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I think this is a good suggestion. As a single user, you could still theme it while also providing cross-posting of other artists you like. Additionally, your network would act as a "web ring" of sorts.
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You can always make it manually with notepad(++).
No thanks.
Maybe write freely? It's federated and blog format
Thsnks I look imto it.
Wordpress as a framework is kinda federated, you can host your own server if you want to.
You can look into wysiwyg website editors, self hosting a website with aws and s3 is wicked cheap, and other providers like netlify are also inexpensive to a lesser degree.
I will look into that. Thanks. And WordPress doesn't let you tinker with the base code like they used to.
They do if you host it yourself. I've done a fair bit of WordPress development. You can add your own plugins that override base functionality, and if that isn't enough you can just modify the base code directly (but you'll have to reconcile it with updates if you want to update).
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Hugo is nice if you want extensive customization and you’re okay fighting with Go code and templates, a little bit.
What format are you looking for? Something like a comic layout?
Just a way to post my comics on my website and people can click through them. Like how Comicpress worked back in the day.
You could check with @MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works, who created and runs https://bellobear.com/ (and posts them on Lemmy to !bellobearofficial@lemmy.world)
What for?
I use Wordpress for mine. You might check out Substack. Which you can also use it to monetize your comic.
Yeah but then it wouldn't be on my website. And no thanks to WordPress they enshitfication and don't allow you to change the code. So fuck them. Also they destroy Comicpress best thing they had for webcomics.
I get it, but you can pretty much bend Wordpress to do anything you want, even without coding. I for one suck at coding and have found a Theme I use for building all my sites and customers as well.
I don’t know you whatsoever and you don’t know me, so take this with a huge grain of salt, but sounds to me you are looking for a reason not to bring back your webcomic.
No just don't want to use WordPress.
Fair enough. Keep us posted on what you ended up using.
An alternative to Wordpress would be my guess, since that was your question.
Grav CMS?
WordPress can be federated https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/
I have installed wordpress but nothing changed it still shit to work with. Anyone can help me design damn thing without using fucking theams and how I can access the code for the whole thing, not just in a post?
What's your experience? Are you a web developer or in IT?
Neither really did some coding in the past but nothing major. I can do basic Html and messed around with python.
Learn the basics of WordPress first then check out Bricks Builder. It's not free but the best in it's class. If you aren't doing this professionally you'll experience a steep learning curve but once you master it, you can build pretty much anything you want extremely fast.
If you really want to build it in HTML and CSS you'd have to build your own theme.
Thanks for resources and I will take a look, but probably won't use WordPress in the end. We will see.
You need to follow it, but the thing is, you're probably just as well off posting a link from your own account. It comes up as a separate account for me. I don't think the federation there is really worth it
Faircamp is great for this for music - I wonder if it could be pretty easily adapted for art, too.
Nice but not sure how to fix for art.
It would be something to discuss with the Faircamp devs. If Faircamp seems like what you want except you would just plug in images instead of music, then maybe it would be worth pursuing.
If Faircamp doesn't quite seem like what you want, it's not.
The answer is probably "no", but.... Any interest in rolling your own? I once wrote a webcomic engine for a friend, and it was pretty trivial: a simple mod_perl script that grabbed a template and substituted a codeword with the picture the client requested.
Nothing fancy and pretty lightweight. My friend uploaded any new comics via FTP and made some minor changes to the template from time to time. It did the job well.
I can do badic html and css and thought of doing that way but it would look very early 2000. Besides not looking to code and do the artwork. Already do that for one website and its not pretty.
Idk if this would work but bearblog is a nice platform for releasing stuff. You can customize it a lot and the UI is pretty nice.
I'm hosting writefreely with picsur as the image host for my blog. They're pretty lightweight. Otherwise a static site generator like others suggested.
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