The New Site

Well, the new comics site is sewn together enough to loose it on the countryside.

The site is a bit of an experiment. I was curious to see if a variety of free web services could be stuck together to create a cohesive, consistently branded user experience. I believe the answer is "mostly-ish".

This blog is created and maintained using Blogger and an RSS Feed to pull it into this site. The "Emporium" is a free Cafe Press shop (that allows little to no customization of the look and feel). There is video hosted by YouTube and I'm running Google AdSense advertisements.

After evaluating a number of options for publishing comics, I chose to hack together my own system. I wanted more flexibility than any existing free service seemed able to provide. In fairness, if I had taken the time to set it up and learn, ComicPress, an add on to WordPress, may have been an excellent tool, but would still require a lot of custom coding.

I believe the new site publishing tools will allow me to spend much less time managing the site and much more creating content. I hope you enjoy the comics and stuff offered to you by this clumsy brute of loosely assembled technologies.

Tim