at in detail :)
Sorry for the length, but I hope that's clearer than the previous poster, heh. I'd probably write something custom if this was my project and use whatever lingo I want.
- Steve said...
Hey John, you should check out Wordpress which is alot like blogger. But there are themes that can be used and customized. Many of the webcomic creators use the ComicPress theme. You may be able to find someone to customize a theme even further to better suit your needs. The great thing about it is that it can look like a website but it is primarily still a blog.
Hope it all comes together...
- wwhhaatt?? said...
hey john,
some of my arty friends use indexhibit which I think has a clean format for artists to show their work. Their front page has their links to many examples for you to peruse. I wouldn't use this for a blog, but if you want to refer people to individual images and keep them organized fairly well, this is a way to go.
Other friends have jumped to tumblr which is also image/video-oriented and makes it easier to "reblog" which in their language "allows a meme to spread rapidly across thousands of blogs with just a click" if that is at all important to you.
Hope those links are helpful.
- Paul John said...
I think a blog-type site is your best bet, but it depends on what you want to do with your pure entertainment site (e.g. pay-site, allow commenting, etc). Blogger is great because it's the biggest blog host out there and you already have a huge following on it, but it's pretty limited for many reasons. I totally agree with Rex - I'd suggest looking into Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/) because it's much more flexible as it allows static pages so you can have a proper home page or a whole website.
- Nicolás Rivera said...
Have someone design for you a nice, spumko-like design for a web. If you're thinking of moving towards a wider audience, you should capture them at the very first 5 seconds they're looking at it. Don't limit yourself to the usual, boring, blog look. That doesn't represent you at all.
Like someone else said, the easiest way would be move to wordpress (another blog site, which either lets you have your site right there for free, just like you're doing it here, or have their blog-mechanics in your own, paid or free, hosting space)
(also, just in case, template = a file with all the "design" information -layout, colors, fonts, etc-, that you can just load on any blog.)
Wordpress is way more customizable than blogger, and a well customized blog is more than capable for having the kind of organization and separation you need (and it's free, easier to use than a standalone site, and you can have ads anyway). Once you get the design right, it should be just as easy for you to update as it is with blogger.
But you'll need to get the idea first.
Why not start by sketch it the way you want it? Do it on paper, or on photoshop, making it exactly the way you want it to look, and then show it saying "I need someone who can make this work as a blog template, or whatever".
- kungfukoi said...
I think what Shane Glines has done with cartoon retro, vs. his own personal site is a good model.
Cartoon retro is categorized much like an archival site. Very easy to navigate, and full of content.
- Tyler said...
I'm a web designer and cartoonist (I actually give presentations on what the web can learn from comics storytelling), so maybe I can bridge the gap a little.
There are a few reasons why using something like Blogger or WordPress (Blogger's largest competitor) makes sense for some web sites.
One of these is ease-of-use; they're already set up, and they have teams of designers and engineers working their lives away for the enjoyment of human beings (just like you!) worldwide.
Another reason Blogger and WordPress are cool is that they can grow with your audience. Blogger, which your site runs on, is owned by Google, which is a sweaty, powerful lummox of a company that can take a lot of punishment. If you were to publish a comic on Blogger that multiplied your viewership by a very large number, Google wouldn't even break a sweat; it's too huge and beastly, and the computer power needed to publish your site is like a puny, weak little man. A custom web site needs a lot of thought and smart code to become a Charles Atlas man that doesn't get sand kicked in his face.
Establishing something new has the advantage of total freedom, but that can only be capitalized on if you know what you're doing. It's sort of like model sheets; very strict model sheets will stunt the creativity and character development of a great artist, but crappy artists can rely on and mimic them painlessly. This is true of web sites: A custom site can give web designers a lot more freedom to do much cooler stuff, but if you're uncomfortable with HTML, CSS, JavaScript or other languages, you may grow weary very quickly.
Luckily, Blogger and WordPress have a lot of opportunities for creativity built in. Plenty of web designers out there (myself included) make a living helping folks tailor their blogs to their needs. There are limitations, but you'd be surprised what a great designer can accomplish within them.
