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Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:56 am**

Hello, all. I know this is probalby a moronic question that is asked 32-millon times a day, but I'm still not sure if I understand the whole consept of tags. I'm trying to make new name graphics for my comic (you know, ***comic_name***) but I havn't the slightest clue where to put the tag, or what to do to the image I want to use for it. Do I have to host my image somewhere, then take the URL and connect it to the tag? if so..how? and how do you make a tag? I mean...what kind of document do you use? I've read gear, and know how to upload, but i don't know jack about html. I'm begining to think that's the problem. So...If it's not to much trouble, can someone please please give me a step-by-step guide? please?

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 9:21 am**

The ***comic_name*** tag will only display you comic's name as text. To use an image as a title, you'll need to first upload said image to your images folder. Then, you'll need to use a bit of simple HTML code to display it on your page. For example, the code I use to display my title image is as thus:

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<img src="/images/title.gif">

If you're not using tables (as an apparent HTML neophyte, you quite possibly aren't...you might want to read up on basic HTML, by the way), add a couple of <br> tags to the end of that if you want the image to be displayed above the comic instead of beside it.

Posted: **Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:28 am**

Always a good resource:

http://yourhtmlsource.com/

As for the ***comic_name*** tag, as Cope said it's for having your comic name appear as text wherever you want it.

For me, I put it in the top of my .html file inside the <head><title></title></head> tags, which changes the name on the top of the browser. If you look above, it says "Comic Genesis :: View topic - Problems with tags". That's done by adding text in between the <title> tags.

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 4:05 pm**

But where do you placethe tag? Is it to be typed onto a word file, and uploaded in a spesific format? Or do you type it into the little box that says "remote upload" in the butch FTP?

Posted: **Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:49 pm**

mlaatem_Popcorn wrote:But where do you placethe tag? Is it to be typed onto a word file, and uploaded in a spesific format? Or do you type it into the little box that says "remote upload" in the butch FTP?

Heh, oh. You never really made it clear as to what level of newbie you were.

Well that website I gave you before is still where I'd point you to. I could take my time to write it out in my own words, but their explanaition is way better anyway.

http://yourhtmlsource.com/myfirstsite/myfirstpage.html

This will get you started from absolute scratch. If you read through this you should be able to glean what is necessary to make use of basic HTML tags.

Just remember that your HTML file must be called indextemplate.html and you're good to go.

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:54 am**

A tag is just something you type into your html document. It requires no formatting. It's simple text inside your html document.

The tags are changed by ComicGenesis, when you update your comic, into whatever they are supposed to be.

You type: ***advertisement*** it becomes: an add like the ones at the top of all the ComicGenesis comics.

You type: ***comic_name*** it becomes: the name you registered your comic as.

You type: ***calendar*** it becomes: a calendar showing the currentm month and which days you have updated.

You type: ***first_comic*** it becomes: a link to your first comic. Alternatively, if you have a file named first_comic.gif in your images folder, then it becomes a link with that picture as the link.

A full list of tags, and what they become, is available in the guide - it's called the Tagtorial, I believe.

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 6:34 pm**

So you just make a html document in microsoft word, type in some lovely little text that Cope has provided ever so nicely, upload it under images, run a full update, and your set?

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:23 pm**

Never, ever use Word to create webpages. It puts in loads of "junk code" that will mess things up. Use NotePad (NOT WordPad) or another 100% "neutral" program.

Only images (.jpg, .gif., .png) files go into your image folder. html documents go elsewhere.

Here's the rundown once again. I'm not sure how much you know about html and editing pages, the way your questions are worded make it look like you might not know much on the subject. If you need more info, could you please tell us just how much you know? We assume you know the basics, but if you don't what we are saying may look like gibberish to you.

You have two documents in your workspace directory: indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html . The first is used by ComicGenesis' automated updater to create your index.html (your comic's home page), the second to create your archived comics pages. To edit these pages, first download them to your comp, edit them locally and upload the new versions, overwriting the old ones.

In the two templates documents, you have ***tags***. ***Tags*** are used in place of actual code for some elements. The automated updater converts these ***tags*** into actual code when creating your pages. The ***comic_name*** tag will only put your comic's name as text, so if you want an image, create the image, upload it to the "images" folder, remove the ***comic_name*** tag and replace it with the appropriate html code to display the image.

Posted: **Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:07 pm**

If I were you I would go to http://www.thejaded.co.uk/workshop/Facelift.html
Thats were I went when I first started. I only knew a just a bit of HTML. Its like comic site instructions! It gives step by step instuctions to stuff like that. As a mater of fact i was wondering the exact thing you are. And it told me how to do it.
http://www.thejaded.co.uk/workshop/index.html
Lots of other good learning stuff there to.