Site re-launch & Hosting webcomics

I finally felt like doing something with the site so it’s been remade just about entirely and now has sections for some of the stuff I’ve made, mainly some webcomics and my games. In the future, near or far I’ll probably be adding some more of my projects but for now I wanted to at least have something here instead of having the site collecting dust.

I liked the previous design of the website but it was a little hard for me to customize or add anything to it really, I learned to use this theme + add-on combo from the Yuri Kissaten website and now it’s my comfort zone. I tried though!!! And now that I switched to this one it’s a lot easier for me to keep adding stuff sooo.

Eventually I plan on hosting my webcomics directly on this website but it’ll depend on whether I can find something that makes it actually easy and convenient, as so far everything I’ve found is like "Yeah for every page I add I go into the site’s code and edit the JavaScript so I can go to the next page and then I have to add the CSS to every single page so they display correctly and then I have to go to the site’s HTML and-"

(And then in the end it doesn’t even work for the desired purpose)

Then there’s the “Put it on WordPress and make each page a new post and manually link to the previous/following page” method and while a lot more convenient it’s still not ideal, not to mention that many of the things I want to do would be plainly impossible or needlessly hard to pull off this way.

Right now most of my stuff is hosted on MSPFA. It, much like any traditional webcomic hosting site, has an easy method of uploading stuff where you don’t need to get your head deep into that coding horsecrap, MSPFA works for the multimedia stuff and otherwise there’s stuff like Tapas, though I haven’t used it in a hot second and apparently became A Webtoon Alternative and at that point might as well go to Webtoon (or use both to reach slightly more people).

Buuut the point is that I want to have it all on my own website firstly because things hosted on other people’s websites are not eternal, as proven time and time again by old broken MSPFAs (see: my efforts to preserve old webcomics there) or taken down Webtoons (see: random YouTubers deeming a random comic to be le problematique and sending their audience to mass report it); and secondly because as a creator it’s simply better to have your own stuff in your own place, typically most people might make do with other websites but when you have your own, and you intend to add flair to how you present your stuff, your own website is the way to go.

But apparently to do that you have to be a wizard or be able to put up with increasingly more obnoxious-to-work-with code like WHAT do you mean I have to add each new page onto an HTML file like what do I do when my comic has 500 pages I gotta navigate that thing every time and noooooooooooooooooooooooooo, why can’t this be easier.

Wake me up when there’s an easy drag-and-upload method, and also nearby pages are pre loaded, as a reader I hate it when I have to load the whole site again for every page and then wait for the 800 MB image file to load in, most modern platforms have some method of pre loading pages, but when it comes to templates and stuff for indies everyone seems to have it load only when you are on the page, as a reader I hate to experience that and as a creator I’d hate to be that.

Ah well.