Don't hesitate to shoot me an email or follow-up comment if you have any questions. I love the blog, and will be excited to see it's evolution (hopefully it'll avoid having three eyes along the way).
- Freckled Derelict said...
Hi John,
I could help you do something simple like a fancier version of my golden gems blog where the posts and art are sorted. You could include a clickable picture of the artist or art. I find seperate blogs with specific posts really helps. Let me know if your interested.Good Luck!
- C said...
Maybe just put them in separate blogs? Then they can use tags to find stuff easily. If it's a continued story (such as Kaspar and the socks), maybe put a link to the next page and previous page in the post.
- seanpclark said...
I'd be down with volunteering help. I couldn't find a way to email you on the site. I can outline what I can help you with and a resume/portfolio if you're interested.
- Andrés Sanhueza said...
The comics and storyboards are going to be in a single page each one (comic strip like) or a single "chapter" may be composed of multiple pages?
- carlo guillot said...
Hi John
I have a webdesign studio, and someting like this maybe it's what you need for:
Tell me if this suits your needs, and I maybe I can help to make your site.
- Johnathan Mastron said...
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- Dragline said...
It just sucks that you don't have a show out, or one coming soon because it would work great to launch an official website in conjunction with the show. It seems the bulk of your fans have already found you out. You are right though, to get the mind share of regular folks is gonna take pure entertainment, with the technical crap left to the geeks.
- Jack G. said...
I would look at other websites that you like and use that as a starting point for what you want to do.
How complex do you wish to go?
To get to each story or character would require a link. That would add up after a while.
If you want it easy for folks to find stuff, you might need some kind of search function (I have no clue how to do this).
- Taco Wiz said...
Dear Mr. Kricfalusi,
I am 13 years old. Cartoons are practically my life. However, you and your Spumco staff are by far my favorites. I rarely enjoy myself as much as when I re-watch the 1997 George Liquor/Weekend Pussy Hunt cartoons...or even when I just look at these doodles. Your cartoons have the satirical wit and grossness of South Park, the art of 1940s Looney Tunes, and the so-cute-a-13-year-old-boy-goes-"AWWWWW!"-ness of Sesame Street.
Listen. I heard you might do a continuous comic/storyboard series. This would be better than any birthday present I could recieve in my life. Here's my opinion: use this site, Blogger. Make a seperate site for comics and storyboards. I'd rather this happen then win the lottery.
Taco Wiz, your biggest fan
PS: Don't let the flamers get you down. They get off on causing drama.
- Kris said...
Hey John,
I think you should get a website that is part blog, part regular website. You can do this with Wordpress or Movable Type (two different kinds of blog software that are pretty popular).
I do this on my site with Movable Type and I think it works pretty well (pardon the crummy drawings and just look at the organization--this is all done with the blog software). You can do more complicated things than I did with mine, too.
Movable Type also lets you host multiple blogs on the same website, if that also tickles your fancy. So you could have johnk.com/cartoonschool and johnk.com/comics or whatever you want. You could update all of them through a single blogger-like interface so it would be easy, you'd never have to see the code.
Your site will be popular so it will definitely cost money to host if you want anything more intricate than Blogger, though. You could sell ad space through Project Wonderful, and I think that would more than cover your monthly hosting costs. (I've seen popular sites get ad bids as high as $20/day on Project Wonderful.)
I'm willing to help you out a bit if you want. If this will involve a lot of legwork or I'd be maintaining the code in the long-term, I'd want to get compensated somehow, though. It's time-consuming even if it's not super difficult.
Good luck with getting everything off the ground!
- Chris said...
I agree with Rex. Using Wordpress with your own domain name, will feel more like Blogger and make posting much easier. There are lots of custom themes for Wordpress. Here's one called ComicPress.
- Johnathan Mastron said...
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- JohnK said...
"A plain Wordpress blog would work for that, and if you tag the posts correctly, it would be relatively easy to link to and read all the posts in a given category. (ie "Kaspar")"
Well I do that now.
What I don't like about it is that all the posts come up in backwards order, so you end up reading the story backwards.
