How to Make a Webcomic and How We Made Ours (2025)
- Objectified Team
- Sep 27, 2023
- 25 min read
Updated: Jun 30
We get asked quite often how we made our website and how to approach the medium of webcomics. In this blog post, we'll talk about how we accomplished the look and feel of our official website, how we got started producing comics, and share important tips for making webcomics that you won't find anywhere else.
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UPS AND DOWNS OF USING WIX TO HOST COMICS
One of the first things you have to do on the technical side of things is decide what platform/hosting service to use. The best answer really depends on your long-term goals as a webcomic artist.
If you're doing this for fun, it's better to choose something like ComicFury, Tumblr, or any website that is free to use and allows you to quickly and easily upload your pages and edit the CSS of your webpages. These sites are also good to get eyes on your work quickly due to having active pre-established communities.
If you want to make the comic your career, it's better to make your own website.
We use Wix. We can't in good faith recommend Wix to anybody.
It's best to use Wordpress, which would still allow you to integrate AdSense for passive income. You can also use something like Neocities and sell ad space on it (though you'd need to get enough traffic for people to want to pay for it). Since we chose Wix, we're mostly going to be talking about how to use Wix.
Upsides of using Wix:
Customization - Almost to your heart's content, or at least everything you'll need to make the webcomic site thematic and yours.
Visual Editor - You can drag and drop elements to make your website in the visual website editor. This is good for people who don't have a lot of experience with coding.
App Integration - Apps/widgets will allow you to quickly set up blogs, image galleries, submission forms, online stores, and more. A decent amount of the ones that are useful to you are free.
Site Analytics - Paired with Google Search Console, it is possible to track your website's analytics to keep track of popular (and more importantly poor performing) content. You can see how well you perform on Google, as well as traffic sources and the amount of unique visitors + site sessions you get every day.
AdSense - Wix can integrate Google Ads for free, but you have to apply directly to Google's AdSense program first. It may take a while to get approved, but what qualifies you is not user engagement—it's site content! The better your website looks and the more episodes you have out, the more likely you will be to get approved. It took us a few tries before we got in, so don't feel bad if you don't get approved right away.
Professionalism/Advertising - Having your own domain is going to make it easier to fit your website's URL on business cards, write down for people, and share/remember via word of mouth.
Early Access - You can host hidden web pages that are only accessible to patrons, allowing for you to offer early access as an avenue to fund your project while maintaining the look and feel of your website. These hidden web pages can also be passed off to TRUSTED friends and family so they can enjoy your work before it releases and offer draft critiques.
Downsides of using Wix:
It Can Get Expensive - A domain costs around $30, which most people can manage to cover. The real problem starts with Wix’s premium plans. They’re poorly designed and often include limitations that pressure you into upgrading to more expensive tiers. For example, the cheapest plan only offers 2GB of storage. On top of that, whichever plan you choose will likely go up in price each year—ours increases by about $100 annually. Wix pretends to mitigate this by constantly offering us discounts for horrendously expensive multi-year long plans that are only discounted for the first year.
Learning Curve - Slapping elements onto a web page is easy and will get you pretty far. When you want to do fancy things like showing/hiding elements when a button is clicked, you're going to have to learn how to use Velo, which is Wix's coding panel. If you don't know how to code, this can be pretty difficult to learn. Some feats also require learning how the Wix dataset system works, which is admittedly not beginner-friendly, but we will do our best to explain it in the guide.
It Can Get Even More Expensive - Some widgets on Wix are third-party apps that watermark or lock their features behind a paywall until you subscribe. Automated mailing list sign-ups are built into Wix, but surprisingly, they aren’t included in any of the premium plans—you have to pay for a separate plan to use them.
Lack of Features - Wix is lacking in a few things we feel that it should have offered from day one. For example, website updates currently cannot be scheduled. Someone has to sit there, at the computer, at 11:59 AM CT and hover over a "publish" button. You could disappoint a lot of people if you sleep through that alarm or the power goes out.
Wix Enshittification - Wix has a development team that occasionally changes, adds, or removes things to the disdain and inconvenience of its userbase.
