WICKED IDEA

[Shoe]

Suggestion really, and I know it would be hard to implement, but here goes. How about a reviewtemplate or articletemplate.html. I know many of the writers for various comics are aspiring journalists, or maybe not, but wouldn't it be cool instead of having to build a new html file every time we want to add an article?

Right now I have two articles on my site. If I could upload a .txt file with an article in it, and have Autokeen build the page for me, that would be much more useful. Anyways, that's my two cents. Later...

[Nick Sacco]

I don't think I understand..

Oooh, you like T2? My SN is "SupernovaYeti", I usually play the TAC2 mod.

[Shoe]

Yea, T2 r0xx0rs. I'm dasmonki. I usually play base++ or Renegades.

Anyways, let me try to explain again. With the comics, you have, for example, 20020401.jpg. When that date rolls around, Autokeen creates an html file in /archives/d/ or whatever it is. It places that image in the HTML file, wherever you put the tag ***todays_comic*** on the dailytemplate.html file.

With my idea, you put another tag, ie ***todays_article*** on a file, articletemplate.html. Let's say I make a file called 20020401.txt, and place it in an articles directory on my keenspace account. Autokeen then takes the txt file, and places it in an html file in let's say /articles/d/20020401.html.

Basically, instead of doing just comics, you can use autokeen to do articles/rants/reviews/previews/whatever

[Kisai]

However, keenspace is for comics ^^;

What I suggested (don't know if it went anywhere) was a rawdate tag, that way you could iframe another page that can be updated in independant manner.

so you just include something that goes

<iframe src="rant***rawdate***.html">Oops your browser doesn't support iframes, you should see my rant <a target="_new" href="rant***rawdate***.html">today</a>.</iframe>

(a better way would be to have a cgi script that loads up the appropriate rant and shows an earlier one if it can't find one.)

The problem IMO, is that many people seem to be more interested in a online journal/diary/blog/rant than doing the comic. However the online journal's hold no value on their own.

A while I'm on this topic...

Blogger is generally unsafe to combine with keenspace. If you want to use blogger, you should make a separate blogger page and iframe it in your indextemplate , this way you don't need keenspace to reparse the blogger every time you update it.

[Shoe]

ok

[Nick Sacco]

Look at how http://trialsandtrivializations.keenspace.com/ incorperated LiveJournal onto their page. Maybe this may be of interest.

[Shoe]

Thanks Nick.