Comments on: WordPress or Blogger?

By: Ralph Contreras

Ralph Contreras — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:20:33 +0000

I like the new look to your blog. Awesome! It looks very dynamic! Great job. On the debate between Blogger and WordPress. I'm a big fan of wordpress, that's what I use form my own blog.

-Shazam!

By: Jason Brubaker

Jason Brubaker — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:30:44 +0000

Hey Drezz, Wow, the first one to comment on the upgraded reMINDblog. Thanks for all your advice.

By: Drezz

Drezz — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:31:04 +0000

Hey Jason – thanks for the plug. Keep hammering away at these fantastic pages. With a bit of patience and some elbow grease, things will fall into place quicker than you think!

Good luck!

By: Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:02:25 +0000

Personally I find if it's not a blog I don't tend to follow it. It just drops off my radar, no matter how much I love the content. I suppose it depends if you want the site to best display your pages (WordPress) or just track the progress of their creation (Blogger).

By: Yours Truly

Yours Truly — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:38:53 +0000

Ah, the ancient debate over of WordPress vs. Blogger.
I myself have been using Blogger for my comic for two years now, and started playing with self-hosted WordPress for the new project I’m working on.
The main advantages that I see with Blogger are that it’s free, and fairly easy to use. But WordPress is much better, in so many ways:
• You can use ComicPress. Only after struggling for months with customizing a Blogger template and scrapping for scripts that will give you only part of ComicPress can do, do you learn to appreciate the true value of ComicPress.
• Changing layouts is so much easier with WordPress. In comparison, try changing a blogger template after you installed several Widgets and scripts pnto it. The problem with the Blogger template is that the layout (CSS) is on the same file as the content (widgets, scripts). In WordPress you can edit several different CSS files, without changing the content.
• Blogger can be fine with displaying images as long as you stick with your blogspot domain (it uses Picasa for that). But once you switch to your own custom domain, you get annoying restrictions on image sizes that can be displayed in your blog from Picasa. Then you have to revert to using such services as flickr or tinypic. Wordpress doesn’t really solve this, but self hosting does – you’ll store your images on your own host (and ComicPress will handle the technicalities for you).
So, judging by my own experience, I’d say self-hosted WordPress is better, definitely. And it’s worth every penny. The only reason I’m still using Blogger for my comic is that I already managed to have something good working there, and I don’t have spare time to invest in migrating everything to WordPress. But as mentioned, for any new projects, I’ll go with self-hosted WordPress... as long as I can afford it :-)
Good luck!

By: Jason Brubaker

Jason Brubaker — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:53:49 +0000

I came to the decision after reading Mouse Guard issue #1 shortly after it came out. I was so inspired by the simplicity of the story and how every page was a work of art. I found as many of them as I could at the time and noticed that there was a max of four panels per page. This seemed to keep each page simple and clean because it wasn't cluttered trying to jam 14 story points into a page. Instead the reader could just focus on the simple point of the page. That's the main reason I chose 4 per page. I think it all depends on what you want to covey as a writer/artist in your GN.

By: Jason Brubaker

Jason Brubaker — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:48:56 +0000

Scheier – Thank you once again!Erich – I will just subscribe to your RSS feed and be emailed when you post something new. Don't worry, I will definitely be staying in touch. After all, how many of us are trying to make our own GN and posting the progress.

By: Erich Reynard von Ha

Erich Reynard von Ha — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:37:23 +0000

you would certainly be missed!and of course i would follow your new blog if you switched but how could i tell you when i finally got my pages uploaded?

By: Jason Scheier

Jason Scheier — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:44:13 +0000

nice spread j

By: Stephen Thompson

Stephen Thompson — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:41:22 +0000

Nice page, the repetition works well. I like the idea of making rules for your project but I'm curious why you decided on a four panel limit per page. Was it an arbitrary choice or do you think pages function better with a low panel count?