Featured: Breakpoint City
Featured ComicPress Sites: Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Featured Site: Breakpoint City
ComicPress Version: 2.0 BE
Modifications: Medium
Here’s a great looking Webcomic site, Breakpoint City, clean, nice colors, and polished all around. It’s something any site designer can achieve if they want to take their site to that level of customization, just taking the time to exam and design each aspect of the site, covering all the details, first deciding how you want it to look, as you see it in your imagination, and second figuring out how to do that within the limits of HTML with CSS.
Another thing Breakpoint City is taking advantage of is a separate image folder for the archive comic thumbnails. In the functions.php you can set a different folder to grab smaller size versions of the comics to display in the archive previews. You can do the same for the RSS feed, if you would like to feature a smaller copy of the comic with the feed. The only trouble is having to create all these thumbnails or smaller versions. Perhaps a plugin is in order that will have your server do this for you automatically, anyone that would like to take on that task or knows of a nifty solution, feel free to step forward. 
I believe Breakpoint City was using WordPress since before ComicPress arrived on the scene, so I must be doing something right for the creator to switch over. At any rate, thanks to Brian for dressing up the theme so perty and making me look good.
February 18th, 2008 at 7:00 am
That is one smooth looking site! I think I may have to attempt to reverse engineer that.
One small note, the link to Breakpoint City has an extra http:// that you might want to take out.
February 21st, 2008 at 3:21 pm
I remember exchanging some e-mails with the creator (this was quite a way back in the lifespan of ComicPress) and it was Breakpoint City for me which really showed off how good Comicpress was for a webcomic start-up. I wasn’t really ready, I’m still not to tell the truth but I put work out for myself and my friends and try where possible to try new approaches and find something that works for me. Glad to see Breakpoint City get featured, I know he used to have a brilliant guide about running a comic using Word/ComicPress which might of been up-dated… worth a hunt for anyone pondering Comic/WordPress as an option.
I’ve not really strayed from the basic design myself, I quite liked the black… really impressive modifications are something to ponder for the future. Even using the basic styling you can modify it quite nicely. It is a very versatile godsend for all skill levels in the webcomic community.
February 24th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Oh man, I was hoping BPC would be featured here someday! I’ve been friends with the artist for a long while and when I decided to launch an actual website for my webcomic it was his use of WordPress and ComicPress that made me decide to go that route, myself (despite my limited knowledge of CSS…I’m figuring it out…helps that I can bug him on AIM sometimes.)
Well-deserved feature!
March 16th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Whenever I upload images through WordPress’ upload file form it always makes a thumbnail for me. Why not leverage that? About the only thing I think you’d have to do is modify it so that instead of uploading everything to a folder named by year + month you could have it upload to one that was named year + month + day and then pull the thumbnails and the comic images from there.