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My new setup involves all of my navigation on the front page and my comic being display via a rather large iframe. However, I need to know how to make the nav page load as my index instead of my latest comic. Do i have to make the indextemplate into my nav page? or is there some trick I'm not thinking of?

Umm, well, if you want something to be in index.html you put it into indextemplate.html...

But I'd like to know more details of your setup, particulary, placement of the ***advertisement***...
You are aware it needs to be reloaded every time someone views another page of your comic, and that it has to be "above the fold"- that means more or less on top of your page, not too far to the right, right?

I guess my biggest question is about how "latest.html" will interact with the keentags.

jeffrey6283 wrote:My new setup involves all of my navigation on the front page and my comic being display via a rather large iframe. However, I need to know how to make the nav page load as my index instead of my latest comic. Do i have to make the indextemplate into my nav page? or is there some trick I'm not thinking of?

Word of advice:

Put your comic on the main page. People get really mad if you don't.
There are no benefits to not having it be there.

I agree with Terotrous. If the point of your page is to host a comic, then you're wasting people's time by not putting it on the main page.

Are you going to change the main page more often than your comic? If not, then why would your repeat viewers want to see that page over and over again? People continually come back to see the new stuff, not the giant page of things they've seen before.

If you really don't want to put the comic on the main page, you might just leave out the ***todays comics*** tag. That will make comics only appear in the archive.

Just add another vote...

not putting comic on main page = very bad idea.

From the way he was explaining it, Technicly the comic would be on the main page, but in a frame that was referencing a page that was NOT index.html. I think what he was asking (I could be wrong though) is if there's a way to get Autokeen to update the refrence page that holds his comic and not the index.html page. I'm not sure why he's using an iframe, and I don't really know how to get it to work, but I think that's what he's asking.

Why not reverse it? Have the index have the comic on it, and the Iframe have the stuff that he wanted on Index? Same effect, and Autokeen will update the comic as proper.

because then index.html would just be the comic stuff, without nav etc.

Theres an option in setting it up...

Login to http://siteadmin2.keenspace.com/cgi-bin ... /login.cgi, right? Hit Edit "comicname". The part that says "index page"... I'm guessing here, but since the default is index.html, just make it whatever page your iframe is referencing. Give it a shot; all may very well be hunky-dory.

Juss' tryin to help, dont blame me if it fucks up (ive never tried before)

Well if the Iframe code is put into the Indext pages' code, wouldn't it make the Iframe? Course, I'm not an HTML expert so I'll shut up

because then index.html would just be the comic stuff, without nav etc.

Theres an option in setting it up...

Login to http://siteadmin2.keenspace.com/cgi-bin ... /login.cgi, right? Hit Edit "comicname". The part that says "index page"... I'm guessing here, but since the default is index.html, just make it whatever page your iframe is referencing. Give it a shot; all may very well be hunky-dory.

Juss' tryin to help, dont blame me if it fucks up (ive never tried before)

Well if the Iframe code is put into the Indext pages' code, wouldn't it make the Iframe? Course, I'm not an HTML expert so I'll shut up

Am I seeing double? I haven't drank that much caffine yet, have I? *blinks*

KittyKatBlack wrote:From the way he was explaining it, Technicly the comic would be on the main page, but in a frame that was referencing a page that was NOT index.html. I think what he was asking (I could be wrong though) is if there's a way to get Autokeen to update the refrence page that holds his comic and not the index.html page. I'm not sure why he's using an iframe, and I don't really know how to get it to work, but I think that's what he's asking.

That's how I understood it too.

I advise against messing with settings at siteadmin. Some of the stuff wasn't fully implemented, or was meant to be used by people with indepth knowledge of the system, and hence is devoid of security procedures (ie. it's not fool proof)

about the "latest.html"- keentags will not "interact" with it.
You might be interested in two things though:
keenspace actually creates yyyymmdd.html file for the current comic, only it's not beeing linked to from anywhere.
You could use that together with ***todays_date*** keentag (that's the second thing).

Or you could just use autokeen and the templates like you're supposed to!