Dec09

ComicPress/Comic Easel Showcase’s

by Phil (Frumph) on December 9th, 2010 at 2:27 am
Posted In: Blog

Showcase’s are available to ComicPress/Comic Easel users on this ComicPress.NET site, If you are interested in having your ComicPress or Comic Easel based site on the showcase email philip@frumph.net with the following information:

  1. 240×180 screenshot of your site.
  2. 520px (strip) 240px (graphic novel) width max sample comic.
  3. Some “come visit my site and this is what the comics about” words for the post.

For more information for the user, provide:

  • URL
  • RSS
  • Style(s)
  • Genre(s)
  • Language Used in Comic
  • Whether its ComicPress or Comic Easel
  • Who Designed your site. (credit goes where credit is due)
  • Author’s,  who is all involved in creating of the Comic
  • Twitter Account names for all involved in creating.

There is members only content here.

Being on the showcase is an opt-in situation, your site will not be listed unless you state as such.

In the future the showcases will also handle RSS feeds and update times;  Could also be part of the Mobile/Social App, hence the Opt in.

- Phil

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Dec08

Frumph’s ComicPress

by Phil (Frumph) on December 8th, 2010 at 3:50 am
Posted In: Blog

As everyone knows; I’ve taken over ComicPress’s development for several years now (sorta) as a group with the others then when they bowed out kept it going because end-users use ComicPress.

Unfortunately any donations that people have given for the developement of ComicPress and it’s usage has not gone to me. The donation button on the ComicPress.org site goes to Tyler Martin. Which in all reality it should. However, it’s come to the point where Tyler is MIA in development and hasn’t included himself in anything since 2.8.0.r5 was released.

I personally have nothing against Tyler, I dig the lug and hope whatever he’s doing is awesomesauce.

For the last year I have been trying to get out of developing ComicPress for several reasons, one of them is my health. Two times this year I have been to the point where I wouldn’t think I would see the next day, both times I have been blessed to recover nicely. The other reason is financial. Medical bills, living, a son that eats like a racehorse and a never ending multitude of fiasco’s involving a lemon of a car I bought. Lastly, I really like you guys (and girls – rawr) and feel that keeping ComicPress updated makes a real difference to you, that you have a viable means to show your art and story on the web. Ultimately I guess it’s a deep sadness that all the times that people have “appreciated” my efforts and assistance in helping you and them with your site is not specifically going towards me; to this I mean the donations on the ComicPress.org site. I do not and have not received any donations from that, minus one time where in the notes it specifically put my name in it.
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Nov23

Stick it to the email spammers.

by Phil (Frumph) on November 23rd, 2010 at 4:21 am
Posted In: Blog

Tired of getting spam emails? .. want to get some revenge? Want to make it so that those spammers can never spam *anyone* ever again?

Now mind you, this really has mostly to do with people who run email smtp/pop3 servers of their own.

Most all email daemons, like mailenable and others will let you configure your servers to use a ‘blacklist’ which is called a DNS-bsed Blackhole list i.e. DNSBL.

More info on wikipedia.

These blacklists allow your mailer daemon (the program that handles incoming and outgoing mail) to be checked with the blacklist on incoming mail to make sure that if the incoming mail is ON the blacklist to not let it through.

I use Spamcop,  Spamcop is a DNSBL that my email server uses to check incoming mail to see if its registered spam or not.

How can you ‘stick it’ to the email spammers?  Well that’s easy, you can report email to spamcop.net by logging onto their site and copy-pasting the email (or forwarding it to the email they provide).

Once you have reported the spam, Spamcop will register that domain/service as a spam site and will not allow any more mail be received by anyone using spamcop as their DNSBL (blacklist)

There are a couple of things to remember though, you cannot report spam emails that you have opted in for to begin with, find a way to deop yourself from receiving those, no other way; otherwise reporting all spam using spamcop is very valid.   The other general rule of thumb is that the mail has to be an advertisement of some sort, you cannot report an email from a friend or you, yourself will be removed from ever being able to report spam again.

Read the documentation on the spamcop site to find out how you can get the correct information that they require for reporting, the easiest way is just to forward it to the email they provide you when registering, but I personally like to copy paste the email itself (the whole properties -> view source of email) thing including headers.   That way I know its working right.

