#page updates 💻

[gyutopia]

ahhh 309 butterflies !!!!! thank you all so much for following and interacting with my account i’ll try my best to continue be an account that brings joy and spreads love!! i love youuuu

[screentones-webcomicresources]

Webcomic platforms can help get your comic published when you want something quick and easy to start out! They generally share a few qualities:

They format everything in a basic way so you don't have to do much set up your own space to look nice on web/mobile

They have no fee to publish your comics there, because you are using their web hosting

They may get your comic in front of other readers with mobile apps or online catalogs

If you meet their criteria, you may also be able to find hosting with digital comic stores, publishers, and collectives, and this may get you a bit more in the way of money, promotional opportunities, or editor assistance.

Even if you choose to host your website on its own webhost with a comic CMS, you might also consider finding a platform that aligns with your comic goals and "mirroring" your pages there.

In this post, we look at all the webcomic platforms out there we could find in our research!

This post may be updated as time goes on as new platforms enter the hosting arena, or other important updates come to light.

Questions:

💻 Everyone uses social media, could I just use that as a platform for my comic? - One-shot or strip comics without a continuous story that can be read in any order can do okay on social media, and people have adapted Tumblr to display a series of pages. But for continuous long-form stories, social media platforms are better for keeping your readers updated and general promotion.

📚 Wait, what if I want to build my own website and drive people there? - We have another masterlist of website hosts for that!

🕵️‍♀️What kinds of restrictions can I expect? - Many comic platforms have restrictions on NSFW content, links to other sites, or could be invite/application-only. We've tried to note those on the cards, as well as a list of comic platforms that have predatory business practices at the very end that we recommend avoiding. Always do your research!

Webcomic Platforms

Webtoon Canvas

Tapas

Webtoon Originals

SpiderForest Webcomic Collective

Hiveworks

ComicFury

The Duck

Saturday AM

GlobalComix

NamiComi

DillyHub

Shrine Comics

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

I was wondering if you could explain how the Matrix actually... works? Is it more like a Time Lord artificial afterlife, or just a collection of knowledge? Do you ask your dead housekeeper for her cookie recipe, or do you just access it like Google?

Absolutely!

How does the Matrix work?

Think about Wikipedia.

Now, imagine if Wikipedia had detailed profile pages of every single member of the human race that had lived since its inception in 2001 (around 7.5~ billion individual, heavily detailed profiles).

Then, imagine each profile page had a little downloadable file that was that person's consciousness.

Next, think about how every person's knowledge gained in their life is spread throughout that Wikipedia on every single subject.

Now, think, 'What if Wikipedia had a plugin that could tell you future events based on all the information it has from all these people's experiences?'

Finally, put all this into a cool little weird video game that uses virtual reality.

If you can imagine that, you're pretty close.

💻 Functions of the Matrix

Knowledge Repository: The Matrix acts as an archive, containing the lived histories and profiles of every Time Lord that's lived, and all the knowledge they gained in their life.

Quick Updates: Living Time Lords are biologically connected to the Matrix, able to access the information at will (except if you've been a bad Time Lord, of course). When they die the Matrix automatically creates their profile page when they die, so their entire life goes to the Time Lord Wiki for the benefit of all.

Simulated Reality: If entered, the environment is a simulated reality where the personalities of deceased Time Lords can continue to exist. This can make it seem like a kind of artificial afterlife where you could potentially interact with past or future incarnations of Time Lords.

Predictive Tool: The Matrix generates prophecies and foresees potential futures, guiding Time Lords in making informed decisions about potential timelines.

Physical and Astral Projection: Time Lords can also use the Matrix to project their images across spacetime or within the confines of a TARDIS, communicating across vast distances or even between different temporal phases. Isn't that handy?

🔐 Security and Integrity

Despite its advanced capabilities, the Matrix isn't infallible. It can be tampered with, and its data can be manipulated or stolen, which is considered a helluva crime on Gallifrey. The Matrix also uses various safeguards, like Cloister Wraiths and living fibre optic cables that act like firewalls to protect its most critical data.

🔑 Access and Interaction

Access to the Matrix varies; it can be through physical terminals, via direct neural connections, or by using artefacts. Once inside, users can navigate a realm where physical laws are malleable and where their thoughts can shape reality because anything is possible.