A prime example: in 2025, they downgraded their image rendering engine, which severely degraded image quality on our site. Readers started complaining, so we reached out to Wix for support. They told us the change wouldn’t be reverted and offered some frankly useless solutions. In the end, we had to change the way that images display on the site ourselves by overwriting the rendering engine with code.
You're Restricted to JavaScript - Velo is JavaScript. Some complex visual feats only accomplished via CSS are not possible with the current editor regardless of the tier of your plan. You cannot access the DOM of your website.
You're Trapped - Wix doesn't want you to even dream of switching to a different hosting platform, so they make it difficult (if not impossible) to extract source code and transfer your website to somewhere else. Wix tends to put special time aside dedicated to making sure that you're stuck with them forever instead of improving their UI. If you want to drop Wix, you have to remake your website from scratch.
In conclusion, it has its ups and downs. A good rule to generally live by: If it's advertised heavily on YouTube, it probably sucks major gonads. The Webcomics Do-Not-Fly List:
Webtoons - With a 20MB file size limit per episode, an overly strict advertiser-friendly censorship policy, and a clear lack of support for its Canvas creators (that’s you), Webtoons falls short compared to its competitors. Even if you get picked up to be a Webtoons Original, they will work you to the bone and take a cut of your profits. You also won't have control of how your work is advertised by Webtoons, which can be really bad for your PR if they make your comic look tasteless (supposedly, this happened to Boyfriends).
More to be added in the future!
INTRODUCTION TO WEBCOMICS
Webcomics are a fun, digestible art medium that can effectively tell your story and hone your art/time management skills. Many artists start with a webcomic series and move on to more ambitious storytelling mediums like animation, and so can you.
We've got some (actually a lot of) advice for you if you're starting out that we think you should take into consideration if you want to make a webcomic:
Write out your story in beats before you start drawing - Story beats range from short to medium-sized excerpts of story/script that describe what happens in your episodes. Instead of scripting out every individual scene, angle, and line of dialogue, try to be vague and open to change/improv. The key is to not waste any time on the nitty gritty so that you can jump right into working.
The entirety of Objectified (book one) is scripted out already, and we recommend you do the same thing with your story before you start drawing the episodes. For us, it took a total of three months to write the whole book.
Take care of yourself - You should be wary of burnout. It will kill most webcomics before they get to their third episode. Make space and time for yourself so that you both have time to work and time to relax and have fun. Eat, sleep, and drink water.
Make a buffer - Buffers are extra completed episodes that are ready to publish. Working ahead like this allows you to take vacations without missing releases and letting down your fans. Being late on updates has a bigger impact on your audience than you may think, or at least that's what we've heard... we've never been late on publishing an update.
We recommend working at least three episodes ahead before you start releasing them to the public.
It's okay to suck - Your art and writing probably will not be perfect or even up to your own standards when you start out. You're going to make mistakes and make episodes that you hate, and you're going to need to leave them be and keep moving forward.
Going back to fix mistakes is a waste of time and tempts burnout. Let your work speak for itself, as over time you will improve and the contrast between your old work and new work will be more admirable to readers.
Branch out to other platforms - Having a personal website is an amazing professional choice, but we recommend hosting your comic on at least one other website that specializes in hosting comics. Don't overdo it, or else you'll just make more work for yourself for very little reward. You're probably best off using ComicFury for this purpose.
Stay professional - Your public image matters. You don’t need to be overly corporate, but it’s important to think before you speak. You probably shouldn't engage with petty drama on social media or fist fight your audience.
Stay active on social media - Sharing previews and promos keeps your fans engaged and looking forward to new episodes by showing them a glimpse of what's coming.
Set healthy boundaries with fans by keeping your life private/communications limited if you want. Try not to get addicted to numbers and worrying about everyone's opinions. You should have some way to remind yourself that you make art for you before anyone else.
Create a work schedule - Try to make a work schedule and test it during the production of your first few episodes. Adjust accordingly.
We use Google Sheets, Google Drive, and Discord to organize our work and communication. For the artist, Objectified is a full-time job to allow for episodes to come out biweekly.
Work with people you trust - Having a team made up entirely of strangers that volunteered to work with you is riskier than you think. Be patient and wary when scraping together your team.
