More Details on Webhosting Service from Modern Tales

Webcomic Nation is a new hosting service from Joey Manley (currently in beta testing). Manley provides lots more information in a thread at Talkaboutcomics.

In a nutshell though key features of the new service include:

(1) a syndication service allowing other sites to display your content through a bit of HTML code (using a javascript file) (Xerexes: I wonder if it will support RSS feeds?).

(2) a newsletter service for distributing content through email.

(3) a greeting card feature to send electronic “cards.”

(4) a blog-like journal feature.

(5) a bookmark feature for readers allowing them to save their place in reading through archives.

(6) there will also be a portal for comics using the service that will promote hosted comics. (Manley has posted a work-in-progress screenshot of the portal page.)

(7) support for subscriptions and micropayment options for comics.

Other interesting innovations include ongoing renaming of comic files in system to defeat in-lining thieves.

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Wandering webcomic ronin. Created Comixpedia (2002-2005) and ComixTalk (2006-2012; 2016-?). Made a lot of unfinished comics and novels.

4 Comments

  1. Pet peeve, but why is the advertisement the largest thing on the page?

  2. From reading the thread it looks like there will be no ads inposed on accounts (available to use if the account holder wants to – I assume that means they would collect from it).

  3. Oops — above reply was meant to go to zwol.

    We won’t be collecting money from banners on user’s pages. If users want to put banners on there, they will have to be premium members to get our automatic banner-management software installed. (If they don’t want to pay the premium price, they can hard-code banners, but they won’t have clickthrough or view statistics available). Basically, a user’s page is his/her own, they can sell banners to whomsoever they wish — and collect the money themselves. We won’t be involved in selling banners.

    Joey
    http://www.moderntales.com

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