I'm currently writing a comic/news managment script for my friend who wants to publish his own web comic. I noticed that a lot of my favorite comics (Questionable Content, VG Cats) all use custom coded solutions. I figured since I'm already developing this application I might as well get the opinions of the average comic site user as to what they look for, develop it, and then offer it as a free application to the community.
Any opions, thoughts, or suggestions on this idea or ideas on what to put into the software would be very much appreciated!
For anyone thats courious, here is what I have so far:
ASP.NET v2 /w MS_SQL/MySQL/MsAccess/XFD backend (selectable)
Support for unlimited users
Support for custom permissions/roles
Comic
Add/upload/edit/delete comics.
Ability to post comics to the future and have them show up on that date.
Ability to set comics to hidden/visible.
Ability to link comics to a news posts and have the comic stay auto-hidden until news is posted, or vise versa.
Ability to auto-gen links on the comic view page by id/date with url rewrite (Ex /comic/<id>/ or /comic/<yyyy>/<mm>/<dd>/)
- The script auto-detects the method being used and formats all links appropriatly
News
WYSIWYG/XHTML editor for news/blog
Penny-Arcade style news posting (by date with replies)