For Object Comic Creators - Keep your cast small and dream big. Create something that you would find entertaining if you were a fan! The OSC can be very hot-blooded about shows and comics that deviate from stick-limbed moving assets in a competition show format, but you need to remember that most of those critics aren't old enough to be on the computer without parental supervision.
Be patient - With webcomics, slow and steady wins the race. Projects in this medium typically see a slow, gradually increasing level of traction and the most important thing for you to worry about is getting your episodes out on time consistently.
The more episodes you have out, the more fans will have to talk about and get invested in. When you finally get to the good stuff, we promise you'll see the attention you deserve for all of your hard work.
Show, don't tell - Concept art is fun to make and share online, and so is gushing about the things you love—but you do waste time explaining ideas and concepts that you could be executing in comic format instead. Shut your yapper and work!
On a similar note, over-explaining concepts in the comic itself can damage your project as well. Be careful about what you spoon-feed to readers or else your story will be less impactful in execution because fans will already know what's going to happen.
If you have a complex, story-relevant topic than cannot be explained well visually or squeezed into an episode, that would be most appropriate to explain full-on. For us, that was our intermission about Organspace. Keep it fun and interesting.
Take inspiration from others - If you’ve read webcomics before, revisit them and study how their websites are structured.
This can help you figure out what you’d like to replicate. Seek out other comics in your genre to immerse yourself in the possibilities. Just don’t plagiarize. Drawing inspiration is completely normal, but pretending you weren’t influenced by anything is weird. When Objectified was still new and controversial, we were often accused of being influenced by random artists — when in reality, it was usually the other way around. Those artists just didn’t want to admit they enjoyed our webcomic at the time or drew inspiration from it. They were subscribed to our Patreon.
For us, we take heavy inspiration from Scape and Run: Parasites, the Dead Space franchise, object shows like Battle for Dream Island, and the works of Junji Ito.
Collect resources - Before you start, take a stroll through somewhere like DeviantArt looking for screen tones, brushes, and effects. Most of them are free to use without needing credit, but we personally credit them anyways.
Always check the copyright/use policy of every individual asset you download, including fonts and website graphics. You might have to purchase a license to use certain assets and not doing so can land you in legal trouble.
On a similar note, streamline your work - Webcomics are a demanding medium, especially for beginners. If you can find ways to cheat and speed up the process, then please do so! Reuse backgrounds, fill space with free assets, and use the tools available at your disposal to quickly compose backgrounds and choose color pallets for scenes.
We use drawing tools, pattern brushes, overlay textures, screentones, etc. in order to speed up the drawing process.
You Need Diverse Passive Income - Set up a Patreon/Ko-fi, sign up for AdSense, Let people tip you, and use third-party printing services like Fourthwall to sell merchandise without having to make it yourself. Online sources of income are generally unstable. The companies behind them tend to go out of business/make poor choices and often experience enshittification. You want to use as many different avenues of passive income as possible to make a living wage, and you need them to be diverse just in case one of them dies off.
If you're actually going to start your own webcomic series, especially an object show webcomic, you have our full support. We'll be rooting for you!
WHAT IS "VELO WITH WIX"?
Wix offers Velo, a coding panel (primarily) that allows you to code in JavaScript. It isn't terribly hard to learn how to use, but coding is coding and it's not for everyone.
We use Velo/JavaScript for a lot of things, like showing/hiding elements based on certain conditions as well as keeping our comic's image quality high and up to standard.
DYNAMIC PAGES VS STATIC PAGES
Wix offers a hard limit of 100 static webpages regardless of your plan. This is because a lot of static pages will slow down your website, and as a result Google will find your website very unattractive and rank you lower in search results. The solution to this mess is to use dynamic page collections.
Dynamic pages collections are for web pages that are identical in structure. A good example would be our episodes—The elements on the page are always the same position, type, size, and shape. They only vary in content.
Static pages are not something that should be completely avoided, because they still make up the foundation of your website. Your homepage, archive, about page, and cast page should be static. With Wix, static pages are the default state for every page you create and can be converted to dynamic pages whenever you want.
In this guide, we'll explain how to set up the dynamic page collections and how those freaky columns work.
But first, let's get the basics out of the way.
