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HTML Help Please!
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:23 pm
by Sedition
Alright I've gotten a few pages up and I've gotten things sorted out. Now I'm trying to go about designing my webpage. But I'm not exactly sure how that works. I have Macromemedia Dreamweaver and Photoshop 7.0. Can I use Dreamweaver? Is it just like building a regular webpage? How do I get it published onto my site?
I've read through the tutorials but the tags still confuse me, how do I use them? I'm familiar with HTML, I've actually built a webpage or two and I've designed themes for other things. Am I just thinking to hard on this?
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 4:34 pm
by Oualawouzou
Think of ***tags*** as simple place-holders. The automatic updater replaces all ***tags*** with the corresponding HTML code, nothing more, nothing less. That's why you have to upload all of your pages in the workspace folder: the updater looks for pages in the workspace folder, then looks for ***tags*** in those pages, then create the pages that show up in your public_html folder by replacing all the ***tags*** with the appropriate code.
I'm not sure about Dreamweaver, I know some HTML editors "break" the pages by automatically adding in junk code. We really ought to put up a list of editors that aren't compatible with Comicgenesis one of these days...
Front Page anyone?
Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:28 am
by Dr_Destruction
Most web design programs replace * with ∗ to fix this open it in Notepad and edit it manually.
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:04 am
by Sedition
Okay, thanks! I'll it out and see if I can get it to work, I can always come back here if I don't get it.
Just one quick question, when I put in the tags I leave the '**' in them, and just edit them in notepad when they're changed by the program?
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:27 am
by Oualawouzou
I don't understand your question...
You put the ***tags*** in your pages. You upload them to the workspace folder if you are working on indextemplate.html or dailytemplate.html, and in workspace/webpages for ALL other pages.
Then, you trigger a regular manual update or wait 24 hours. The updater goes through the files in workspace and workspace/webpages and create the actual pages visitors will see on your site, replacing all the ***tags*** with appropriate code. You shouldn't have to edit any "tag code" yourself.