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I. Thou shalt have a regular update schedule. It mattereth not if it be daily, M-F, or once per week, so long as thine readers know when and where to look for the comic. Thou shalt remember this schedule and keep it holy, or inform thy readers why.
II. Thou shalt put the most recent page or strip of your comic on thy front page, above the scroll, so that people mayest know that thou have updated.
III. Thou shalt not have a "cover page" which people must click through to find thy comic, save if thou hast naughty bits in thine artwork, in which case thou hadst damned well better have a screener page to allow visitors to "opt out", lest ye find yeself hauled to ye olde gaol.
IV. Thou shalt have a means of navigating the older strips in thy comic aside from scrolling backwards one at a time.
V. If thou doest commissions, or special messages in place of a comic update, thou shalt not maintain these artworks in the same archive as thy comic, where they shall break up the story. Verily, this is what separate Gallery pages are for.
VI. If thy strip hast a regular cast and a regular story, thou shalt have a Cast page or other such resource on thy site so that thy readers mayest know what ye olde hell be goingest on.
VII. Thy website shalt not break thy readers' browsers. Learnest ye HTML and keep it simple.
VIII. Thou shalt not pretend that Yahoo Groups, LiveJournal, DeviantArt, etc. pages constitute a proper site for thine comics. Yea, I say unto you, web hosting is cheap, and free hosting options abound on proper sites; begrudge ye not the time and expense.
IX. Thou shalt treat thine readership with respect and politeness, lest the blessings of ye Donations Button be withheld.
X. If ye keepest not any or all of these commandments I through IX, then thou shalt produce artwork, stories, jokes, tragedies, or whatever thy comic may contain of such a quality that people will readest it anyway; verily, I say unto you, it had better kicketh it the ass.
II. Thou shalt put the most recent page or strip of your comic on thy front page, above the scroll, so that people mayest know that thou have updated.
III. Thou shalt not have a "cover page" which people must click through to find thy comic, save if thou hast naughty bits in thine artwork, in which case thou hadst damned well better have a screener page to allow visitors to "opt out", lest ye find yeself hauled to ye olde gaol.
IV. Thou shalt have a means of navigating the older strips in thy comic aside from scrolling backwards one at a time.
V. If thou doest commissions, or special messages in place of a comic update, thou shalt not maintain these artworks in the same archive as thy comic, where they shall break up the story. Verily, this is what separate Gallery pages are for.
VI. If thy strip hast a regular cast and a regular story, thou shalt have a Cast page or other such resource on thy site so that thy readers mayest know what ye olde hell be goingest on.
VII. Thy website shalt not break thy readers' browsers. Learnest ye HTML and keep it simple.
VIII. Thou shalt not pretend that Yahoo Groups, LiveJournal, DeviantArt, etc. pages constitute a proper site for thine comics. Yea, I say unto you, web hosting is cheap, and free hosting options abound on proper sites; begrudge ye not the time and expense.
IX. Thou shalt treat thine readership with respect and politeness, lest the blessings of ye Donations Button be withheld.
X. If ye keepest not any or all of these commandments I through IX, then thou shalt produce artwork, stories, jokes, tragedies, or whatever thy comic may contain of such a quality that people will readest it anyway; verily, I say unto you, it had better kicketh it the ass.
