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hi.

i just got my ComicGenesis site up and it is turning out to be a lot harder then i thought it would.

i have been hosting my site on the studentweb space, and now i want my Comicgenesis site to look similar. but i can't find anyplace to to put HTML code or anything like that, so i am very confused.

how would i bulid a comicgenesis site that looks like THIS

or you can just click on the link in my sig.

-halo

Halo299 wrote: how would i bulid a comicgenesis site that looks like THIS

so from what i read it looks like i can't.

hmm

ok. i can deal with that.

one more question. I have my comics up right now (all 40+ of them) and it all seems to be working ok (save that it is butt ugly, and i have no achive) but for some reason i don't understand, Comic #1 isn't showing up. there is a page for it, but there is no comic there.

any ideas what might be causeing this?

-halo

Halo299 wrote:

Halo299 wrote: how would i bulid a comicgenesis site that looks like THIS

so from what i read it looks like i can't.

Yes, you can. You just need to ad the ads and "hosted on comicgenesis" bit. What is the perceived problem?

one more question. I have my comics up right now (all 40+ of them) and it all seems to be working ok (save that it is butt ugly, and i have no achive) but for some reason i don't understand, Comic #1 isn't showing up. there is a page for it, but there is no comic there.

any ideas what might be causeing this?

-halo

That's the comic you submitted when you created the account, right? Delete it from public_html/comics, upload it to workspace/comics and trigger a manual regular update. The submitted comic is sometimes buggy once the account is created (don't ask me why).

for some reason i don't understand, Comic #1 isn't showing up. there is a page for it, but there is no comic there.

any ideas what might be causeing this?

-halo

That's the comic you submitted when you created the account, right? Delete it from public_html/comics, upload it to workspace/comics and trigger a manual regular update. The submitted comic is sometimes buggy once the account is created (don't ask me why).

I'm having the same problem. I deleted it from public_html/comics, uploaded it again to workspace/comics, and did a regular update. Then I added a new comic and did another update. The new comic showed up, but #1 is still not.

http://cooties.comicgenesis.com

I see it just fine, perk_daddy. You mean the comic for 2006-06-23, right?

Holy crap in a hat. It's finally there. It must be the collective genius mental energy of all you guys or something...

Oualawouzou wrote:

Halo299 wrote:

Halo299 wrote: how would i bulid a comicgenesis site that looks like THIS

so from what i read it looks like i can't.

Yes, you can. You just need to ad the ads and "hosted on comicgenesis" bit. What is the perceived problem?

Really!?

i suppose i am just dreading the impending learning curve. What i was lookign for was just a way to use simple HTML code to create my site.

which there dosen't seem to be.

(i have no problem adding ads and what not to the site, it is just the nature of the creating proccess that i'm not understanding.)

but the things that are troubleing me right now are (at least on a mental level)

how to create a homepage that dosen't display my latest comic, but rather a link to it. Like 8-bit theater, Sexy Losers, or Order of the Stick.

and an achive that displays the number and name of my comics rather than the date they were added. Like Sam the Clam or 8-bit theater.

and a place to add a hit counter like the one that is on my site now.

as well as a way to link to other pages so i can have a 'links page' as well as keep my original forum.

any suggestions to these problems will help me a great deal. thank you all very much.

-halo

You can just update everything without using autokeen by just using the ftp login and copying the files over to the public_html directory. So assuming you have everything ready to go, you can go to ftp://butch.keenspot.com (note that it's keenspot not keenspace) and then use your username and password there (ftp://yoursitename.comicgenesis.com should also work). Then copy and paste everything over to the public_html directory.

This is without using the autokeen script to automatically update your comic. You can experiment with autokeen, read up about it, and see if you can incorporate it into your site. While using autokeen does make everything simpler, if you find something it just can't do for you, then you can try updating it by hand, and maybe even use some Javascript to make updating it a little easier. I think the only problem you could have with autokeen would be the details about the page names, and an archive in the way that you want it (the last of which you can just manually upload anyway). However, I must stress that I don't know much about autokeen myself, since always use ftp to update my site.

First of all, the Tutorials. They don't answer every question yet, but they're a good place to start.

Halo299 wrote: i suppose i am just dreading the impending learning curve. What i was lookign for was just a way to use simple HTML code to create my site.

which there dosen't seem to be.

(i have no problem adding ads and what not to the site, it is just the nature of the creating proccess that i'm not understanding.)

If what is bugging you are the ***tags*** and automated process, think of it this way... ***tags*** are HTML placeholders. I.e. instead of putting the HTML code for the "next comic" button, you put ***next_comic*** and the server will come up with the appropriate bit of HTML coding. You put pages with ***tags*** in the workspace folder, the automatic updater goes through them, replace the ***tags*** with appropriate HTML code and make the pages available by putting them in public_html.

In the case of indextemplate.html and dailytemplate.html, well, it's the same thing except that indextemplate.html will be used by the updater to create index.html, and dailytemplate.html will be used to create all of your archived comics pages.

Did that make sense to you?

but the things that are troubleing me right now are (at least on a mental level)

how to create a homepage that dosen't display my latest comic, but rather a link to it. Like 8-bit theater, Sexy Losers, or Order of the Stick.

Well, the default homepage is index.html (created off indextemplate.html, as mentionned above). So for this to work, you'd have to do the following:

1) Remove the ***todays_comics*** tag from indextemplate.html.
2) Create the page you want to use to display your most recent comic. Let's say you name it "main.html". Put the ***todays_comics*** tag on it where you want the comic to show up. (Adding new pages tutorial)
3) For your navigation buttons, do not use the ***last_day*** tag. Instead, put in the code to link to your main.html page.

and an achive that displays the number and name of my comics rather than the date they were added. Like Sam the Clam or 8-bit theater.

Adding text and comments tutorial. It's not ideal, but it's the best solution at the present time IMHO.

and a place to add a hit counter like the one that is on my site now.

Well, simply go to whatever site offers free hit counters and follow the instructions there. There is the Webalizer, accessible through siteadmin, that collects some data about traffic on your site, but it's not something public.

as well as a way to link to other pages so i can have a 'links page' as well as keep my original forum.

Well, the previously linked addind new pages tutorial.

If any of these things seem complicated to you, tackle them step-by-step. Have your FTP and HTML editor ready and progress one step at a time. Yes, sometimes, it looks scary, but it's really easy to learn. I was totally HTML and site management illiterate (sp?) before comicgenesis, and though I'm not a pro, I can't find my way around quite easily now.