Question for "Blogging"

Woapalanne · Post by **Woapalanne** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 8:47 am

I'm starting up a semi-seperate page on my comic to help educate the masses on a fantasy language that I'm using in the comic (cf Tolkein

). The link to that is http://www.ucrats.com/BTT/ . Each lesson would be on its own page, with a click-through and dropdown menu available. Now, I'd really like to NOT have to edit the pages to keep the dropdown and buttons that I'm going to add up to date... is there any way to make this run just like the main page does, so it'd update automatically and autofix all the links? Should I just sign up for another Keen account? Help!

ZOMBIE USER 10799 · Post by **ZOMBIE USER 10799** » Sat Oct 05, 2002 6:08 pm

as far as i know there is no way to use keenspace's autoupdate feature for that. you can edit your dropdown through a text file, so just changing that oen shouldn't be a problem. As for the buttons, you're goign to have to write the links yourself in html as the keenspace next/prev/etc tags work only in refrence to the comic pages. Since you're doing a tutorial, and hence it should have a limited number of chapters, I would suggest biting the bullet, creating a table of contents page, and hardcode the pages individually (they will be very alike, so it shouldn't take that long to add another one), and use the dropdown. Since it's a tutorial and not a comic, you SHOULD NOT apply for another account, as that's not what the accounts are intended for :( Sorry I can't help more, but I don't bilieve that writting the pages is going to be as hard as you think

Atrus · Post by **Atrus** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 2:46 pm

What you can do is use the ***include *** tag to write the dropdown. If you're being hit by the "only one ***include *** tag per page" "feature" you can make an external (stored in a seperate file) piece of javascript that consists of a bunch of document.write calls. If you don't already have a script to make the dropdown (navigate from page to page) just ask for one here.

Woapalanne · Post by **Woapalanne** » Sun Oct 06, 2002 3:21 pm

After mucho thought, I decided that a dropdown is, actually, unnecessary - this is a language tutorial, so you don't want to be skipping back and forth

Based on another suggestion someone made, I'm going to just bite the bullet and update everything manually -_- so each week, I have to update the index, the last page, and upload the current page.

Now go ask your teacher if you can get language credit for studying Tdaroga