Unable to Update Site

Amandaann · Post by **Amandaann** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:27 am

My site is mandaann.keenspace.com

I have tried to go into the siteadmin space and update the comic name and the author name and that will not update.

I have also tried to edit the html code to get a new background and text color. The changes appear to be saved in my indextemplate.html file and i have ftp'd that onto keenspace, but none of these changes are showing. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Amandaann · Post by **Amandaann** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 11:28 am

And I am posting it into the workspace, not the public folder.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:30 pm

Have you gone to "Manual Update of xxxxxx Comic" and run a "FULL page update?" That should make any changes to indextemplate.html show up on your actual site.

As for the author/comic name not changing... My author name wouldn't change at first; but after a few days the change took. I don't know why; just be patient.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 1:44 pm

First off, you don't need to run a full update when you change your indextemplate. The first two work fine (especially the second). As for why your webpage is not working properly, you're completely missing the <body> tag. Body tags are good things.

The guide will take a while to cycle through.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:07 pm

Pillywiggin wrote:First off, you don't need to run a full update when you change your indextemplate.

This is true. I usually update indextemplate and dailytemplate (and pages in the /webpages folder) at the same time though, so full update is instinctual for me.

Pillywiggin wrote:As for why your webpage is not working properly, you're completely missing the <body> tag.

Good things they may be, but they are *not* necessary for a webpage to run correctly in the least (at least not nowadays). You'll find that HTML is quite forgiving

as for "none of the changes showing" I assumed you meant on the indextemplate.html page; is that right?

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:22 pm

Gengar003 wrote:
Pillywiggin wrote:First off, you don't need to run a full update when you change your indextemplate.
This is true. I usually update indextemplate and dailytemplate (and pages in the /webpages folder) at the same time though, so full update is instinctual for me.

That still only requires a regular update. Full ones are rarely needed.

Gengar003 wrote:
Pillywiggin wrote:As for why your webpage is not working properly, you're completely missing the <body> tag.
Good things they may be, but they are *not* necessary for a webpage to run correctly in the least (at least not nowadays). You'll find that HTML is quite forgiving

It is neccessary when you're trying to set a new background colour, which is what she was trying to do.

Amandaann · Post by **Amandaann** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:25 pm

I'm going to come out here as a total NOOB.

I have never done anything HTML before in my life.

That being said, where in that whole mess of code do I put this <body> you speak of?

I ran the update already and that alone didn't help so it must be this <body> issue.

Amandaann · Post by **Amandaann** » Sun Jun 19, 2005 4:31 pm

I take that back. It did work!

Thank you all for the help.