MAKING THE HOME PAGE
Once you have your domain or Wix site, it's time to start building. You can choose from a myriad of templates to get started. Wix also has a decently sized image asset library that you can use for site backgrounds and buttons and such. The website background for Objectified is actually a Wix asset!
You'll be starting with your home page, so it's time to set up your header, body, and footer. For Objectified, we try to be mindful and strategic about where we put assets and information. A good example is the website header, which includes a clickable logo that links back to the home page, our socials, and displays a brief content warning. All three are very important for user experience, so they are always present at the top of the screen.
The body of your home page should include every important link that is not included in your site menu. For us, we use buttons that link to the first/latest episodes, as well as a couple more misc. buttons just to pad things out. We chose to link to the shop/extras pages just so fans get an extra reminder that they exist. The footer of most websites includes a copyright statement and contact links. If you have an open avenue of communication—like an email—you can include it here.
To save time, you can use mediocre/placeholder assets. It took more than a year to get our website looking as sleek as it does, so don't stress about perfection just yet.
Have friends or family review your website so they can give feedback on its design and usability. If your site is frustrating to navigate, readers will get confused, leave, and likely never come back.
Keep in mind that your site will look different on a mobile device VS a computer. Switch to the mobile view in the website editor to adjust how it looks on a phone. This is the phone button at the top of the page.
MAKING THE EPISODE PAGES
This is where things get a little intermediate. To preface, we're going to learn now what a dataset/CMS collection is and why they're important.
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER Dataset collections publish changes within the collection automatically to your live site. This means that the moment you make a change in the CMS collection, people viewing your website will be able to see it regardless of whether or not you click Publish. To disable this, opt into sandbox mode. The sandbox collection is where you will make unpublished changes and they can be synced to the live collection to publish them to readers.
First, create the general layout of your episode webpage by creating a new webpage.
Create the title and date. They can say "EPISODE TITLE" and "00/00/00", because they are placeholders and will connected to your dataset ti display different things depending on what you enter into the columns.
Create a box to insert the comic pages/title/date into (if you want to).
Insert blank comic page images. Try to gauge the maximum amount of pages you'll be drawing for one episode and stack them on top of each other. These placeholder images will be defined by the dataset later, so it doesn't matter if they are all blank/all the same image file in the website editor.
Enable dev mode in the top left of the website editor and label your page assets. In the Velo editor, when you click a page element, you will be able to name it on the right side of the Velo window. Keep it short, simple, and ordered. Name them something like p1, p2, p3, and so on. Skip this step if you only have one comic page per webpage.
Make your comic pages invisible on load and collapse them on load as well. In the same Velo editor under the naming box, you can click a checkbox to hide/collapse the elements on load. They will now change in appearance, being covered in long diagonal stripes and slightly greyed out. Skip this step if you only have one comic page per webpage. When you're done, disable dev mode.
Create the navigation buttons (e.g., "first", "prev", "next", and "last").
Add any additional elements you want to be in the body of your page.
Fix the mobile version of the webpage by clicking the phone button at the top left of the editor. When you're done, switch back.
Now, let's convert this to a dynamic page set. By clicking the page drop-down menu in the top-left of the editor, you can find your web page and convert it to a dynamic page by clicking the three dots next to its name. This creates your dataset and collection.
Wix will present you with a button to get started, so click it. Save to a new collection and name it something like "episode". It will become a part of the URL. For example, our collection is named "episode", so our URLS in the collection will look like https://www.objectifiedcomic.com/episode/00. We define "00" within the collection itself. If you're doing one comic page per webpage, you should name the collection "page" rather than "episode".
Wix will likely select all of your text and image elements to automatically add them to the dataset. It might skip out on your navigation buttons, but this is fine. We can add and remove elements very easily later. Click "Connect Elements" to move on to the next step.
A dataset will be added to your page. It is a little square titled with the name of your collection and is only visible to you, so you can put it anywhere. You can double-click this element to quickly open the collection, which is where we define the contents of each page. It should open automatically and will look like a spreadsheet with columns.
