Keentags not working

OkoYaki Comics · Post by **OkoYaki Comics** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:59 pm

Hello all, and thank you for your time with this (as this has probably already been answered before--I couldn't find it, hence this post).

I've been trying for the past week to get a better handle on HTML, and today, despite my breakthrough (I finally got a page to look like I wanted it to), I still apparently don't know what I'm doing.

While my coloring and layout is exactly like I want, my keentags appear as keentags. For example, ***todays_comic*** shows no comic at all; it just merely displays the text "***todays comic***."

I am at my wit's end with this--in an effort to avoid the inevitable blast of profanities (and anything within reach), I felt it necessary to come to you. In the interim, to keep my comic's site from looking like garbage, I will be using Ping Teo's Charcoal--below is the code I've been trying to use.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html lang="en" xml:lang="en"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head><title> ***comic_name*** - ***todays_date*** </title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#A1F4BB" text="#000000" link="#0003B8" vlink="#0003B8" alink="#9C3A3A">
<div class="keen_ad" style="display:inline; align="center">

<center>

<font face="Comic Sans">

***advertisement***
</div>
<div class="main" align=center>
<h1>OkoYaki Comics presents . . .</h1>
</font>
<p>
<table cellpadding="5" cellspacing="2" border="0" width="80%">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#60FC6D" align=center>
<img src="/images/banner.jpg" alt="Banner">
<p>by ***author***
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#60FC6D" align=center>
<font face = "Helvetica">

<a href= http://www.facebook.com/pages/OkoYakiComics/132117290138251>Facebook!</a> &nbsp; 
<a href= http://twitter.com/OkoYakiComics>Twitter!</a>
 &nbsp; 
<a href= mailto:okoyakicomics@gmail.com>Email!</a>
<p> 
***first_day*** ***previous_day*** ***next_day*** ***last_day***

<p>
***todays_comics***

<p>
***first_day*** ***previous_day*** ***next_day*** ***last_day***

<p>***calendar***

<p> Character, About Me, and Store pages coming soon!

<p> 
<a href= http://www.facebook.com/pages/OkoYakiComics/132117290138251>Facebook!</a> &nbsp; 
<a href= http://twitter.com/OkoYakiComics>Twitter!</a>
 &nbsp; 
<a href= mailto:okoyakicomics@gmail.com>Email!</a>
</font>
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td bgcolor="#60FC6D">
<font face = "Helvetica" size="2">
<center>
***comic_name*** is Copyright ©2011 Michael Greene.  All Rights Reserved.
***comic_name*** is hosted on <a href="http://www.keenspace.com">Comic Genesis</a>, a free webhosting and site automation service for webcomics.
</center>
</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>

<font face = "Helvetica" size=1>This design is based on a template created by Ping Teo of <a href="http://thejaded.keenspace.com">The Jaded</a>.  The 'Charcoal Indextemplate' is free-use for all Keenspacers.</font>

</font>


</center>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Thank you all for your time and consideration on this--I'm greatly obliged.

Best,
Michael Greene

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:54 pm

Do you have your comic images named in YYYYMMDD format? That is, are your comic images named, for example, 20110806? The "todays comic" tag works by finding the image that matches today's (or the most recent update's) date.

OkoYaki Comics · Post by **OkoYaki Comics** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:44 pm

Yes I do--and it's not just the ***todays_comic*** tag that doing this--every single keentag in the code is displaying text only.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:34 pm

OkoYaki Comics wrote:Yes I do--and it's not just the ***todays_comic*** tag that doing this--every single keentag in the code is displaying text only.

Strange! Mind linking to your page so I can see it?

Be aware that the keentags won't be effective if you're just viewing the page while you're editing- for instance, if you just open the html file on your computer. You'll only be able to see them in play once you've uploaded them via your FTP*. Sorry if this is information you already knew.

*If you upload the files to your FTP, you'll either need to wait until your comic is automatically scheduled to update to see the results (though they may not appear right away, in which case check again in an hour or so) or use SiteAdmin to manually update your comic. If you don't know how to do that, I explained it a little bit in this thread. However, if that's not clear, please let me know and I can try wording it another way. Naturally this only applies if that's your actual problem

robotthepirate · Post by **robotthepirate** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 2:48 pm

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Be aware that the keentags won't be effective if you're just viewing the page while you're editing- for instance, if you just open the html file on your computer. You'll only be able to see them in play once you've uploaded them via your FTP*. Sorry if this is information you already knew.

This was my first guess at a solution. Are you looking at the site on your computer or after its been uploaded and updated?

OkoYaki Comics · Post by **OkoYaki Comics** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:14 pm

Sorry for the delay--other job (the paying one).

This was looking at the page after two full updates; all other browser windows and editors were closed prior to the update, to ensure any such above mentioned instances.

@VeryCuddlyCornpone--not entirely sure how to link my page to yours.

Thanks again, everyone.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:22 pm

OkoYaki Comics wrote:Sorry for the delay--other job (the paying one).

This was looking at the page after two full updates; all other browser windows and editors were closed prior to the update, to ensure any such above mentioned instances.

@VeryCuddlyCornpone--not entirely sure how to link my page to yours.

Thanks again, everyone.

I meant just post a link here in the forum, like just copy the URL and paste it here.

OkoYaki Comics · Post by **OkoYaki Comics** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 1:10 pm

Okay--as I said earlier, I'm using a different (slightly less than what I wanted, but, hey, can't beat free for right now) template to ensure that my comic is online and readable.

http://okoyakicomics.comicgenesis.com

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 1:46 pm

Hmm, everything seems okay when I look at it- no keentags showing or anything. Is it still showing up funky for you? Maybe try clearing your cache and see if it works then.

Isukiyomi · Post by **Isukiyomi** » Wed Oct 05, 2011 3:28 pm

Hi folks! My advertisement tag has stopped working on both of my sites

isukiyomi.comicgenesis.com
tehuti.comicgenesis.com

any clue as to what's going on?

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:54 am

It appears to be all on your end, as I'm seeing ads when I click your sites just fine. Strange!

Isukiyomi · Post by **Isukiyomi** » Thu Oct 06, 2011 8:16 pm

@VeryCuddlyCornpone - thanks for checking! It *is* a browser issue

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:04 am

Awesome! Glad to hear it.

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