🏫 So ...

In practical terms, if you're deadset on finding that cookie recipe, the Matrix could definitely provide access to that knowledge, either by allowing you to interact with the housekeeper's stored personality or by just retrieving the information like a search engine. Alternatively, you could shirk your holiday in Disneyland and jump right into the Matrix to spend a day being attacked by virtual blancmanges and Victoria sponges until you find what you need.

Related:

What is biodata?: What biodata is and what you can use it for.

Factoid: How do Time Lords biologically stay connected to the Matrix?

Hope that helped! 😃

More content ... →📫Got a question? | 📚Complete list of Q+A and factoids →😆Jokes |🩻Biology |🗨️Language |🕰️Throwbacks |🤓Facts →🫀Gallifreyan Anatomy and Physiology Guide (pending) →⚕️Gallifreyan Emergency Medicine Guides →📝Source list (WIP) →📜Masterpost If you're finding your happy place in this part of the internet, feel free to buy a coffee to help keep our exhausted human conscious. She works full-time in medicine and is so very tired 😴

[simblrcc-site]

Update time~!

It's time for some updates again! It's not a lot, but there is a really cool additional feature now!

Added a proper 404 not found page! It looks something like this:

💻Edit profile info

Suggested by @catherinetcjd - a new way to assign your homepage!

By default, it initially would give members the feed view, and non-members the homepage. However, maybe you're just visiting Simblr.cc as a member for other reasons...

Now by going to: Hi, YOUR USER NAME > Edit my Info, you will find 2 new fields.

Default homepage:

Toggle between setting your desired homepage between:

Home, Feed (default),

Choose (the all post types page),

Downloads browse page,

Stories Browse page

Game Preference:

The game preference option grants you the ability to set by default what your homepage should display!

For example: I set my "default homepage" to "Downloads", and my game to "the sims 2", I will always see the sims 2's mods page when visiting the site!

📩 Tumblr Importer

(Sorry for the reblog spam! I haven't found a better way yet to test it without bothering anyone 😬)

Nothing too big! But the importer now does the following:

Grabs your tag and applies it to the reblog post. That way you should get more views as well! :)

It now automatically grabs the Simblr.cc post URL when you published it. That way you don't need to remember every time to add another link to your downloads.

And that was it! Obviously, if you're missing some features, got some bugs, let me know! I would really appreciate it!

[materassassino]

2024!!

Taking advantage of @emmalostinwonderland's open tag for this one. Yes, I know it's a day late, leave me alone.

I wrote less than I hoped, but worked harder than I expected on what I did write, which to me is a successful year. I didn't manage to write the original thing I wanted, and I think I'll have to just accept that I don't really want to write original things, and just want to write fanfiction. We'll see how that goes this year, I have ideas, it's just actually writing them down that's my downfall. I am also never a very prolific writer, and this year I chose to focus on a very small fandom. But the feedback has been lovely nevertheless! One thing I was slightly annoyed about was the lack of interaction with any ask prompt games I reblogged, which made me sad because I love writing those little things.

(It took ages to fit that screenshot onto that laptop screen and I forgot to fucking save it for future use.)

✨Some Statistics✨

Fics posted: 11 Fics updated from past years: 1 Kudos: 1,635 Bookmarks: 400 Subscriptions: 122 Word count: 101,401 Hits: 17,778 Events participated in: 1 (Star Wars Big Bang)

📝Fandoms I wrote for📝

The Old Guard: 9 Star Wars: 2 Mo Dao Zu Shi: 1 His Dark Materials: 1 (crossover/AU)

👑Most Popular Fic of 2024👑

Vento di Tramontana Fandom: The Old Guard Words: 7,682 Hits: 1,382 Kudos: 190 Bookmarks: 58 (TIL that the stats page shows you private bookmark numbers as well, whereas the fic itself only shows public ones) Comments: 35 Yeah, I'm surprised by this one too, I was expecting it to be Wild Mynock Chase. But overall I'm very glad of it, I enjoyed writing it and the reaction it got.

(I am measuring by kudos, not hits. If we go by hits it is Wild Mynock Chase)

💖Personal Favourite Fic of 2024💖

Even in Another Time Fandom: The Old Guard Words: 26,440 Hits: 1,282 Kudos: 102 Bookmarks: 42 Comments: 28 I was slightly disappointed, but there's still plenty of time for people to read it, of course, and I understand it's not easy subject matter. But this fic means a lot to me personally, so I will likely never shut up about it ever.

