Updated Comicpress!
September 29th, 2008
Tonight I have, with the help of my father, updated comicpress. Comicpress is run by tyler martin and can be found at his website. Tyler also helped design the PvP site and is part of Lunchbox Funnies. The comicpress 2.5 theme comes with many different types like a normal one, a graphic novel one and a 3 column one for examples. I have been trying them all. This one seems good. I want to at some point get a good colour scheme here.
Yeah, ComicPress can be hard to tweak. Go into your CSS, it looks like you have #column set to wide.
Turned out that there is a background.png image that is used to make the, well, background. Note it has shading at the edges which are currently not lining up with the header and footer. What this means that if you change the body width in the stylesheet which Ben knows what to do you have to use Gimp or equivalent to resize the background.png image and ftp it back to the site.
I do *not* approve of the five themes within a theme, at least the way it has been implemented. Changes such as the background image or the comicpress-config.php (very important now) would probably be better in a common location which, to be fair, would be difficult to implement.
Thanks guys. The site seems pretty good now. All help was appreciated heaps.
You’re only running one theme at a time, so you don’t need the other four on your server. Over at SCC, the strips have the 3-Column Themes in their own installs while the SC Classics have the taller Graphic Novel theme in its installs.
Five seperate themes looks confusing, but you only need to upload and install the one you’re going to use (by the looks of it, you’re using the 2-Column Theme) and the rest don’t need to exist on your server.
Yeah, I’m sure being able to download each different theme itself would be good but it was fun to just try it out and see what it looked like for each theme.