I find myself again driven to post by an annoyance.
So, for a personal project I’m trying to follow the RSS feeds of as many comic shops around the country as possible. The biggest resource for this is a website called “The Master List.” It’s basically just a huge listing of comic shops and their contact info. What’s nice about the site is that it gives the website for any shop that has one.
Looking at the websites for various websites (I’m through Colorado so far) I’ve noticed that comic shop websites fall into three categories: The professionally done (about 40% from what I can see), The amateur website (about 35% of what I’ve seen so far. This does not include those that use a CMS like WordPress), and those that want to pretend that they have a webpage but don’t. The pretend webpage has almost always been a myspace page.
Why do people think that is acceptable? Websites are cheap. I know. You’re reading this on a cheap webpage. A myspace page IS NOT A WEBPAGE! Not if you’re older that 14. Seriously, it takes like 5 minutes to have a wordpress siteup.
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Damon