💻WIPs I'm taking into the new year💻

Agate and the Sea (the Soulmate AU) Pygmalion AU (very disappointed I didn't finish this at the end of the year) Pride Flag Colours Series Battle of Yavin Anniversary Fic (I WILL FINISH THIS) Various and Sundry Oneshots (Nudity Fic, Bookbinding Fic, Outsider POV fic, Dancing Fic etc) Gentleman Thief AU

Here's to working hard in the New Year on things I cannot discuss with people in meatspace! It's an open tag to whoever wants to do this, but I'm especially tagging @dangerouscommiesubversive, @wingsofbadass and @maered613.

[simtchnamedaustin]

maybe don't start a simblr three days before you leave the country for a month!

the perfectionist and cas enthusiast in me is grieving because reshade/gshade and blender don't work on mac. was on like page eighteen of google trying to find a mac and sims friendly shader 😭

my sim style changed a lot and i'm really excited about that! here are some shitty screenshots of my updated simself. get to know me below the cut🤍

🍈💿🧅austin🦕🥥🧶

i have an unfinished balaclava i need to find time to finish knitting

currently reading "women, race, and class" by angela davis, but i just bought "crying in h-mart"

i love tea, my favorite is this lemon ginger tea my mom got from who knows where

tinted moisturizer > foundation

computer science major💻, but i plan on restarting my college experience because I want to major in media studies

i'm a twenty year old may taurus🐂

at my old serving job we ate for free and I miss the food everyday

current musical genre fixation is old school jazz (ray charles, nina simone, chicago gangsters) and indie/alternative women (faye webster, florence + the machine)

i love food, cooking, watching others cook and i'll try anything once

trying to build a new skincare routine after accidentally shattering most of my skincare

my current show is physical on apple tv, but i'm rewatching yellowjackets with my cousin.

i am a leech and pay for none of my streaming services

despite my simself having hairy arms I actually have next to no hair on my arms. a senior year bio lab actually showed that I have damn near no hair follicles on my arm

i really want to pick up ceramics and zine making as a hobby

i'm insanely good at stretching money

the first time I tried creme brûlée my aunt took us to this expansive traditional french restaurant in paris and I was extremely underwhelmed, but now its come to be my beloved dessert

I love everything fashion, pls don't bother me on met gala day unless it's about the met gala

aquaphor, that's it

i love 🍃, i prefer hybrids, and i love to roll, it's like a form of arts and crafts

[winterandwords]

💻 Big website update, things to read, and Spin Cylinder coming soon!

I'm very tired and very excited, so hopefully this all makes sense and doesn't come out like the aggressively caffeinated gibberish that's buzzing around in my head right now.

The TL;DR is I updated winterandwords.com and instead of having downloadable versions of my stories, they can now be read on the site itself, complete with convenient index pages. I'll be posting future stories chapter by chapter, and you can subscribe there to get notified of new things as they happen (more about that in a minute).

The ML;RA (much longer; read anyway) is I realised I was not enjoying the way I've been sharing my stories. I don't like making Book Product. I don't like finishing a book, throwing it out into the world one time and then pretty much ignoring it forever. I don't like anything about packaging a story into a PDF or an EPUB and putting it up for download. It's not that it's difficult. It's that it isn't fun and honestly I'm trying to prioritise fun a lot more than I have been.

When I'm coming to the end of a story and catch myself dragging my feet, I know I need to change what happens next. I write primarily for my own enjoyment and I have no interest in conventional publishing methods, whether traditional or mainstream self-publishing, or Doing A Sales.

It's super important to me that I get to enjoy every part of the writing and story-sharing process, so if something is giving me the ick, it's time to do it differently.

I've always loved the idea of serialised fiction, posting chapter by chapter and getting to yell at you all every time there's a new bit to read. I've spent forever investigating and trying out different platforms, but none of them hit the spot.

Today I had a Why the fuck didn't I think of this before? moment and realised I can do exactly the thing I want on my own website that I already have and pay for.

