Backdating comics

[Tidanlikida]

Ok. I'm already done a forum search for this, and have found nothing. What I want to know is, how do you backdate a comic? I have loads of comics I've made, yet I have no idea how to backdate any of them. Please help.

[Caduceus]

Well, when you upload them use older dates. It'll put them in the right order.

And this should really go in the help section.

[Tidanlikida]

Yeah...I wasn't sure which forum to put it in. Sorry.

Next question is, how do you make the dates older? I have my comics save each like 20041025.png. Is there a certain format the comics need to be saved as so it knows it's an old comic?

[Kris X]

PNG works fine. I use it too, you can save it as you would any up to date comic.

Faub: Move to Help, might get more "help" there.

You: Enjoy your stay, don't be a stranger.

[KathleenJ]

If the date is in the past, it'll know to put it in the past. If it's the current day, or the most recent date in your archive, it'll be on the front page. If it's a date in the future, it'll lie in wait until that day comes. It's crafty like that.

[Stinkywigfiddle]

It's like time travel

[Leko]

If the date is in the past, it'll know to put it in the past. If it's the current day, or the most recent date in your archive, it'll be on the front page. If it's a date in the future, it'll lie in wait until that day comes. It's crafty like that.

And then it will leap out of the bushes in ambush and TEAR YOUR HEART TO PIECES!

...Or not. You never know.

[Faub]

moving to help.

[Mr Ekshin]

I know a LOT about this.

You can even go back and insert comics into the past archives just by naming them properly.

But beware: Autokeen doesn't always attach them properly with the default ***previous_comic*** ***next_comic*** tags.

Which is ok, if you want secret comics that people can only find by blindly typing in dates.

But given enough time (like a week it seems), autokeen will finally straighten out the tags and get everything acessable.

Also, there is a weird bug where sometimes autokeen will cause the ***next_comic*** tag to jump a comic, going straight to the ***todays_comic***. This usually happens when you do manual updating (the only way I update it seems, cause I'm always late.)

so...
Two comics ago: ***next_comic*** --> Today
One comic ago: ***next_comic*** --> Today

But:
Today's comic: ***previous_comic*** --> One comic ago
One comic ago: ***previous_comic*** --> Two comics ago.
Which is how it should be.

So people can properly browse backwards, but not forwards.

Not much to worry about it you have your comics done ahead of time and let autokeen go for it. But if you do manual tweeking, be prepared to have to fix stuff in the final html.

Also, I do a thing where I have a rant html that's at the end of every comic. Seems all the help stuff really didn't solve my particular problem of how I wanted it to format:

My navagation buttons are part of my rant text, not the main page.
I have to trick autokeen by making a reference to the buttons and text from the main page, and then AGAIN reference the buttons and main page from the rant text. It's a bit of a head-scratcher, but it works and it lets me format my rant text in the way I want.

Yes, I tried doing it the "right" way first. It didn't work. My way works, but probably makes autokeen twist it's panties in a bunch every time it has to parse my garbled cross-referencial crap.

Anywho, if anyone want's to know how to get their rant text to format in a specific way, ask Grace of BOMC, cause she seems to have it mastered. But I'll share what I know about my own methods if anyone e-mails.

Peas.