Okay, before we begin, let me just say that I'm a total newbie when it comes to coding or website programming or pretty much anything that would be important here. Thus, my handicap.
I've got volumes of comics built up and no real good way to archive them in a manner that makes it easy for readers to find specific comics. Because my comic is broken into 12 subcomics, the traditional storyline function doesn't work well, and even given that, there'd be a phenomenally long list.
I've got a list of the comics, as sorted under each subcomic, by date, with names of that specific day's installment as a hotlink to that day. But these I have to set up manually, and it's a chore doing it every day (and I always fall way behind).
So I'm trying for one or more of the following:
1. Find a way to simply label all the comics, and have some sort of automatic script or tag or something (like I said, I'm code-handicapped) manually archive the links on the archive page so I don't have to manually add a hyperlink and re-upload the page every day.
2. Go for a Sexy-Losers style browsing, which adds extra back and forth arrows -- for example, in addition to the regular "First strip, previous strip, next strip, today's strip", you would also see "last 'Goddamn Rabbits' strip, next 'Goddamn Rabbits' strip", or "last 'Neon Lives', next 'Neon Lives'", etc., which allows for quicker browsing in themes. This would be handy, and I'd love to have it, but though it speeds up browsing (rather than going day by day), by itself, it's not really enough.
3. A Penny-Arcade style word-search which allows you to search for, say, "zelweger" and have the comic strip about ren
Complicated comic archiving: Can it be done automatically?
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I've got a little subcomic running dug intermissions in Reasoned Cognition. I wrote a cheap and dirty javascript that displays a table of all the links to the strips, as well as a next and last. Then, I just add an html document with a call to that javascript whenever I do an update to that comic. Then all I have to do is edit the one javascript page and all the pages for that comic will display the new information.
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