The exciting bit is November Breaks and Bridge From Ashes are up on winterandwords.com already and Spin Cylinder is coming soon! Yes, really. SOON. I'm planning to get stuck into final edits now-ish and start posting chapters ASAP.

The other exciting bit is that you can subscribe to get notifications of new stories and chapters by email. I'll post info and links here too, but things get lost very easily on the fast-paced hellsite, even with tag lists (which I really need to get around to setting up).

So if you want to subscribe to the yummy wordstuff, head to winterandwords.com and do the thing.

As ever, if you'd like to support my writing with money, you can do that by making a donation via Ko-fi. There's never any expectation of donations, but please know that I appreciate them so much when you're generous enough to send them.

Before I build a dam across the stream of consciousness, I want to say a huge THANK YOU to all my friends here for being so incredibly enthusiastic about my writing. You're the reason I'm brave enough to include "with characters to go feral over" when I'm talking about my stories online. You're awesome and I adore the hell out of you 💜

[transparentgames]

Hello, lovely fans of Saintess of the Golden Bow!

We’ve got some thrilling updates to share about our journey in bringing our visual novel to life! The team has been working tirelessly on everything from writing new scenes to crafting gorgeous CG art and preparing for our Steam launch. Let’s dive into the latest news from the world of Saintess of the Golden Bow! 🎯💛

​

✨ New Content for George in the Common Route

Our Common Route is nearly polished and ready to shine, but we realized George, our charming Kickstarter Stretch Goal love interest, needed a little more spotlight early on. Anna has written four brand-new scenes featuring George for the Common Route! 🌟

One of these scenes even includes an unforgettable moment where George sweeps Celeste into a graceful dance, brought to life with a stunning new CG. This piece is a collaboration between our talented CG artist, CatRocker15, and our amazing intern, Vita, who did the coloring. Here’s a sneak peek of the CG in progress – we can’t wait for you to experience this romantic moment within the game!

We hope you’re just as eager as we are to see more of George's dashing charm. 💃✨

💻 Full Steam Ahead: Preparing for Launch

Big news on the horizon! We’re preparing for our Saintess of the Golden Bow Steam launch. Currently, we’re navigating the verification process, but soon we’ll have a beautiful, fully functional Steam page ready for you to explore.

Get ready to Wishlist the game and help us spread the word when the time comes—it’ll mean the world to us! 🚀🎮

🎨 Gorgeous Art Updates

The art team has been pouring their hearts into creating the first CGs for our love interests' routes: Levi, Noah, and Elijah. These moments will draw you deeper into their stories and relationships with Celeste. While we can’t reveal too much just yet, here’s a teaser of the magic they’re crafting, as well as a background by our Background Artist, Yui.

Every CG is crafted with so much love, and we can’t wait for you to experience the emotions they bring to the story.

Thank you so much for your continued support and enthusiasm for Saintess of the Golden Bow. Your excitement fuels our creativity, and we’re thrilled to share more updates with you soon.

You can play the demo of Saintess here:

💌 Stay tuned for more surprises and sneak peeks!

With love, The Transparent Games Team

[the-bar-sinister]

Updated the System Directory to include everyone's OnePi selves/kintypes

OnePi specific list under the cut just for easy reference if anyone wants to see it who's here. Questions are okay as always!

😼🔪Sir Crocodile

💻🔪Sir Crocodile

😎🌀 Vinsmoke Ichiji

🔍⚔️ Doflamingo

🐙🧪Galdino (Mr. 3)

💪🔫Vinsmoke Niji

🦇👁️Komurasaki

🕷😎Shanks

🕷🛠️Shanks

🎀💖Luffy

🔫🍳Frankie

👑🍸Tashigi

❄️💪Jinbei

🐸☠️ Daz Bones

🌺😈 Alvida

❤️💪Zoro

🧭👑 Page One

🔬🐝Caesar Clown

🔫🦢Eustass Kidd

♦️🌺Bentham (Bon Clay)

🐺🦀Emperor Kaidou

✨🎀 Uta

💀🎂 Sabo

👿🎭 Usopp

[isilrina]

Happy Art Monday!