Unless I go back and redate everything which is a giant pain and doesn't totally solve the problem either.
- LETS TALK CARTOONS said...
try comicspace.com
very easy to set up and its free
- lee artist said...
i'd do a comic blog and keep tis for cartoons. with a website one has to pay the server an anual tip which isnt worth it when a bog works the same so stuff em :)
- Niki said...
I know a little about making websites but not too much to help. you can try adobe Fireworks, I think that was the name, it can work as a "what you see is what you get"
- lee artist said...
i meant stuff those websites they're ripoffs sheese i keep trippin over my own toes on blogs i better zip it for a while :)
- Chris said...
Hey John,
I'm a freelance web designer and programmer and would be happy to volunteer. You've given me so much knowledge over the years it'd be the least I could do. I also understand all of that technical stuff, so it's cool.
I definitely think that'd be a good idea, to break up the subjects of your blog so the pure entertainment stuff is easier to find and look through. Ideally, a regular website would be best. One that's fully customized to what you need and what your audience needs and looks super snazzy. I can help you with all of this. Just recently I had to make a few snazzy sites using that wordpress system everyone keeps mentioning (it probably would be the best solution for you if you went with a custom site). The only downside with a regular website is there's an initial cost to buy your web address (domain name) and to pay for the hosting cost.
Domain's are pretty cheap, 10-20$ and usually can be free if bought in a package deal. Decent hosting usually starts at around 60$/yr and goes up. Anything under that isn't worth considering since you'll most likely be on an inferior setup.
The only problem is you already have such a big readership on this blog and you make such wickedly good entertainment that you'll probably need to invest in a better host to handle all of that extra traffic you'll get.
The other option is to just create a new blog with only storyboards and comics. You could see how well the new site does in terms of readership and ad revenue, and if it starts becoming successful you can always switch to a regular website later.
Honestly, I think a regular website is the only way to go when trying to reach a wide audience composed of 'regular' people. You can't really make a free blog look professional enough so that it captures regular people's attention. And you can't customize it like you would a regular site. I imagine that if you ever had an entertainment site, it would remind me of the feelings I had looking at those old spumco posters of you standing around being molested by your own cartoon creations. It should basically be a place where, upon visiting, the user is thrown into this fascinating cartoony world, a place where cartoon molestations are common place and, in fact, encouraged. That would keep readers on their toes and coming back for more. And you can't really create that using a free website solution.
If you need some more help just send me an email. I'd be happy to advise you on any technical issues or concerns.
- Trevour said...
You have to pay for hosting on Squarespace, but it's pretty slick. But, as "user-friendly" as it may be, there's still some learning involved. It also has a powerful blog importer feature (dates, images, tags, comments, etc.), but I haven't used it.
- Paulrus said...
Hi John,
Glad to see the site is public again.
I'd put another vote in for SquareSpace.
I played around with it and I think it'd do what you want and you won't have to rely on a volunteer to build something you may or may not like.
- RoyceAquatic said...
Hi john
I think you could be able to do everything in blogger, it just needs to be set up right
if you look at my blog here
Ladrones Blog
My friend set up multiple blogs on the left hand side, each blog is from a different user. But you could set it up so that whatever different blog you want to create will link on your main blog.
Everything is the same as on a regular blogger links and history are all there but there is a nice little section where there are links.
I really think you should stay on blogger, it has a community and your familiar with it.
Hope this helps
- Johnathan Mastron said...
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- Vit said...
What I don't like about it is that all the posts come up in backwards order, so you end up reading the story backwards.
There are different readers. One subscribes for RSS updates, other comes from Google search, third comes through a link from one other site. The solution is a good separate navigation. For instance such as on Smashingmagazine website
- Jennifer said...
Hi John,
I have to laugh at your description of how you react to techie info. That paragraph left me scratching my head, and I've been in technology for quite awhile!
Blogs are nice, but I agree that the way the content is displayed may be a little wonky (displayed by date starting from the latest date on), especially if you want to set up stories that are meant to be read sequentially rather than have the person bounce around.