Rename each field appropriately. This is the top row, where each field in the column is labeled. Likely, your episode title and date were converted to two different fields, named "Text 1" and "Text 2". By hovering over them, we can click the three dots to rename them to something like "Episode Title (Webpage)" and "Episode Date". The "Title" field defines the latter slug of your URL. For example, if we entered "1", our URL will now be objectifiedcomic.com/episode/1.
Organize your fields in order of relevancy. You can drag and move your fields left and right of each other. It is likely that you have a field at the very end of the item column named after your collection with the end of the page's URL inside. We recommend moving this alllll the way to the left next to the Title field. The title field defines the end of the URL, so putting them next to each other allows you to edit the Title field and see the URL update in real time. The field that displays the URL slug cannot be directly edited and is defined by your collection name and Title field, which you can rename to "Slug" or "Define URL".
Add links to the navigation buttons by clicking them in the website editor and then clicking "Connect to CMS". It will ask you for the dataset, so choose the episode collection. It will then ask you what to connect the element to within the dataset. In the case of a navigation button, you will want to connect it to a link field. Create the link fields by re-opening the dataset and clicking "add field" at the far right end of the fields. Select the URL field type and name each one appropriately (e.g. "prev" and "next"). Create a separate link field for each navigation button. Your "first" and "last" buttons don't have to be connected to the CMS collection if you link them to a cover/end page that rarely needs to be changed or updated.
Don't make image fields in your CMS collection. Instead, make a link field for each page. These links will be the image source, ensuring that your pictures stay high quality throughout Wix's lifetime of experimentally cheaping-out on you. You can host your images on Wix or use some other service like Dropbox. To get the URLs of Wix images, you can open the file explorer and copy their url by right-clicking on them. Your comic pages will not be connected to the CMS collection the way that Wix wants you to. Instead, we will use code to connect the elements to the link field.
Once you are satisfied with your table organization, you can start fleshing out the content. Enter the episode title and publication date of your first episode into the appropriate fields in the collection, since this will be your first episode.
Add a new webpage to the collection by clicking "+ Add Item" in your collection. When you exit the collection, you can now switch between these webpages by clicking the drop-down menu that has appeared on the right side of the website editor. This is not visible to users. The new item will be episode 2 and so on.
By creating a dynamic page collection, the initial webpage you created with placeholder assets becomes a template for every page in the collection. Within the collection's CMS window, each row represents one page in the collection and the contents of these fields control what is displayed on your webpage (and more).
We can add other important fields that determine the title/description of your webpage in search results, tool-tips for images, and alt text. To connect a field to your search result title and description, navigate to the dynamic page collection via the upper left page navigation drop-down menu and select "Manage Pages". Under "Dynamic Pages", you can select your collection. By clicking the three dots next to its name, you can select "SEO Basics" and connect the appropriate field tags.
Now we do the coding. Re-enable dev mode in the top left of the website editor.
The code is admittedly pretty simple. If you hid/collapsed your pages on load properly, this code will keep them hidden as well as the space they occupy if their corresponding field is undefined in the collection. In layman's terms, the code hides placeholder images that you aren't using. This code will also attach alt text to your pages if you create an alt text field in the CMS collection.
Start by inserting the following into the Velo coding panel:
$w("#dynamicDataset").onReady(() => {
const item = $w("#dynamicDataset").getCurrentItem();
for (let i = 1; i <= 20; i++) {
const urlField = `imageurl${i}`;
const altField = `altP${i}`;
const imageId = `#p${i}`;
const imageElement = $w(imageId);
if (item[urlField] && imageElement) {
imageElement.src = item[urlField];
imageElement.alt = item[altField] || "";
imageElement.show();
imageElement.expand();
} else {
imageElement.collapse();
imageElement.hide();
}
}
});The anatomy of this code snippet is fairly simple. Highlighted in red is everything you need to worry about changing.
20 is the total amount of comic page image elements that we can possibly have. There are 20 placeholder images on the Objectified website's episode dynamic page setup. You can change this number. imageurl is the name of the fields that have image URLs in them. For example, imageurl1, imageurl2, imageurl3, etc. will be included just with this line of code. These are your comic page fields, and the code will change your placeholder images to match the image links or collapse and hide the placeholder images if there is no link at all. altP is the name of our alt text field in the CMS collection. #p is the element ID of the comic pages. You can find or change the element ID by clicking on an element with Dev Mode on and viewing the ID on the right side of the coding panel. If you renamed these to something else, adjust the code accordingly to reflect their proper names.