I'm thrilled to share my best nine from Cara since joining last month! You probably know those already but this collection features:

Astarion and a friend's OC

2. Liara T'soni from Mass Effect

3. Nyota Washington (OC featuring Meagan Tandy)

4. Erel'Vrae (my BG3 Tav) and a requested OC dancing in front of the Arc de Triomphe

5. Erel'Vrae (my BG3 Tav again) from my story Woven Destinies

6. Takahiro from my story Empires (OC featuring Masuda Takahisa)

7. Erel'Vrae from my girls-only DnD group

8. Gale and Erel'Vrae's hands (BG3 and Woven Destinies fanart)

9. Lawrence (Westworld) with Vivian (my sister's OC)

At the beginning of last month, I've been reposting my work on Cara since the start of this art journey, and now's the perfect time to share where you can find me:

🖼️ My Portfolios: 🖌️ Deviant Art: Drawings and line arts posted with French and English descriptions. 🎨 Cara: Old drawings, with French and English descriptions every Monday and Thursday, will serve as a portfolio in the future.

🛍️ My Shops: 🔴 Redbubble: Stickers, badges, and magnets available to order. ☕ Ko-Fi: For downloads only.

🌐 My Social Media: 🇫 Facebook: French posts on Mondays and stories on Thursday. 📷 Instagram: English posts on Mondays and stories on Thursday. 🧵 Threads: English posts on Thursdays. 💻 Tumblr: Detailed English posts on Mondays. 📰 Bluesky: English updates on new drawings or sticker sets, currently posting on Mondays.

To access these links, look for my bio on the left side of the screen, scroll down until you find the "Social Media" link. It'll open a page with clickable buttons for each platform.

Thank you for your support! Let's continue this creative journey together!

[not-so-bored]

June - week 3

Routine

🛏 Sleeping 8+ hours 🟨🟥🟥🟨🟨🟩🟩 ⏰ Waking up earlier than 10:00 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥 👟 Working ⬛️🟩🟩⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ ��🇱 Dutch lessons 🟨🟩🟥🟥🟥🟥🟦 🦉 Duolingo: Dutch 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 💧 Drops: Dutch 🟩🟥🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 📚 Reading more than 15 pages 🟥🟩🟥🟩🟩🟩🟩 🧠 Meditation: 5+5 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🌐 60-day Language Challenge (which I aim to finish in 6 weeks) by @leavelesstree 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥 🚲 Cycling 🟥 ☕️ Coffee* ⬛️⬛️⬛️🟫⬛️⬛️⬛️ *I enjoy an occasional cup of coffee but I need to keep them occasional, which means: up to three cups a week with one day break in between

Special tasks

Backlog

🧠 Meditation: 5+5 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟥🟥 ❗️🚲 Cycling 🟥🟥 ❗️🫣 Registration at a university in my home country 🟥 🗃 Cleaning my room 🟧 💡 Reaching out to the Philosophy people 🟥🟥🟥 🚉 Buying train tickets 🟩🟩 📩 Something expected 🟩

Current tasks

🐙 Making beaded octopi 🟩🟩🟩🟦🟦 👥 Meeting with a friend 🟩 📊 Designing a planner for my friend 🟩 📞 Dispeling my doubts related to the move (formal) 🟨🟥🟥 📱 Dispeling my doubts related to the move (informal) 🟩🟩 🎟️ Planning a thing for next week (shifts exchange?) 🟩 💻 Online event 🟩 📚 Selling some of my old textbooks 🟩 🩻 Appointment 🟩 🇳🇱 Finding a speaking buddy / language exchange partner 🟧🟨 👔 Updating my CVs (🇵🇱, 🇬🇧, 🇳🇱) 🟩🟩🟩 📺 Watching Biedermann und die Brandstifter (1963) 🟩 ✍️ Editing my WiP 🟥 📃 Drafting my name change request 🟥

[gyutopia]

in the last stretch of my semester and i have a fic lined up and a few more ideas ready to be posted once i’m officially on break!! just a few more days my cutie pies <33

[screentones-webcomicresources]

There are many web hosting companies to choose from if you're taking the plunge into making your own website with a comic content management system (CMS) like ComicControl or Grawlix, a Wordpress comic theme like Toocheke or ComicPress, or a HTML template to cut/paste code like Rarebit. While these solutions are generally free, finding a home for them is... generally not. It can be hard to choose what's best for your webcomic AND your budget!

We took a look at a few of the top hosting services used by webcomics creators using webcomic CMSes, and we put out a poll to ask your feedback about your hosts!

