When last I left you, I had secured hosting for my little secret project, and I had created a wireframe for it. I settled on a technology, a content management solution, and had a really rough business model in mind. Well late last night I launched the beta version of the site. Presenting: Comic Lift,… Continue reading Secret Project part 2: The Live Beta
Tag: All New Comics
Secret project part 1: Hosting
I’m working on a new little side project which I should be able to announce next week at some point. My plan is to create a Web 2.0 Digg style site and do it in under 20 hours from start to finish. This whole venture will be detailed here on RadicalHive, but I won’t let… Continue reading Secret project part 1: Hosting
Free Comic Book Day…costs a lot
Free Comic Book Day. I’m not sure if it’s a success or not. If we measure success by “We spent lots of money and didn’t get see any obvious returns, but people got free stuff”, then it was an overwhelming success. If we measure success by sales, it was about as unsuccessful as anything could… Continue reading Free Comic Book Day…costs a lot
What got me hooked on comics
In honour of Free Comic Book day (this coming Saturday May 3rd at All New Comics), I thought I’d talk about what got me hooked on comics. Here they are…these pictures are of the three comics that first got me. I had read comics before, my uncles Donnie and Ronnie had comics, but it wasn’t… Continue reading What got me hooked on comics
Of comic shows and hometels
This past weekend was the Toronto ComiCON Fan Appreciation show on Saturday and Sunday at the Metro Convention Centre, Pete and I were there with All New Comics and four tables of our stuff. It was also a chance for Kaylin, Char, and I to have a little mini-vacation in downtown Toronto. Friday night I… Continue reading Of comic shows and hometels
Whither All New Comics?
The new All New Comics is indeed still coming soon, but it’s looking like a mid-April launch at this point. Right now I’m trying to clean the site up for a server move, and the redesign took a little longer than last weekend. I was in good shape until the “hack attack”, and that’s put… Continue reading Whither All New Comics?
Comic books are dead
Printed comic books have existed for most of the 20th century, and in one form or another probably since the invention of the printing press. There is anecdotal evidence of comic book like art forms throughout the ages, with even Egyptian hieroglyphics being distant cousins of the modern comic. So it may be presumptuous of… Continue reading Comic books are dead
All New Comics hacked
First off, don’t these stupid little script kiddiez know who they’re dealing with??? Seriously. Yesterday morning someone who I assume to be Charles Eckholdt or ceckholdt@comcast.net (and yeah, I hope the spambots harvest your stupid little email address Charles) changed the “send payments to” address in my shopping cart program from the regular All New… Continue reading All New Comics hacked
What I’m working on – The web edition
I’m working on a ton of cool stuff at work (as always) including a totally revamped search engine, a new version of our Vendor site, and a new sales process, but at home I’m working on a couple of web projects as well. One of them you’re reading right now, Radical Hive is progressing, although… Continue reading What I’m working on – The web edition
Hating my hosting provider
All New Comics has been up and down more often than a kid on a trampoline lately, and this week I finally had enough with some serious database troubles. After quite a few years with my server sitting in Florida, I’m finally moving it back to Canada where it belongs.