Tags and HTML Examples

Bryy · Post by **Bryy** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 2:44 am

Hi. I'm a starting out webcomic writer. i have a space and everything, but i was wondering if i could see some examples of what the html coding of indextemplatte and dailytemplate actually should look like.Anything would be helpful. Right now I have a date that says Saturday, December 0.

Bryy · Post by **Bryy** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 1:10 am

ok, well, thanks.
my date says saturday, december 0, my first comic goes up on halloween, i got the ad, the comic name, and the author name.and it says ***todays_comic***, even though that was done in html

Tirdun · Post by **Tirdun** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 8:56 am

Here's a chunk of mine. <body>
***include topbar.html***
***todays_comics***
***include navbar.html***
***include news.html***
</body>The ***include filename*** is pretty cool, because I can update the news box on my front page (Using news.html, which is just a block of text and HTML) without modifying the indextemplate.html file. The "topbar" and "navbar" are navigation links that appear above and below the main comic. I use those includes on all my pages so that if I update or add a link to one page, it goes to all of them. The "topbar" page has the
***advertisement***
tag that is oh-so-important to keenspace.The ***todays_comic*** is just a special include, it pulls any files with today's date (yyyymmdd.whatever) onto your page. So create image files like 20011201.gif (december 1, 2001) and on that date, it'll copy from your /workspace/comics directory. If you want "blurbs" call them 20011201extra.html and they'll show up, too.My dailytemplate is essentially the same. ------------------
Brian West
aka Tirdun
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Prankster · Post by **Prankster** » Wed Oct 03, 2001 10:59 am

That is pretty Frickin' cool, Tirdun!!So, let me get this straight. You can just put in the ***include whatever.html*** tag and it'll nest another html file inside the indextemplate? Sort of like having a frame? If so, that's darned cool. Or is there more to it?Also, here's a question that's been gnawing at me. I've had thoughts of including a second, weekly comic strip on my site. Is there a way of doing this so that the two strips don't get interwoven?