Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Campaign to Get Paradoxium Returns it’s Own Domain


So, here’s the deal! I’m looking into getting Paradoxium Returns its own domain, meaning its own website. It’ll be the final step into completely and entirely owning it today, as earlier, I gave it a Creative Commons license. However, this is where things get a little complicated.
I’ve been looking at the webcomics that I follow (specifically Sandra and Woo/Gaia,Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Lifexkcd, and Romantically Apocalyptic), and from what it seems, they all like using WordPress. Now, here are the issues with that. If I use WordPress, these things happen: I don’t get the option of excluding ads (sorry), and the domain name will cost $18. However, I’m not saying for sure that I’ll be going with WordPress; in the end, I may stick with Blogger or even a different site.
If I do go with WordPress, I’ll want as much money as possible to keep the domain name for as long as possible (currently looking like it’s going to be paradoxiumreturns.com), and by that, I mean at least 10 years. What that’ll come out to be depends on who I go with. Blogger/Google: $100. WordPress: $180.
Remember the commissions that I said I’d do for money? Now I have a purpose for the money that we can all agree on (for the most part). Until we reach the goal, 10% will be put aside for personal things, but the rest of the 90% of the funds will be put into a fund to get PR it’s own domain. For more information on commissions, click here.
This is the last step in my goal of getting PR it’s own site, and I don’t want to take people’s money just for a site. I also want to draw you things.
-Howard H. Drammond
Information on providers that I’ve gathered (if you want to know):
Blogger: I like this because I’m already on here. However, there’s no optimization for comics here; no automatic “last” buttons, I have to make sure that I put in the links correctly, etc. On the other hand, this only costs $10/year for the private domain name alone.
WordPress: Comes with an expansion optimized for comics fittingly called ComicPress. I’m still figuring this out, but by the time I get to the goal, I’ll have either decided against it or figured it out entirely. It’s the optimization for comics that draws me in, but at the same time, just $18 for the custom domain and minimal customization? Eh… EDIT: I can’t even change the fonts without paying an extra $30. I don’t want to do this.
Tumblr: Although this is a wonderful platform we’re using, it just isn’t right forParadoxium Returns.

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