next_day tag

[Avatar007]

Finally got my site online, and the only grievous error that I found is in one of my navigation buttons. For some reason, the ***next_day*** tag that I use isn't being handled by auotkeen (shows up as nothing in the index.html file after updating).

The website is <a href="http://coldfeet.comicgenesis.com">Cold Feet</a>, and as you can see at the top right there's one nav button missing. My website code (snippet of interest) is as follows:

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<div class="comNav" style="float:right;"> 
	
	<ul>
		<li>***first_day***</li>
		<li>***previous_day***</li>
		<li>***next_day***</li>
		<li>***last_day***</li>
	</ul>

</div>

Thoughts?

Thanks for your help.

[LibertyCabbage]

Try putting a space between the <li> tags and the codes. Comicgen is probably reading the <li> tags and the navigation tag as one entity.

So,

<li> ***first_day*** </li>

instead of

<li>***first_day***</li>

I don't see why the ***next_day*** was excluded but see if it works after you do these changes.

[Oualawouzou]

You have only one comic on your site, right? Unless I'm mistaken, the ***next_day*** icon will not display until you have two comics.

[Avatar007]

Try putting a space between the <li> tags and the codes. Comicgen is probably reading the <li> tags and the navigation tag as one entity.

Tried the spaces thing already, didn't work. Besides which, the other three tags work with the same non-spacing.

You have only one comic on your site, right? Unless I'm mistaken, the ***next_day*** icon will not display until you have two comics.

It should use my next_day_ghosted.png image, the same as the other three buttons, right?


Is it possible that the ***next_day*** tag is actually syntactically incorrect? I mean, is it actually supposed to be ***next_comic*** or something simple like that?

[Oualawouzou]

If you have only one comic, the ***next_day*** tag will do nothing at all: no text link, no image, no ghosted image. As soon as you upload a second one, it will correctly use the ghosted image on your index page and the regular image on the archived comics pages.

[Avatar007]

Oh. That's kind of strange, considering the other three show up regardless of only having a single comic online.

Thanks for the info!

[KittyKatBlack]

Oh. That's kind of strange, considering the other three show up regardless of only having a single comic online.

Thanks for the info!

Yeah. I still don't know why it's just that one, but it is. I had the same problem when I started to. Someone really should get around to fixing that.

[Avatar007]

Ehm... Well, on my archive pages the ***next_day*** image shows up just fine. In my index.html page, however, the ghosted image is AWOL.

It couldn't be a typo in my code since I use the same code for both pages. The filenames are exactly "next_day.png" and "next_day_ghosted.png".

Is there some trick to this that I'm unaware of?

<a href="http://coldfeet.comicgenesis.com/">http ... is.com/</a>

[Phalanx]

Hm, I think I've heards news about ghosted images not working correctly. Haven't used any myself so can't say, but anyone here able to shed light on this if they've tried it?

[-Fanny pack]

Either ***next_day*** or ***last_day*** does not produce a ghosted image properly. I'm not sure which one it is, but I do know that it is one and not the other. I suppose, based on this thread, that it must be ***next_day***.

[Oualawouzou]

Yes it is. I just checked and only "last_day_ghosted.jpg" shows up on my index page as well.

One thing you can do is manually put in the "next_day_ghosted.jpg" image in your indextemplate.html instead of the ***next_day*** tag.

[-Fanny pack]

Yes it is. I just checked and only "last_day_ghosted.jpg" shows up on my index page as well.

One thing you can do is manually put in the "next_day_ghosted.jpg" image in your indextemplate.html instead of the ***next_day*** tag.

ORRRR you could put neither ***next_day*** nor ***last_day*** on the front page! Which simplifies everything!

[Phalanx]

http://longestsojourn.comicgenesis.com

I just directly link the images in my indextemplate. Since they don't need to be clicked a tag isn't needed anyway.

[Avatar007]

Unfortunately I can't just link the picture. Well, I could link the top navigation bar picture, but the bottom navigation bar is contained within my 20050901b.txt (etc.) files which are displayed in both the index.html page and the archive pages.

Is it possible that there's another workaround to this problem?

[Oualawouzou]

Text comment files (such as 20050901b.txt) are converted to html at the time of update. So you can replace ***next_day*** in your text files with the proper html code to display your next_day_ghosted image.

[Avatar007]

Text comment files (such as 20050901b.txt) are converted to html at the time of update. So you can replace ***next_day*** in your text files with the proper html code to display your next_day_ghosted image.

Except that in the archive pages -- where I want the actual button to be -- will instead be a static image.

Sorry to keep harping on the issue, but I would like to fix this issue.