This post may be updated as time goes on as new services enter the hosting arena, or other important updates come to light.

Questions:

💻 I can get a free account with Wix/Squarespace/Carrd, could I just use those for my comic? - Web hosts like this may have gallery functions that could be adapted to display a series of pages, but they are very basic and not intended for webcomics.

📚 Wait, I host on Webtoon, Tapas, Comic Fury, or some other comic website, why are they not here? - Those are comic platforms! We'll get into those in a future post!

���️‍♀️Why does it say "shared hosting"? Who am I sharing with? - "Shared hosting" refers to sharing the server space with other customers. They will not have access to your files or anything, so it is perfectly fine to use for most comic CMSes. You may experience slowing if there is too much activity on a server, so if you're planning to host large files or more than 10 comics, you may want to upgrade to a more robust plan in the future.

Web Host List

Neocities

Basic plan pricing: Free or $5/month. Free plan has more restrictions (1 GB space, no custom domain, and slower bandwidth, among other things)

Notes: Neocities does not have database support for paid or free accounts, and most comic CMS solutions require this (ComicCtrl, Grawlix, Wordpress). You will need to work with HTML/CSS files directly to make a website and post each page.

Hostinger

Basic plan pricing: $11.99/month or $7.99/month with four year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 4 year plans available).

Notes: Free domain for the 1st year. Free SSL Certifications. Weekly backups.

KnownHost

Basic plan pricing: $8.95/month or $7.99/month with four year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 4 year plans available).

Notes: Free DDOS protection. Free SSL Certifications.

InMotion Hosting

Basic plan pricing: $12.99/month or $9.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, and 3 year plans available).

Notes:  Free SSL Certifications, free domain names for 1 and 3 year plans. 24/7 live customer service and 90-day money-back guarantee. Inmotion also advertises eco-friendly policies: We are the first-ever Green Data Center in Los Angeles. We cut cooling costs by nearly 70 percent and reduce our carbon output by more than 2,000 tons per year.

Reviews:

👍“I can't remember it ever going down.”

👍“InMotion has a pretty extensive library full of various guides on setting up and managing websites, servers, domains, etc. Customer service is also fairly quick on responding to inquiries.” 👎“I wish it was a bit faster with loading pages.”

Ionos Hosting

Basic plan pricing: $8/month or $6/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 2 and 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free domain for the first year, free SSL Certification, Daily backup and recovery is included. Site Scan and Repair is free for the first 30 days and then is $6/month.

Reviews:

👍“Very fast and simple” 👎“Customer service is mediocre and I can't upload large files”

Bluehost

Basic plan pricing: $15.99/month or $4.95/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free domain and SSL certificates (for first year only). 24/7 Customer Service. Built to handle higher traffic websites. Although they specialize in Wordpress websites and provide updates automatically, that's almost a bad thing for webcomic plugins because they will often break your site. Their cloud hosting services are currently in early access with not much additional information available.

Reviews:

👎"The fees keep going up. Like I could drop $100 to cover a whole year, but now I'm paying nearly $100 for just three months. It's really upsetting."

👎"I have previously used Bluehost’s Wordpress hosting service and have had negative experiences with the service, so please consider with a grain of salt. I can confirm at least that their 24/7 customer service was great, although needed FAR too often."

Dreamhost

Basic plan pricing: $7.99/month or $5.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free SSL Certificates, 24/7 support with all plans, 97-day moneyback guarantee. Not recommended for ComicCtrl CMS

Reviews:

👍“They've automatically patched 2 security holes I created/allowed by mistake.” 👍“Prices are very reasonable” 👎 “back end kind of annoying to use” 👎 “wordpress has some issues” 👎 “it's not as customizable as some might want“

GoDaddy

Basic plan pricing: $11.99/month or $9.99/month with three year commitment (monthly, 1, 2, and 3 year plans available).

Notes: Free 24/7 Customer service with all plans, Free SSL Certificates for 1 year, free domain and site migration.

