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Heya, I'm very new to CG, and I must say so far everything's been really simple and friendly to get working smoothly. I've been looking around to see if there was an answer to my question somewhere and so far, no luck.
Basically, I have my comic running/updating fine and dandy. But, I wanted to add a second section on the site for "filler" type comics that don't necessarily follow or relate to the main comic. Y'know, for-fun-stuff.
Is there a way to create another series of comics within the same website, preferably using it's own navigation buttons and/or calendar?
Hopefully I made my question clear enough. Thanks in advance for any feedback!
Last edited by AspComics on Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:03 am, edited 1 time in total.
Yeah, the "simple" way to do it is to hand-code it and have it in a sub-folder.
On the other hand, if it's not canon but not filler either, you can just have it alternate with your existing comic. You could have your regular comic Mon to Fri and then have some 'random' stuff on the Sat. The comic "No Pink Ponies" was doing that for a few months.
If you want it totally seperate from your main comic, then there's pretty much two ways to do it.
The first is to write code out for the extra comics with nav buttons and such. That's not too hard, just takes a bit of time. This will work well if the extra stuff is semi-continuous or if it's semi-story driven.
The second is to create a page with a load of thumbnails and just have the comics show up as stand-alone images. That'll work well fro gag-a-day stuff or one-shot comics.
I've done both - I had a second comic that updated irregularly inside my existing comic queue, and I created a webpage that linked to those comics for anyone who wanted to browse the archive. I always updated those comics with an image and an html file, the html file contained a link back to the archive of that comic.
I now have two comic sites on ComicGenesis; with the new siteadmin it's really, really easy to manage. I strongly advise going this route, if you want simplicity.
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