If you have questions, contact us at officialobjectified@gmail.com. Keep in mind we're pretty busy these days, but if you're having problems with your website we can try to help.
MAKING THE ARCHIVE PAGE
The archive page is where readers can quickly access all of your episodes in one place. A simple link list can suffice, but we can really do so much more than that. Opt into sandbox mode before working with datasets.
When Objectified started out, we manually copy/pasted each episode's group of elements into the list. Often, the elements would break or move around. We then discovered repeaters.
Repeaters connect to a dataset, which defines their contents. While dynamic page collections contain identical webpages, the repeater contains repeating identical web page elements side-by-side or in a list.
If you're creating an archive page where you need to display many of the same group of elements, the repeater is what you will use. Another example of using repeaters can be for your team's individual profiles on your about page or even your cast page.
Create the archive page. We personally would choose the "blank page" option and build it from the ground-up.
Create a box to contain your repeater.
Drop a repeater element onto the page and into the box. The repeater can be found by clicking the "(+) Add" button on the top left of your screen and selecting "Interactive". Choose any Hover Repeater and drop it onto your page.
Customize your repeater. Make sure every image and text element you use is placeholder. Keep your images simple/blank and your text non-descriptive, because we will define their contents within the dataset. You'll notice when one element is moved around in one item, the same element moves in every other item as well. Get familiar with the settings and display options before moving on to the next step.
Create a new dataset. On the left side of the editor, the second-to-last button is the CMS button. When you click it, it allows you to create a new collection, so do that. Name it "archive" or "archive list", select the "Multiple Items" option, and create. When you do this, the dataset will be added to the page. Only you can see this, and double-clicking it in the website editor will open the collection window. You can put it wherever you want. When creating a collection for the first time, it will probably open the collection window automatically
Exit the collection and check how the webpage looks in the mobile editor by clicking the phone button at the upper left of the website editor.
Now you have the collection. We will be connecting page elements to each field and creating new fields to define various different things. For repeaters, you must create each field from scratch. Double-click the dataset element in the editor to re-open the collection. The collection can also be accessed via the CMS button on the left side of the editor in case you accidentally deleted the little box.
When you connect a text element in the website editor to a collection, you lose the ability to freely customize the formatting of your text. You are limited to your website's built-in site theme which can be edited and accessed through the "Site Design" button on the left side of the website editor.
Even then, you only have the option to format text in this way via the "Rich Text" field. When you create a text element in the repeater that you'd like to style, it will need a corresponding Rich Text field in the collection to connect to.
For us, we have the following elements defined in the dataset:
Title - The Title of the episode. Rich Text field (allows for styling text and embedding link to episode within field text).
Description - The short blurb for each episode. Plain Text field.
Thumbnail - The thumbnail for each episode. Image field.
Characters (optional) - The tiny chalk drawings that tell readers who features in an episode. Image fields.
Date - The publication date for each episode. Plain Text field.
URL - The link we connect to the episode thumbnail so readers can click the image and be taken to the episode. URL field.
Empty Tool-tip - When images are connected to datasets, they are automatically assigned their file names as tool-tips. We don't want tool-tips for these images, so create a plain Text field and leave it empty. We will connect it to the images so that they do not display a tool-tip.
Alt Text (optional) - Alt text tells search engines and e-readers what is in an image. Defining the alt text of your images can help you appear more frequently in search results or aid people with e-readers/shitty internet connections.
For each element that changes on your webpage, create a corresponding field item in the collection with the appropriate field type. An example of an element we do not create a field for is the brick wall background, since it remains the same in every repeater item.
Now we can start connecting repeater elements to the dataset.
Click any of the repeater item elements in the website editor and click the "Connect to CMS" button. Choose the archive dataset and begin connecting the appropriate fields through the drop-down menus.
Test the website by clicking "Preview" in the top right of the website editor. Do the links work? Do your tool-tips show? Is your text formatting correct?
