Sequent

Sequent is an easy to use web-comic publishing tool. It supports:

• Strip archives

• News posts

• Content pages

• Themes

• RSS feeds

• Custom assets: Wallpaper, Avatar, Strip – each will automatically create thumbnails/versions of different sizes based on type.

• Caching of pages for better performance

• Everything is commentable

Requirements

• Ruby on Rails

• Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, or SQLite)

• ImageMagick

Installation

First, copy the config/database.example.yml to config/database.yml and update it to point to your database(s). Then, from your installation’s root directory, you need to run:

rake app:setup

It will setup the database, default admin user, and more. After it’s done just start your webserver and browse to localhost:3000/admin and start publishing your web-comic!

TODO

• Storyline support

IDEAS

• Strip preview support (Prototype Image Cropper)

• Strip tagging

• Support breaking pages into panels for iPod/PSP support?

• Cache pages with a slug of 404 and 500 – therefore supporting theme’d error pages

• Reordering/Grouping of pages in CMS. It would just be for organization, they would all still be accessible via the URI: /pages/PAGE_NAME

• Forums? Integrate Beast( beast.caboo.se )

• Customized ad support? (a mini ad server kinda thing)

• Password protected pages? – a) Setup passwords or users/passwords for each page, or b) allow user registrations and only allow a certain ‘group’ of users into the page.

• Highlight dates with comics on them in the date-picker?

• Edit themes in admin UI

• Scroll the calendar in the Strip admin section

• Improve admin layout