If you’re a budding comic illustrator with dreams of creating a popular web comic, then the AeroTronic Theme from TheBuckmaker.com is most definitely a theme for you. With plenty of space in the writing column to show off your latest works, the theme also provides you with two sidebar columns, and you therefore have much space to place appropriate advertisements and all other widgets that you require.
The sidebar is more than wide enough to add a slideshow widget, and when running a web comic; a slideshow can be a very strong way of making your readers aware of your other works. If the web comic visitor is viewing one of your strips then they’re likely to be interested in reading others also, and the slideshow could serve as a very useful tool for getting your readers to stick around longer at your comic.
As well as the slideshow, the sidebar space can also be used to draw attention to your most recent works using the ‘Recent Posts’ widget, and you’re really able to make sure that your readers are kept aware of all the comics that you have most recently been working on. Even with the slideshow displayed and the most recent posts highlighted also; there will still be plenty of sidebar space to spare, and it really is possible to add to your blog all of the features that you require.
There’s space here for a 320x265 YouTube video, and you may wish to use this space to get your readers to know you a little better. It could work well to upload to YouTube a video in which you discuss your web comic; your aims, your goals, and your hopes for the web comic. It would be an interesting feature for your blog, and would help your readers to relate to you a little more as a comic illustrator. The comic is displayed proudly on the left hand side of the page, and with the right side of your blog highlighting your other important web comic works; the blog is designed to make your readers stick around for as long as possible, and with the Aerotronic theme activated on your blog your readers are sure to wish to return in the future, and you can begin building up the popular web comic that you desire.
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