2. Create pretty pictures to make your comic come to life. If you’re very good or else somehow enchanted, this will come true in the literal sense. If not, you’ll just have to put up with your crappy, two-dimensional drawings. Computers can work wonders these days, covering up for the fact that most people simply don’t have the slightest trace of any artistic talent whatsoever.

3. Find a site to host your files. The longer the domain name and the more you have to pay to join, the better your site will be. The longer your site’s URL is, the more people will have to remember it. And never trust any service which offers you free hosting: if you don’t place any value on them, they won’t place any on your work.

4. Create the pages you need in order to make your comics viewable and as æsthetically pleasing as possible. Everyone likes matching colours like navy blue on black and lots of needless links all over the place. Plus, all good sites should have at least five different frames. At this point, it’s generally a good idea to ignore any advice or help files your host may offer because they really don’t know what they’re talking about. If you want to save yourself some work, make enough to cover the entire first year of your comic.

5. Upload your site. If you can’t figure this one out, give up now.

6. Once all of your files are in place and you’ve discovered nothing works quite the way you want it to, forget about all of your great designs, go back and read that friendly help documentation to ensure your site will actually work, not just look nice. By the time you’ve corrected eight months’ worth of files, the rest will seem a breeze.

7. If you’ve been working to a planned schedule, you should be several weeks behind, otherwise you’ve really done something wrong. By this time, either you’ll have perfected your site or be so overcome with frustration that you no longer have a working computer.