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State of the website to-do list
Did some tweaks to the HM archive (the chapter drop-down no longer opens in a new tab, among other things).
Portal page for the Kismet graphic novels. Done! Turned out I had one already, so I just had to tweak it a bit.
Locally hosted Sun-Cutter archive. Er ... getting there. I've done all I can do (basic layout, logo, landing page) before figuring out whether I want to use static, hard-coded pages, as with Hunter's Moon, or some sort of dynamic page setup.
It wasn't a hard decision to go for static pages with HM, because it's completed, so hard-coded pages and a table of contents make perfect sense. With SC, though, I'm going to be adding pages regularly, so I'll need to be rotating pages on a weekly basis from some sort of "new page" location into the archive.
My options, I guess, are a) Wordpress, b) some sort of php/cgi script that I write, or c) hard-coded pages that I update by hand.
I was originally thinking Wordpress (thus far, I am absolutely loving Wordpress for managing my website's front page) but having looked into managing multiple sites under the same Wordpress account, or doing multiple Wordpress installs ... I don't actually think I want to do that? At least not yet? The level of complexity that it looks like it would add is more than I want to deal with for the amount of benefit that I'd get out of it. Maybe later, once I'm more comfortable with Wordpress.
I don't think it would be impossible to write some sort of php tool myself, since it doesn't need to do anything too complicated ... just shuffle the pages when I add a new one. Or maybe do it on my desktop ... some sort of little script that would upload the pages, update links and shuffle things around when I drop a new page on it? I bet I could automate that. I'm not sure if I could schedule posts that way (not easily, anyway) but you can't do scheduled posts in most of the places I'm updating anyway ...
Actually, my biggest problem right now is that the more new locations for the webcomic that I add, the more complicated the update process becomes. Once I get the website figured out, I'll be updating the comic in four places every week:
Plus noting updates on the Wordpress site, though I'm not sure if I'm going to do that every week.
All of this seems like an excessive number of places to update. It seems like I should be able to drop one or two of those, or combine some of them. Tumblr is probably going to be the first to go, if it turns out to be more than I want to deal with, since I doubt if I'll gain much extra readership that way. (But maybe I will! And right now, Tumblr is still in the "shiny toy, fun to play with" stage for me.)
Another possibility, I guess, would be to not use my website as a regular place to update, but as a permanent archive ... so I'd do an occasional website update and add pages in batches, but have the new updates on LJ/DW, WCN, and Tumblr.
Still thinking about it.
Anyway, I'm making progress.
It wasn't a hard decision to go for static pages with HM, because it's completed, so hard-coded pages and a table of contents make perfect sense. With SC, though, I'm going to be adding pages regularly, so I'll need to be rotating pages on a weekly basis from some sort of "new page" location into the archive.
My options, I guess, are a) Wordpress, b) some sort of php/cgi script that I write, or c) hard-coded pages that I update by hand.
I was originally thinking Wordpress (thus far, I am absolutely loving Wordpress for managing my website's front page) but having looked into managing multiple sites under the same Wordpress account, or doing multiple Wordpress installs ... I don't actually think I want to do that? At least not yet? The level of complexity that it looks like it would add is more than I want to deal with for the amount of benefit that I'd get out of it. Maybe later, once I'm more comfortable with Wordpress.
I don't think it would be impossible to write some sort of php tool myself, since it doesn't need to do anything too complicated ... just shuffle the pages when I add a new one. Or maybe do it on my desktop ... some sort of little script that would upload the pages, update links and shuffle things around when I drop a new page on it? I bet I could automate that. I'm not sure if I could schedule posts that way (not easily, anyway) but you can't do scheduled posts in most of the places I'm updating anyway ...
Actually, my biggest problem right now is that the more new locations for the webcomic that I add, the more complicated the update process becomes. Once I get the website figured out, I'll be updating the comic in four places every week:
- My own website
- Webcomics Nation
- LJ/DW (basically one site, since I crosspost)
- Tumblr
Plus noting updates on the Wordpress site, though I'm not sure if I'm going to do that every week.
All of this seems like an excessive number of places to update. It seems like I should be able to drop one or two of those, or combine some of them. Tumblr is probably going to be the first to go, if it turns out to be more than I want to deal with, since I doubt if I'll gain much extra readership that way. (But maybe I will! And right now, Tumblr is still in the "shiny toy, fun to play with" stage for me.)
Another possibility, I guess, would be to not use my website as a regular place to update, but as a permanent archive ... so I'd do an occasional website update and add pages in batches, but have the new updates on LJ/DW, WCN, and Tumblr.
Still thinking about it.
Anyway, I'm making progress.