Of all the people who commented on this post, Chris's post is the most accurate re: setting up a web site. Hosting a web site doesn't have to be expensive unless you are getting a web server that is devoted to only your web site. With the less expensive hosting plans, your web site is sharing the same server as other web sites.
Chris brought up a very valid point - there is a MAJOR difference between a web designer and a web application developer, and depending on what you are looking for, you need to pick the right professional.
You need only a web designer if...
You are going to just make a web site open to the public and you don't mind having a "webmaster" who's responsible for managing the content.
You need someone who is also a web application developer if...
- You are planning on setting up a site where you want to be able to manage the content on the system, like you do on Blogger (an example of a CMS).
- You are planning on creating a web site where some or all of the content is only accessible to people who purchased a subscription. The preferred candidate would be someone who has experience with using the Paypal APIs so the subscriptions can be tied with your Paypal account.
I also want to add that a good web designer can not only create a "pretty and snazzy site", but the designer can also plan out the site layout that is not only user friendly, but can also sell your goods (ex: search engine optimization).
If you are going to find someone who will volunteer to the task, you need to find someone who can do both web design and web programming, or find a tag-team of a web designer and a web programmer.
I don't know if I'm going to have a whole lot of time to help with the actual coding of the the site, but I will be more than happy to act as a "technical advisor" to the team that volunteers to help you with the site development. I can give some guidance on how to do things with the web application.
- Frank said...
I don't know if you found what you were looking for, but the solution I'm offering (without getting technical) is a custom post manager.
You could access the manager (much like you do right now with Blogger) and post your articles.
The only difference is that I could arrange the posts the way you want them. If you have a site design in mind, I could create the manager to your needs.
Like some people said, though, is that you need to buy a domain and hosting for the site, but it's affordable.
- L'auteur said...
Do like dummcomics.com
Moi john je crois que le format blogger est trop lourd à lire. parfois je cherche un truc dans ton blog et je ne le trouve pas... Je crois qu'un site à part serait vraiment chouette surtout si tu veux aller rejoindre d'autre pesonne que les cartoonists.
Pense tu pouvoir inclure une page du genre dummcomics.com pour les storyboard?
- algeya said...
I´ve done my site with comicpress
Pilli adventure
paying 80 bucks a year just because my has heavy traffic but you can do it with just 30.
I can help you if you want something similar
- smackmonkey said...
I'd side with the idea of a complete "environment" that you'd get on a real web site. While advertising might pay for it as that is the traditional business model, in the long run an artist's work should (hopefully) be able to pay for itself. Some sort of pay-per-view function is probably called for if animation is ever to get out from under the thumb of corporate America.
- mike3k said...
You should probably use Posterous or Tumblr. Both are really nice for gallery-type sites where you want to post a lot of images.
- Isaac said...
Hello John K,
I hope I've answered your questions. Please view the tutorial I added at the same place as before.
- Michael said...
Do guerrilla style web testing early and often. That's how it's done now-a-days.
I highly recommend reading this seminal introduction to the booming field of Usability Design. "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug is a short, quick, fun read full of wry humor that explains how to make things easy to use.
- Michael said...
I'm willing to help. Here's my site and blog:
- eric said...
Hi John, I would look into Wordpress. You can try it for free at wordpress.org, and if you do decide to host it yourself you can get the multiuser version and make as many sites as you want.
A word of advice as a web dev - you will break things sometimes that would never happen on Blogger. Make sure you and whoever you find are willing to deal with a learning curve!
- RAKninja said...
Oh, something I'm not sure I've seen brought up, free hosting services (like blogger and other google services) are set up to where it is difficult, of not impossible, to earn money by allowing ads. a "custom server" or "remote host" (computer nerd for "website you pay for") on the other hand, is not restricted in this way.
Just wanted to throw that tidbit out there for consideration.
- Isaac said...
Either way, I still want FUNNY CARTOONS on TV.
- Alishea said...
You could blog away like you usually do and have a website with links to all the different category posts of the past. Update it once a week.
