Alot of problems with site creation

[bluefiresword]

Hello everyone.
I came on to comic genesis to make my webcomic (obviously )
However I have encountered quite a few problems and anyone that can help me with this will have all of my apriciation. ( and a commission if they so fancy =D)

1. Updateing index

I have no accesss to site admin and as such alot of the suggestions I have read about seem null and void to me. I am still learning html and as such am making alot of mistakes and errors with my webpage creation. But the problem is that I have to wait untill midnight to see if what i have done has worked or not, and this seems like it will take an etirnity to get right at this rate. Is there a way of updating my index page without siteadmin.

2. Ftp confusion
When I do create my webpage I use imeges for my buttons and headers. I link them to the images on my computer. however I wonder, How will I get them onto the comic genesis server. I have uploaded them to The image folder in the ftp program i use (filezilla). However It sill Dose not find them and shows up with a blank space where i put the image. Can anyone explain this to me.

As far as I can think now thats all the problems I am facing right now. the rest I could figure out myself. but these obsticles are preventing me from making my website.
Thanks for reading that large wall of text, and I hope to hear from someone soon. thanks alot guys

[Dr Neo Lao]

I'll start with the easier question:

For the images, you need to link to them but remember that the link will start from where the link is. On a server, the "base" of your folders and such is called "root" (like plants). In filezilla, you'll know if you're looking at root because it'll list your server location as just / and nothing else. This is the "base" or "root" of your comic folder (note that this is not the correct use of "root", but it'll do for now).

In your comic folder, you will have two "images" folders (they are really the same, but treat them as two). One is /public_html/images and the other is /workspace/images. Upload all non-comic images to the one in workspace.

Now, to make a link:

If you have a html file and you make a link, it looks like this:

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<img src="name.jpg">

This assumes that the image is in the same folder as the html file. If you put the image into a folder called "images" then your link would look like this:

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<img src="images/name.jpg">

This assumes that you have a folder called "images" in the same place as the html file.

Now then, your images folder does not move. Your html files can be in different places. For example, the index page will be on root, the daily pages will be in the /d/ folder, you may have pages for each character in a /characters/ folder. You can use "root" to *cheat* and make sure that the html files find the images no matter where the html file is.

How? Like this:

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<img src="/images/name.jpg">

Looks the same as above, except that it has that backslash: src="/images/name.jpg" - that slash makes all the diference. This tells the server "start looking in root" and it will find your image files, always. So if you have a banner called banner.jpg in the images folder then you can link to it from any page, anywhere on your comic with:

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<img src="/images/banner.jpg">

Hope you were able to follow that.

The buttons are a little easier, depending on the button. The prev / next / first etc buttons are just uploaded to the images folder and the server puts them in on it's own. Refer to the CGWiki tutorials section and it goes into detail about it. Other buttons (such as a link to the archive page) can be treated that same as the banner.jpg example above.

As for forcing an update, that's something I'm not sure about. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

[bluefiresword]

Man that's incredibly helpful. thank you very much.
That information Is going to save a lot of trail and error thank you once again.
If you fancy that commission Just pm me And Ill get right on it.