Solution to integrate a comics gallery into a website
Hi hackers, I want to create a "Comics" section on cashcoach.io to publish the all the comics we post on facebook. They are typically 1-page comics like that: https://www.facebook.com/CashCoachAI/photos/a.1412430565568606/1835483493263309/
My website is hand coded (not using wordpress), and I am looking for a solution to create a photo gallery or blog post that can be integrated on an existing domain name: cashcoach.io/comics (NOT on a subdomain name: comics.cashcoach.io)
Ideally with features to share, comments or subscribe.
Any suggestion?
Thanks
I'd probably deploy a ghost blog with a simple pre-made theme on a $5/mo DO server (or a cheaper alternative) and point your comics subdomain to it
Thanks faucet, can this solution work using a subdirectory rather than subdomain?
It definitely could be but may take a bit more work depending on your set up/knowledge. You'd need to set up a web server such as nginx to proxy requests with the /comics route to your comic application running on a separate port (assuming both live on one box)
I don't know yet about nginx but it doesn't look that hard to setup :)
Just pointing this out: people without Facebook can't see that link maybe try a screenshot?
I don't have a solution for you(I'm a developer but don't really use plugins/have anything in mind).
I was just curious though what you have in mind how this thing would work. If it was cashcoach.io/comics/comic-name or cashcoach.io/comics/date. Sounds like you would need a CMS to add/manage the "posts" and then deal with the routing/template to show the content. Sounds like it would function like a SPA?
The comments part you could use Disqus. Guess depends too how your site is setup eg. what you're using for your server/backend(how easily you can integrate something else) or maybe you just setup the other part through a separate site/share the domain.
I am indeed looking for a CMS that can be installed on a subdirectory cashcoach.io/comics/comic-name.
Wordpress could be a good solution but it's on PHP, full of security breach and wouldn't work on netlify which doesn't support PHP.
An alternative would be headless CMS but I would need to create the whole front-end and don't have time for that. Unless you know some blog/webcomic templates that can easily be plugged to a headless CMS.
NB: Ok, will upload the image for those who don't have facebook
Ahh I see, I get the comic part ha, I was more thinking there was some sort of it interface/design in mind too like how you navigate between pages. Which... probably pointless to discuss/should come with solution.
One thing I'll throw out there is Cloudinary regarding photo hosting, it has this structure to it where the folders can become like API endpoints. You could potentially leverage that with a basic navigation UI but you said you're short on time... the WP thing I guess it depends what plugins you have installed, out of the box I would hope it's not that bad haha
A simple template could be /your-url/ then the folders in cloudinary are grouped/structured to match it and the page just loads the photo by that pattern(pulled from URL) I think that would work... but it's been while since I used it.
Oh yeah, you can do it, the folders as I mentioned are like routes and you can just build a basic web template to consume it or some minor JS to fetch/replace the images.
huh... can't figure out how to attach an image in a comment
https://i.imgur.com/vErPSVN.png
So yeah, you can pull it by url or just use arrows that replace images... probably do some kind of pattern that makes sense, the URL way makes sense as that's just splitting it.
Then you control it from cloudinary, no vulnerabilities other than logging into cloudinary itself which is up to you(password).
ha you can do it, super simple concept but you can see what I'm saying
https://jsfiddle.net/pmz3wt79/1/ and was pointless to block out that stuff it's public knoweledge. 5 minute code so sorry it's bad ha
Thanks, that looks like a good option. Will have a deeper look at Cloudinary ;)
The simplest way I can think of is to display all your comics as images on the same page, one after the other. You can handcode that with pure HTML (just loads of <img/> tags one after the other). Of course with CMS like WordPress you get a lot more out the box like an upload system, pagination, single post view, SEO markup etc, but you also need to be able to set up a PHP server. It really depends on how much time you want to spend on it and how technical you want to get with the solution.
I need more than just an HTML gallery. I want people to share, like, comments, etc.
Anyway I think that the only way to have something that blends in the website is to tailor code the front-end and plug a headless CMS.