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Sortelli wrote:

Howard Tayler wrote:Now start updating your damn strip, Sortelli. YOU HACK! I'VE BEEN WAITING SINCE AUGUST!!! YOU'RE KILLING ME!

Wellllll . . . okay!

I actually have to draw something now, so gimme a bit.

Start updating, and I'll give you linkage. I do so love Elf Only Inn.

--Howard

How is it that all these people, who I haven't seen post here in literally a whole year, suddenly realize that this kind of topic exists and decide to post? PSYCHIC INTERNET POWERS. Starline Vanity 'bots. Somebody mentions Schlock Mercenary, I hear about it from my Vanity Bot (provided I've fed it ...

Sortelli wrote:Thanks for the run-down, guys.

Now start updating your damn strip, Sortelli. YOU HACK! I'VE BEEN WAITING SINCE AUGUST!!! YOU'RE KILLING ME!!

Okay, back to your respective rants, everyone.

--Howard

Rpin sums it up pretty nicely. There were internal-only discussions also, mostly centered around "Chris, can you please shut Bobby up," and within a month or so Chris and Teri had bought him out. But as near as I can tell, Bobby was just annoying. The reason most of these strips left (again, as far ...

A quick tally of page views from the aritsts on IRC got about 10k a day combined. ~75% of this was served up by three comparatively large comics. Combined, that's less than 5% of Schlock Mercenary's daily page views. At what point do you think it's possible for a group of small time artists to pull...

awesome site stat tutorial Nice! That really helps! For some reason, though, my site seems to have twice as many IPs logged every day than there are visits. That happens from time to time. I suspect it means you're being deep-linked much more than you're being read. Check your referrers list toward...

I still have trouble figuring out if hits matter at all, since people put more emphasis on pageviews and visits. Quick tutorial: 1) "Hits" don't matter. They're more a measure of how often your webserver has to respond to requests than a meaningful measure of readership. 2) Unique IPs matter lots. ...

I took the figure for monthly pageviews from the Pages column on the webalizer stats provided by Keen, is that the correct place to look? The column that says "Pages" under "Monthly Totals" That's exactly where to look. If you're doing 800,000 pageviews per month, you will likely make between $100 ...

In my experience, the selection scheme for new Spot comics is murky and unintelligible to the average layman. It appears to be whether or not they like you. It's SUPPOSED to be murky. They pick comics based (at least in part) on what they think will best compliment their existing stable of cartooni...

Keenspace is a free hosting service for webcomics. The only requirements are that you a) Have comic content on your page, and b) use the ***advertisement*** tag in all your HTML files. That way Autokeen can update your pages with ads, and Keenspace can make enough money to continue providing the ser...

steverules wrote: Howard, when are you going to quit skirting the issues and answer the REAL question????
Would you or would you not sex up soap soaperson?

Not. Next question!

Boy, there'es all kinds of room for Q&A here. Lemme try and tackle these in the order of "most interesting to least interesting." Q: Hey, what's up with you and Tycho? You dissin' Keen? A: Between April 12th and 14th I emailed and IM'd several people, including Gav, the eCartoonists mailing list, an...

And one more thing... when you register, you're automatically registered for the comicsday.com forums (http://www.comicsday.com/forums) where questions like this are less likely to be seen as off-topic.

--Howard

The Feature Button is an image we'll use in rotation so that the page has some examples of participating 'toonists art on it. 100x100 pixels is the space you have to play with. In order to upload it, you'll need to log in and then click on "Comics Settings." You'll see your current settings. Now cli...

Quick update -- we're still seeing DNS failures all over the place. It SHOULD have cleared up already, but it's possible that one or more major DNS hosts have not refreshed, and thus the change is not propagating. We're working with our ISP on it right now, just to make sure that the problem is not ...

*peeks in* Erm, I have a question. Does the WCA comic entry have to be cannon? Like, instead of making it at "...enspace.com/20040505.html", can it just be somewhere off to the side, like "...enspace.com/wca.html"? You mean "canon," right? Because with THREE n's you're shooting something. Anyway, n...

phactorri wrote:okay so we do one comic promoting webcomics as a genre and link you guys to that particular strip/page?

is that what this is? *is a little slow*

Bingo.

--Howard "was his name-o" Tayler

orion wrote: Sorry to Howard for trying to imboxify you, your authoring powers are too mighty.

And your buttering powers are indeed formidable. Apology accepted.

--Howard

http://forums.keenspace.com/images/avatars/624105224403d0beb24aca.gif I like the avatar. Reminds me of a certain Unioc Space Pirate I stuck in the newsbox back in 2001... http://www.schlockmercenary.com/gallery/files/Gallery20030613b.gif Yours looks nicer. Those teeth-y things have GOT to hurt, tho...

Sounds cool to me. By the way since he only has two posts should he be put in the box? Just wondering. Go count my posts on the Keenspot forums before you think about putting me in your "box." The only reason my post count HERE is so low is that I haven't used it since the crash. Which, as I recall...