Dreamweaver Web Site -- Final Assignment

For the last project of the semester we'll be using Dreamweaver (which I just met today) to create a Web site. The site's content can be anything we choose, and with four weeks left of the semester, I wanted to design a site for something that I'd really be interested in. As I was staring at my Web browser trying to think of my favorite sites, I realized the only ones I have bookmarked and visit daily are blogs and Webcomics. When I started getting into Webcomics a year or so ago, I toyed with the idea of having one of my own. I don't really consider myself skilled with drawing and I rarely have time to do it. Although, I do enjoy drawing, coloring, making jokes, and for a while I've wanted to hone the skills I do have so I can be more confident in them. So, why not create a Webcomic site?

It'll be fun, and it'll be a site I can expand and use after the class is over. This will be my first Web site ever created (never even designed one before!). It'll be a nice change in the semester because in my Applications class, our last project is also to design a Web site, but that's only designing three pages and not actually making it function.

Granted, maybe choosing to create a site based on currently non-existent content is doubling my workload, but it's something that I've wanted to do and have just been needing the motivation and tools to actually pursue it.

Now to figure out what sort of content areas the site will have. A typical Webcomic site has archives, a shop, artist bio page and, if the comic follows a story arch, a cast page. They usally have forums or other ways for readers to respond/discuss. And I've seen some that have sections covering other artwork from the artist. But I really want mine to not follow the same mold I've seen. While I think I'll probably try and incorporate most of those categories, I'd like the site to be more about communicating an idea (based on I have no idea yet), whether it's a personal design philosophy or outlook on life or other beliefs, using a weekly Webcomic to help illustrate it. I'd like to incorporate animations with the comics, and NO i do not mean I'd like to make cartoons. Think more like selective animations that are triggered by the viewer via button pressing or mouse hovering. Some Webcomic artists include how-to's on their sites or the process they go through. I really don't want the homepage to be the newest strip like every Webcomic I've seen.

I think I've decided on a name for the comic: Edited for Content. But I don't know. Still thinking.