A New Comic Management System?
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2023 10:27 pm
Fill out the poll on google forms!!
Soon I will be required to do an ambitious project for a class that I'm in, and I figured why not make it something that actually has some utility in the real world! Heck, getting frustrated with the systems out there and not being able to do much is what led me to even learning web development in the first place, so it's time to act on that.
The options out there right now for self hosted comics are uh...limited, to say the least. And mostly severely out of date. There's wordpress, but it's bloated and cumbersome and most plugins used for webcomics aren't maintained. There's Grawlix, which is pretty lightweight but was abandoned by its creator and took serious efforts of people more skilled than I to even get it functional again. There is also Comic Control, which seems to have had some behind-the-scenes issues and isn't exactly the most intuitive.
My plan is to make something that will be very accessible to those who aren't web savvy and allow tons of freedom to those who are. It will be built on a framework called Django, which uses python as its code base. But that's just the under-the-hood type code that most people don't even need to touch. The front end stuff would require no PHP knowledge like the other systems. You just need to know html and CSS. If you want to get advanced, all you'd add is a small handful of keywords for Django's templating language.
The form listed above doesn't allow for much discussion or views of plans, so please use this thread to go more in depth about what sort of functionality you'd like to see in your management systems for your comics.
Soon I will be required to do an ambitious project for a class that I'm in, and I figured why not make it something that actually has some utility in the real world! Heck, getting frustrated with the systems out there and not being able to do much is what led me to even learning web development in the first place, so it's time to act on that.
The options out there right now for self hosted comics are uh...limited, to say the least. And mostly severely out of date. There's wordpress, but it's bloated and cumbersome and most plugins used for webcomics aren't maintained. There's Grawlix, which is pretty lightweight but was abandoned by its creator and took serious efforts of people more skilled than I to even get it functional again. There is also Comic Control, which seems to have had some behind-the-scenes issues and isn't exactly the most intuitive.
My plan is to make something that will be very accessible to those who aren't web savvy and allow tons of freedom to those who are. It will be built on a framework called Django, which uses python as its code base. But that's just the under-the-hood type code that most people don't even need to touch. The front end stuff would require no PHP knowledge like the other systems. You just need to know html and CSS. If you want to get advanced, all you'd add is a small handful of keywords for Django's templating language.
The form listed above doesn't allow for much discussion or views of plans, so please use this thread to go more in depth about what sort of functionality you'd like to see in your management systems for your comics.