Archive for the ‘Tips and Tricks’ category

Those of you who catch my livestream (oh look shameless link) know that I can have a bit of a temper, especially when it comes to internet critics and comics. If you caught it last night, you heard my basic philosophy: critics can go screw themselves. BUT. That statement needs clarification. Webcomic artists, writers and [...]

I’ve been meaning to write this article for quite sometime. Those of you who, uh, follow ME on Twitter know that I was accepted into grad school, Roswell Park in Buffalo (part of the SUNY system) for Interdisciplinary Biology. I have been busy. I apologize for the lack of articles. But getting back to business, [...]

Here it is, as promised. Those of you considering going to conventions for the first time, or even you convention veterans, here’s my experience from the Corn Hill Arts Festival, from the beginning. I hope my experience can help all of you at your next convention. Keep in mind, Corn Hill is NOT a comic [...]

In the tradition of Kez, who is often more honest than she should be, here is my review of Ka-blam…in partial story format. So, firstly, there’s this long-time digital artist named Kez. Now, this Kez person, she has never really made anything for print. Her main comic cannot even BE printed, because she designed it [...]

Last week I finished a comic short story titled Not Alone. It was an origin story for characters yet to appear in my main comic, The War of Winds. About half-way through making it, I realized I probably ought to have a bridge between the end of Not Alone and the beginning of The War [...]

A couple months back, folks on TWCL banded together to bring more attention to this absolutely loverly webcomic Galaxion, by Tara Tallan! This support was not asked for, and indeed, came as quite the surprise to Tara I believe, but was quite a success while it was going! People added her banner to their footers, [...]

I really felt like WRITING something today. Been doing art stuff non-stop. A lot of people when they are first starting out with their website, and find out how to navigate their first FTP, and change their site over and over with new images and new pages…often one day sign in an have NO IDEA [...]

In my previous article on webdesign, the point that I wanted to get across was that you need to design a site before you jump into coding that site.   Well, that’s all well and good, but how do you know what you should have, and where you should have it? Webdesign is often a simple [...]

Webdesign for the Beginner

March 25th, 2009

I’m going to talk about designing this week, not coding per se, but designing: placement, colors, procedure. Today’s article I guess I would file under “procedure,” though I hate that term, because procedure sucks even when it has its purpose. The purpose of procedure today is to save you time and make your life easier. [...]

As I finish up ComicDish’s review for next Monday, here is a short article for all those comic creators out there who double as webdesigners.  I’ve been building my own sites since I started my webcomic in 2004. I started with HTML, and this past year, moved to CSS. Anyone in that same transition having [...]