- Phil

Note: heres a mailenable response for blocked spam now:

3DEADA763F958.MAI	732	195.34.224.86	QUIT	QUIT	-	6	0
11/23/10 04:19:06	SMTP-IN	52E13C90FBAE4C49994F8F81B69D2077.MAI	716	201.35.220.29			220 frumph.org ESMTP MailEnable Service, Version: 4.23-- ready at 11/23/10 04:19:06	0	0
11/23/10 04:19:06	SMTP-IN	52E13C90FBAE4C49994F8F81B69D2077.MAI	716	201.35.220.29	HELO	HELO 201-35-220-29.jvece701.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br	250 Requested mail action okay, completed	43	54
11/23/10 04:19:06	SMTP-IN	52E13C90FBAE4C49994F8F81B69D2077.MAI	716	201.35.220.29	MAIL	MAIL FROM:<vendas@rastriblock.com.br>	250 Requested mail action okay, completed	43	39
11/23/10 04:19:07	SMTP-IN	52E13C90FBAE4C49994F8F81B69D2077.MAI	716	201.35.220.29	RCPT	RCPT TO:<philip@frumph.net>	250 Requested mail action okay, completed	43	29
11/23/10 04:19:07	SMTP-IN	52E13C90FBAE4C49994F8F81B69D2077.MAI	716	201.35.220.29	DATA	DATA	354 Start mail input; end with <CRLF>.<CRLF>	46	6
11/23/10 04:19:09	SMTP-IN	028A05E5456342469DA39BF8A8A2F1DA.MAI	716	201.35.220.29	QUIT	QUIT	221 Service closing transmission channel	42	6
11/23/10 04:23:54	SMTP-OU	9820172B56F44A9AAD43DEADA763F958.MAI	636	195.34.224.86	CONN		220 merlin.lipetsk.ru ESMTP ESMTP server ready; Tue Nov 23 15:23:59 2010	0	74
11/23/10 04:23:54	SMTP-OU	9820172B56F44A9AAD43DEADA763F958.MAI	636	195.34.224.86	EHLO	EHLO frumph.org	250 Hello, spam sender. Pleased to be wasting your time.	17	58
11/23/10 04:23:54	SMTP-OU	9820172B56F44A9AAD43DEADA763F958.MAI	636	195.34.224.86	MAIL	MAIL FROM:<info@frumph.net>	250 You are about to try to deliver spam. Your time will be spent, for nothing.	29	81
11/23/10 04:23:54	SMTP-OU	9820172B56F44A9AAD43DEADA763F958.MAI	636	195.34.224.86	RCPT	RCPT TO:<BethanieCerva5252@lipetsk.ru>	451 Temporary failure, please try again later.	40	48
11/23/10 04:23:54	SMTP-OU	9820172B56F44A9AAD43DEADA763F958.MAI	636	195.34.224.86	QUIT	QUIT	-	6	0
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Nov22

Random Backgrounds for your site.

by Phil (Frumph) on November 22nd, 2010 at 10:47 am
Posted In: Design

Utilizing nextgen gallery i’m giving you guys some random backgrounds I collected from various who the heck knows where.

Click on the image then right click save the image if you want it.

Why does this post say “random background”? well i’m going to explain a few things.  With ComicPress and Easel I put in CSS code that allows you to change backgrounds on events or particular pages.

body.home { background: #fff; }
body.day { background: #fff; }
body.night { background: #000; }
body.member { background: #fff; }
body.comic { background: #000; }

There are quite a few different options you can use, have the background change for the time of day, for the category the post is in, for the user, if they are a guest or a member, all sorts of neat things.
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Nov20

Simple changeups can do wonders.

by Phil (Frumph) on November 20th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Posted In: Blog

The holiday seasons can be fun, especially to your readers who frequent your site. Simple site changes to reflect things can give your visitors a sense of need to come back to see what you might do next. Much like how I do background changes and random posts on things that interest me.

Which is also is the base concept of why you should do as many updates as possible, the more updates you do, the more people will want to repeat visit to see whats is going on. More blog posts, more comics, anything that gives visitors the reason for returning.

We all know this, at least in the back of our minds we know this. What’s your reason for not doing it?

- Phil

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