Where do I begin?

Floppity · Post by **Floppity** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:04 am

I've read over the wiki tutorial beginners guide, but I'm still kind of clueless as to where I start editing my pages. What's the difference between the indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html? Which one do I edit? I'm reading as many of these Comic Genesis tutorials as I can, but they seem to be all over the place. Some concise information would be much appreciated!

Oh, my FTP works fine and I've been uploading comics and images to the workspace. Also, I haven't successfully logged in to the SiteAdmin yet (I got my site last night) which is frustrating, but that's a whole other thread lol.

Thanks!

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:42 am

indextemplate - this becomes index.html - the home page of your site.

dailytemplate - this becomes the archive page for each of your previous comics.

You edit them both.

Log into siteadmin using your forum userid and password, not your account userid and password. Although right this very moment it's being glitchy.

Anything else?

Floppity · Post by **Floppity** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:08 am

oh gotcha. Just one more thing, I have a template designed for my site in html, where do I add it in indextemplate? Thank you very much rkolter for clearing stuff up for me!

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:04 am

Floppity: If you have an entire html page ready to go, you would rename it "indextemplate.html" or "dailytemplate.html" and upload it to your workspace folder. It would then take the place of the default one you are given when you sign up.

Advise you to save a copy of the basic indextemplate on your computer so you can revert to that if things don't work. (don't panic if you accidentally lose the basic one. One of the FAQ in the forum contains the basic templates if you lose them.)

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:20 am

Also don't forget, that template you designed MUST have the ***advertisement*** tag somewhere at the top of the page, and a link to ComicGenesis at the bottom of the pge.