When satisfied, click the (+) Add button on the left side of the website editor and go to Interactive. At the bottom of the list of apps, you should see an option to create a pagination bar. We can drop the pagination bar onto the page and connect it to the archive dataset, so users can now navigate between different pages of items. You can adjust how many items display per page via the repeater's settings.
You should be good to go! Don't forget that when you publish a new episode, you will have to go into the dataset collection to manually sync your unpublished changes to your live collection. This includes your Dynamic Episode page collection. Otherwise, users will not be able to access your new episodes. We recommend keeping all of your important datasets on one webpage so you can quickly switch between them to sync them to their live collections. And when you delete an item from the dataset, you'll have to delete it from the live collection as well or else it will remain there even after syncing.
MAKING THE ABOUT PAGE
It's worth a section. When you create your about page, include your mission as an artist/team/project and link to all of your socials. Describe your project in a short excerpt and beneath all of that you can talk about yourself and your team. If your comic contains mature content, include a content warning here too.
Keep business profiles focused and relevant. Readers are generally looking for information about your work, not irrelevant personal details. Consider reserving more personal content for private platforms. For an About page, it’s best to highlight each person’s role, important things about their identity like their name, pronouns, and maybe a snippet of their story or mission.
Credit the sources of your assets and give a statement about how you are comfortable having your work shared and edited by people on the internet. We allow people to download and redistribute images in the galleries for specific purposes and mimic our website's layout, for example. Our repository images are also free to edit and redistribute as long as they aren't monetized. Our full English language episodes themselves are not to be redistributed in full without permission, however. Specifying and setting these boundaries is important for fans to know what they can do and what they can get in trouble for.
EXTRA TIPS
If you got through the whole guide, congrats! We hope it helped, and please let us know if there are holes in our steps by emailing us at officialobjectified@gmail.com.
Before you go, we're going to throw at few more valuable pieces of information at you.
Graphic design is half of the work - You're going to get a lot of experience in graphic design by making and promoting your website whether you like it or not, so get ready. If we had a dollar for every weirdly specific aspect ratio we've had to use for a banner, we would have enough of those dollars for like one meal at Canes idk stuff is actually kind of expensive now
Look into RSS - RSS, in the most simplest terms, is a web reader. RSS allows people to track site updates and news via their RSS feed. To integrate RSS easily into a Wix site, you can create a blog via the "(+) Add" button on the left side of the website editor and create an RSS button that links to your blog's .xml page. Every time you post on the blog, people using the contents of your .xml page will see the blog post through their reader. This way, you can notify people of site updates without forcing them to register for social media or webcomic hosting sites. It is an awkward time to be using social media and probably the best time in years to be offering alternatives.
Look into Search Engine Optimization - When you search "Objectified" on Google, our evil gay comic is the first result. But it wasn't always like that. In order to rank well on search results our pages needed to include a lot of relevant data, key words, and alt text. Then, Google's engine had to send a bot to crawl and index our pages. Wix will help you set up an account with Google Search Console and give you tips for managing your SEO through the dashboard, so we won't get into the small details.
Don't invest what you can't afford to lose - When you pay for help, advertising, and materials, try not to spend any amount of money that you aren't comfortable with wasting. If you have a hundred dollars to blow, you can invest in a short ad campaign... but if you need that money to afford to keep your website running, you need to save it.
Tell the story that you want to tell - Don't let anyone tell you what your project should or shouldn't be. Learn to differentiate between constructive criticism and bad-faith criticism so that you can continue to improve your work without losing sight of your goals. Save your time and attention for people who appreciate your work for what it is and see you as a human being.
Don't make promises you can't keep - It's a normal part of life to start working on something that you inevitably won't finish. Be careful about what you promise is coming out in case you can't finish it on time. We had to delay Turtleshell's first journal entry when we had promised it would release in October, for example! Mounting broken promises might look bad (we're taking forever on ROI)
You aren't alone - It’s easy to feel stuck—whether from personal struggles or not realizing that many creators face the same challenges. If it helps to hear: the artist behind Objectified spent the first year of production working through depression and clinically severe PTSD. That same year, he also began HRT and pushed forward with the project through persistence and hard work. Today, things are going much better.
We'll update the guide with relevant information and fix errors in the future when we find time. Thanks for reading Objectified!