Equal time

[scarfman]

I posted about the thing I don't like about Webcomics Nation hosting, but that's a pretty minor thing in the big picture, and it's really unfair of me to have done that without mentioning the big plus about WCN:

I believe one of the reasons I didn't update as often in the final weeks or months (or even years) of the first fanfiction site was that it was so much work. I always took a lot of pride in hand-coding my websites myself, with nice simple, easy-to-load pre-1997 HTML (perforce because that's pretty much all the web code I know, yet). But that's a lot of work! Every upload, I had to create or revise the new cartoon's permanent page, the previous cartoon's page, the index page, the archive page; in addition to having done all the same things over at AKOTAS once already that day. And, if it was a "Daily" as well as a "sketch", I also had to create or revise the cartoon's new permanent Dailies archive page, the pages of each of the cartoons chronologically either side of it, and the Dailies' archive page! Consciously I really believed I wasn't thinking of fanfiction jokes as often as I used to, but toward the end I was noticing myself thinking, "Aw, do I really want to fire up the text editor just so I can update a fanfiction gag?"

But, with WCN, once I've drawn the gag I merely need to log in, go to the add page to installment block form, fill in two or three fields and bam! there's Greg House tugging on Superman's cape for all the world to see.

Part of the reason I elected to go with WCN-Free for the triangle fanfiction's new home was a sense of loyalty owed Joey Manley: he also runs Talk About Comics where the AKOTAS message board is hosted for free. Perhaps it's a strange manifestation of loyalty to repay a fellow for free use of his bandwidth by making more free use of his bandwidth. But I can always upgrade to a paid WCN account when qtrhorserider passes the bar and our budget has more room.