Reviews:

👍Reasonable intro prices for their Economy hosting, which has 25GB of storage 👍Migrated email hosting service from cPanel to Microsoft Office, which has greater support but may not be useful for most webcomic creators. 👎 Many site issues and then being upsold during customer service attempts. 👎 Server quality found lacking in reviews 👎 Marketing scandals in the past with a reputation for making ads in poor taste. Have been attempting to clean up that image in recent years. 👎 “GoDaddy is the McDonald's of web hosting. Maybe the Wal-Mart of hosting would be better. If your website was an object you would need a shelf to put it on. You go to Wal-Mart and buy a shelf. It's not great. It's not fancy. It can only hold that one thing. And if we're being honest - if the shelf broke and your website died it wouldn't be the end of the world.The issue comes when you don't realize GoDaddy is the Wal-Mart of hosting. You go and try to do things you could do with a quality shelf. Like, move it. Or add more things to it.” MyWorkAccountThisIs on Reddit*

Things to consider for any host:

💸 Introductory/promotional pricing - Many hosting companies offer free or inexpensive deals to get you in the door, and then raise the cost for these features after the first year or when you renew. The prices in this post are the base prices that you can expect to pay after the promotional prices end, but may get outdated, so you are encouraged to do your own research as well.

💻 Wordpress hosting - Many of the companies below will have a separate offering for Wordpress-optimized hosting that will keep you updated with the latest Wordpress releases. This is usually not necessary for webcomic creators, and can be the source of many site-breaking headaches when comic plugins have not caught up to the latest Wordpress releases.

Any basic hosting plan on this list will be fine with Wordpress, but expect to stop or revert Wordpress versions if you go with this as your CMS.

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Turning TumblrTextTint Into An Extension - Part 3

Wednesday 5th April 2023 | previous post

I am super happy with my progress in making browser extensions! I am using my TumblrTextTint as my guinea pig project to convert into an extension and things are going great!

Firefox

The first browser I tested was Firefox, which is my default browser! I made a few versions of the extension and now it works amazingly! It's now uploaded to the Mozilla Add-ons website - which you can view here!

Chrome

The next browser I tested on was Chrome. It is similar to how you upload extensions on Firefox, but I had to change my .json and JavaScript code multiple times because I had to use a newer version of the manifest.json file (Manifest V3) per Google Chrome's request. Besides that, everything ran okay from the developer side so I uploaded it and now I'll have to wait for the review!

Unlike the Firefox version (because it wouldn't work on Firefox for some reason), I made an onboarding page for when the user installs the extension, they get to see a page to say the installation is a success and guides the user to the instructions page.

Microsoft Edge

The laptop I use for work has both Chrome and Microsoft Edge on it so I thought why not learn how to upload it on Microsoft Edge Addons too! I read and it said that Chrome and Microsoft Edge are connected in a way so minimal changes to your extension's code are needed. Now I've uploaded it and now I waiting for a review to say it's published!

Comparing the different browser's process experience

Being that I used Firefox first, I had to learn everything from scratch! The Developer's Hub, where you organise your extensions and themes, is pretty straightforward! Easy to upload and update new versions of your extension. It took around 9 hours for my extension version 1 to be approved but whenever you update it, it would only take around 10-20 mins for nice approval! So, a good 8/10!

Google Chrome came in confusing me. It talked about my manifest.json file's version is out of date and that I need to switch from manifest V2 to V3. Fair enough, the documentation for the migration was somewhat confusing so I had to use places like StackOverflow for help. Plus I decided to add the onboarding page I wanted to use for Firefox on this version of the extension so a bit of extra work! The Developer's Hub is easy to use too! I'd rate the experience a 6/10 - you do need to pay a one-time payment of $5 (£4) to be allowed to upload any extension to the Web Store!

Lastly, Microsoft Edge was also a bit confusing on where their actual 'create an extension' page was located. I looked everywhere for 20 mins looking for it and turns out it was on the hamburger menu to the left... silly me for not looking there. You do need to sign up to their Microsoft Partner Center to be able to upload (free). Besides that, everything was the same and now I am waiting for the approval! I'd rate the experience an 8/10 too!

Thanks for reading! 🥰🙌🏾💻💗 I'll share some links involving this mini-project! :

The GitHub Repo for TumblrTextTint - LINK

The official website for TumblrTextTint - LINK

Want to add the extension to your Firefox browser?* - LINK

Want to learn how to make your own extension for Firefox?** - LINK

* I will make add the links for the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge when they are approved and published

** I will make Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge versions of the tutorial in the near future!

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