Need help with custom HTML! Keenspace routinely writing over

Amirai · Post by **Amirai** » Sat Nov 17, 2001 9:24 am

Here's my problem. I want to do custom layouts for my pages, and place individual images/panels in specific places on the daily pages.So, I put the comics in, update, and then take the html generated in the public_html directory and edit it to suit my needs. Then I upload it back, overwriting the original, and everything's dandy.Until a couple days later, when Keenspace apparently rewrites all the html in my public_html/d/ directory, bringing them back to the way they were before - images one after another, left to right. A perfect example of my problem - a recent comic where I wanted to have the character falling a really long way - but I knew that if I made an image file 7 feet long it would take forever to load. So, with HTML, made this, the correct version: <A HREF="http://cga.keenspace.com/d/20011107.html" TARGET=_blank>http://cga.keenspace.com/d/20011107.html</A> When Keenspace rewrites everything, it turns it into this: <A HREF="http://cga.keenspace.com/d/20011107broken.html" TARGET=_blank>http://cga.keenspace.com/d/20011107broken.html</A> Kinda screws up the feel... So can anyone please help me fix this problem?? If I put the 'today's comics' tag in the dailytemplate, it just puts them all in side by side, and eliminates the possibility of doing any custom formatting because I need to put the formatting beween the panels. Please, how can I make a custom layout (html page) for each day and have it not get written over??[This message has been edited by Amirai (edited 11-17-2001).]

Atrus · Post by **Atrus** » Sat Nov 17, 2001 9:58 am

what you can do is save the html in a text file named using the same system (YYYYMMDD.txt) and put the images used in your images/ directory or put it in public_html/comics/ for consitency, but make sure it doesn't have a number in ti. I had to do this for <A HREF="http://maniacaladvantage.keenspace.com/d/20010927.html" TARGET=_blank>this comic</A> because it required a bit of javascript------------------
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Redmoon Twilight · Post by **Redmoon Twilight** » Sun Nov 18, 2001 5:18 am

What I have been doing recently in my comic is to display each panel as a diferent image. I have a three cell table (header, sidebar and main) as my indextemplate and my dailytemplate. I create a whole new table with the arragement I want in a separate html file with the YYYYMMDD name. I just make sure that it only has the table coding and that it calls up the panel images from the /image directory. Then is just a matter of putting the ***todays_comics*** tag in the main part of your indextemplate/dailytemplate table and have it put up whatever arragement you need for that day. I hope this helps.

Amirai · Post by **Amirai** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 10:49 am

I tried what you guys suggested, but now my page looks like this: <A HREF="http://cga.keenspace.com/d/20011015.html" TARGET=_blank>http://cga.keenspace.com/d/20011015.html</A> So it refrences the html file just fine - but it also sticks in the comics again anyways, giving me the day's comics twice. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/frown.gif"> That's from just using the today's comics tag.Do you know how I can fix that??

Seven3 · Post by **Seven3** » Tue Nov 20, 2001 12:56 pm

Put your comic images for that day somewhere else like a subdir ( folder ) in /images/ and reference to them from there. Keep them dated so you know what goes where.