Verticellis

• This is a responsive self-hosted comics template generator aimed to be as easy as possible to host new issues
• Here is a live example of a generated website with two issues

If you're using it please share your experience, it'll be very nice to know!

Requirements

• Install Ruby

How to Use

• Download this repository

• Create a new folder at public/ with the name of your comic (like the examples)

• Upload your pages numbered (i.e.: 1.jpg, 2.jpg)

• Change the file src/manifest.json with each comic information, for add new ones just add a comma to after the close curly bracket

        "title": "Example #1",
        "author": "Daniel Sousa",
        "author_url": "http://twitter.com/bomdiavermes",
        "number_of_pages": 3,
        "folder": "example-comic-01",
        "image_format": "jpg",
        "url_slug": "example-01",
        "previous_chapter_url_slug": "",
        "next_chapter_url_slug": "example-02"
  

• author, author_url, previous_chapter_url_slug and next_chapter_url_slug are optional

• Run the script: ruby src/main.rb

  • How to run a ruby script

• Upload the files generated inside the public folder to your website server

• Your can tweak the base HTML at src/base.html and the styles at public/base.css

Acknowledgments

• Example Comic are some pages from the amazing Daniel Sousa, check out his work!
• Idea came from Warren Ellis May 24 Newsletter

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