Next up, getting an ISBN and barcode for your website. An ISBN is a unique identifier primarily used for books. It’s an international standard, but you do need to obtain it via the country you are publishing and and residing in. Here’s our process in the Netherlands. Plus a short discussion of obtaining a barcode, [...]
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Gravatars or Battling the Mystery Men
<–Wordpress mystery men So you’ve commented on someone’s website and go back to read a few more comments. Suddenly you realize you’re just a faceless mystery man avatar in a crowd of recognizable faces, and on the Internet, your avatar is how people recognize you as you. How can we overcome that disconcerting anonymity? Set [...]
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Fanciful Fonts from Google Font
Breaking out of website standard fonts has always been a challenge. On one hand, you are reliant on your visitor to have a font on their computer when they visit your site; which is hardly guaranteed. On the other, you must create a graphic out of your fancy text, thereby increasing the parts your website [...]
31 Days to Build a Better Blog for Webcomics?
I’ve recently embarked on a 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge (31DBBB) with a group of women bloggers on SITS, and starting the process got me thinking about whether this challenge would benefit webcomics. 31DBBB is a eBook by Darren Rowse, the owner of the wildly successful Problogger and all the various products [...]
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Counting Readers with ComicRank
ComicRank has been around for a couple of years, but in that time it has shown itself to be a handy tool for webcartoonists. Rather than counting unique visitors like several other tools available, ComicRank endeavors to count Readers instead. While uniques are certainly useful for advertising, a reader number is intended to give you [...]
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