There are cheap domain registration & hosting sites like GoDaddy.com, etc. Linking is fairly easy whereas categorizing your brain is not. :)
- Ed Gauthier said...
Please see my brilliant Web Designer comments, which ironically I incorrectly posted on your Kaspar comment thread instead of this one.
BTW, don't dump your blog, don't dump animation, and don't dump anything else. That's the easy way out.
Instead be a MAN, like daddy would demand! Ten-hut, scuttle-but! That ain't funny - drop and gimme 20!
- SibbSabb said...
If you choose to create a site via Wordpress, I can create custom wordpress themes quite easily and quickly.
- Michael said...
There's a number of great ideas here. To find out what will work can be tested before you commit too much time.
When I say guerrilla style testing you can sketch on paper or computer what you think the site should be. Paper prototypes first might be the best. Here's a few subheads from the book "Don't Make Me Think, Chapter 9 Usability Testing on 10 Cents a Day".
If you want a great site, you've got to test.
Testing one user early in the project is better than testing 50 near the end
The importance of recruiting representative users is overrated.
The point of testing is not to prove or disprove something. It's to inform your judgement.
Testing is a iterative process.
Nothing beats a live audience reaction.
... the ideal number of users for each round of testing is three or four at most.
This book is simple and GREAT! It even gives you a script of what to say when testing.
- Michael said...
Oh and the book uses a lot of cartoons to illustrate what's going on.
- Kris said...
"What I don't like about it is that all the posts come up in backwards order, so you end up reading the story backwards."
I know a web designer can change this on Movable Type, and probably on Wordpress, too.
- Pasquale said...
Man, you could run it on WordPress self-hosted, or have a custom Rails app.
Bandwidth isn't that expensive. A webhosting company sponsors me because of my design work. I'm sure they'd fix you up too & provide support if you want.
I think your permalinks need more meaningful bases : http://pasqualedsilva.com/permalink-debate/
it'd help to seperate things out.
Also another thing - your rss feed's images don't parse in the reader, so it's impossible to see image posts without leaving the reader. - A custom CMS(content management system) will let you rewrite the headers.
It'd be super easy to port all of your posts too!
- tobor68 said...
hi john,
i do websites on the side. i'm also an animator.
if you're using mac computers (no windows version) there's an app called rapidweaver (www.realmacsoftware.com). it's theme based and fairly simple to use. it has support for a blog, video, pictures, everything you can think of.
there's lots of plugins to make things fancy and such but the app will do all the hard coding work for you. it's just drag and drop, as the fella says.
i can help you learn it or do it for you, which ever is easier. for free, no strings.
the good thing for us non-techies is that it will scale up if you want to add a plugin or a page, it's all very simple. you can make it quite an involved site if you want or keep it dirt simple.
email me if you want: tobor68 (at) hotmail.com.
good luck! (glad to see the blog back btw!)
- tobor68 said...
hi john, i forgot to mention about rapidweaver; that there's a plugin that'll let you import your blogger blogs, including the archives etc.
tobor68 (at) hotmail.com
- jhalton said...
Hi, If you're thinking of making a new blog shoot me an email and I can do it for you.
By the way, I was at the presentation at Comic Con when you showed all your cartoons and presented the George Liquor story. AWESOME. Keep up the great work.
Let me know if you're interested in the web design
jacobhalton (at) gmail.com
- zmerrill said...
Hello John!
From MySpace before, I have the link ready for you, this time not ruined by MySpace.
- Philip said...
John K. I want to volunteer to make your website. I'm a long time Ren and Stimpy fan and I feel like I could help you with making something really fun and different.
I'm currently working on my portfolio site: www.philipdahl.com which is a good example of how my imagination can wonder when making something creative in a traditionally none creative medium (web design).
Thanks for being you, I've learned more from your blog then I did in college.
- Mike Rauch said...
Hi John. I've gotten so much out of visiting this site. I would love to give you something back. If you're interested in going with Wordpress, I could help. My strong suit is graphic design, information architecture, etc. So if you want help with that side of things, let me know.
Here's a work in progress that I designed.
You can contact me by e-mail at m.s.rauch at gmail.com to talk more.
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