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[Spectralsingularity]

Alright here's my question. Can I update my site without using keenspace's automation? Now I know keenspace offers alot of very cool, very helpful features, but as of right now I'm having alot of trouble getting them to work for me (yes I've read the help forums, consulted html savy friends etc...) so I know alot of people might read this and bombard me responses about how I shouldn't give up. And I'm not, I intend to use keenspace's automation in the future, but for now it seems easier for me to update my site manually rather then take a week at a time to deal with every problem that pops up. It seems like in theory all I have to do is make a new folder in my public director or workspace directory called something like "strips" and upload my comics to that folder and just link my archive buttons and next, previous buttons etc.. to that directory. But can I do this? Am I going to have any problems with my comics directory or dailyarchive template since I won't be using them? If anybody knows, please let me know.

[ZOMBIE USER 8124]

You don't have to use a separate folder for the comics, just drop them into "Public_html/comics/" directory. Then you just use 'em. It's how I do it, and it's worked for me. Here's the code I use to display my comic. Just cut and paste it, set the height attributes to your comic, and change the file name, and you're all set.

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<div id="layer23" style="position:absolute;left:158;top:474;width:470;height:594;">
<table width=470 height=594 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign="top">
	<td><a href="/comics/psc20020413.jpg"><img height=594 width=470 src="/images/site images/psc20020413.jpg" border=0 ></a></td>
</tr></table></div>

Hope this is helpful!

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-Megami Yanagi-
Mistress of the Realm of Light, keeper of the all-male-anime-characters-harem, and own

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kisai on 2002-04-19 22:18 , fixed broken post ]</font>

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kisai on 2002-04-19 22:19 ]</font>

[ZOMBIE USER 8124]

You don't have to use a separate folder for the comics, just drop them into "Public_html/comics/" directory. Then you just use 'em. It's how I do it, and it's worked for me. Here's the code I use to display my comic. Just cut and paste it, set the height attributes to your comic, and change the file name, and you're all set.

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<div id="layer23" style="position:absolute;left:158;top:474;width:470;height:594;">
<table width=470 height=594 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr valign="top">
	<td><a href="/comics/psc20020413.jpg"><img height=594 width=470 src="/images/site images/psc20020413.jpg" border=0 ></a></td>
</tr></table></div>

Hope this is helpful!
Sorry about the previous post, I broke it >_< I'm continually doing that. I forgot the block-code tags. Forgive meeee!!!!!!
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<a href="http://psc.keenspace.com"><img height=65 width=405 src="http://psc.keenspace.com/images/site images/pscbanner3.gif" border=0 ></a>

-Megami Yanagi-
Mistress of the Realm of Light, keeper of the all-male-anime-characters-harem, and own

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Yanagi-San on 2002-04-19 19:41 ]</font>

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Yanagi-San on 2002-04-19 19:42 ]</font>

[Todd Michaels]

Keep in mind that you shouldn't be putting any pages directly in public_html, because even if you take care of linking pages manually, the autoupdater needs to be able to take care of the ***advertisement*** replacement.

And I guess I'm one of the ones who will bombard you with "keep trying". If you plan to stick around for any length of time, it really is better to get it figured out now, before you have a bunch of comics to go back and fix if you even decide to try again.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to start an e-mail conversation about helping you set up your site. I used to be one of the Keenspace Wranglers (help personnel) but had to stop due to time constraints. But I still want to help out here and there, and they may not have time for individual help right away. (If any of them read this and think I'm stepping on toes, I don't mean to!)

[Kisai]

The only error that comes up on my diagnostic screen is:

***todays_comics*** appears in dailytemplate.html: NO

Which means that your comic archives aren't being created properly, because the tag is missing or misspelled.


Changing the code manually is a total pain in the ass unless you have a program like dreamweaver or frontpage which puts everything directly to the website...

However the problem is that you have still put the ad code in.

I suggest that you only skip autokeen as a last resort (disable by renaming NOT deleting indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html) but generally the only people who need to override this behavior are people who use WYSIWYG interfaces.

However remember the ***tags*** only work on pages uploaded to /workspace/webpages, and the comic pages only change if indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html are present and have the ***todays_comics*** tag in it.