We’re well into the second half of the year, believe it or not. Now’s a great time to start planning the rest of your 2013.
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Having wrapped my first Kickstarter campaign, I’m finding that I’ve learned an awful lot about crowdsourcing — and webcomics in general. I want to share one of those general lessons with you today. It’s about gauging the significant of reader feedback.
This is a topic we’ve talked about here before under many headings — whether to allow negative comments on our site; gauging reader interest in a new piece of merchandise; and so on. And I thought I had a good handle on it. But this Kickstarter proved otherwise.
The issue started when I heard repeated comments about how great it would be to include PDFs of the original How To Make Webcomics book in the reward tiers. And, fresh off achieving my $10,000 goal in three days, I was eager to do whatever I could to reward the people who has rewarded me. Of course, that book is not mine to make unilateral decisions over, but a short time later, I included a PDF of the book at a special reward tier.
I placed it at a level that would benefit the vast majority of my supporters. And some of them took advantage of it. But it was, by no means, a groundswell. That should have been my first tip-off.
I received this response from a commenter who listed a first name, but was otherwise anonymous (shoulda been my second tip off).
Hi, several people, including myself, would like to know: Will people who pledge more than $29 will get the PDF of How to Make Webcomics?
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Here’s another bit of advice that I’m able to pass along having done my first Kickstarter campaign.
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.
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Chicago Comic Con: Sat., Aug. 10, 4-5:30 p.m.
More than ever, aspiring cartoonists are looking towards the Web as a means of distribution and business. But does your comic really have what it takes to be successful online?
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Here’s another handy Word Press tip, aimed specifically at Comic Easel users (but possibly useful to users of other Themes).
Good Adsense requires two pieces of code to work. One, the ad code, gets places where you want the ad itself to display, and the other, the header code, gets placed in the header.
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When I was forced to change Content Management Systems recently, I had the opportunity to give my existing Web design a couple of tweaks. And one of the most important ones was ad placement.
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There’s a new site you’re going to want to bookmark. Work Made For Hire is the Web presence of Katie Lane, a lawyer who specializes in comic artists and other creative professionals. From the site:
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As we mentioned in last week’s Ten Tips for WordPress newbs piece, you never want to make changes to your WordPress theme. Instead create a Child Theme and makle changes to that.
It works like this. The site uses all of the coding from the theme except for the coding found in the Child Theme. The Child Theme is a selective over-writing of the original theme.
Anything you do to change your site through the original theme will be lost the next time the theme developers release an update.
Here’s how to create a Child Theme.
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Today’s the last of the Hitch It or Ditch It Hot Seats. Same rules as always. I’ll lool at your webcomic and point out one thing I think is strong and another I think could use work. Then the members discuss.
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This post was generously submitted by member JJ Sandee (who is available to offer tech support).
This guide is not meant to ‘sell’ anyone on using Comic Easel. This is meant a guide to easily installing it within any theme thus allowing more freedom in the look of your site.
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