Am I stupid?

Goldencrystals · Post by **Goldencrystals** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:54 pm

Please don't answer that question...

Ok, first, I'm new here (duh) I've read all the tutorials, I've activated my accounts, gotten passwords, the whole shabang. I've loaded all my files to the FTP butch thing in their proper folders, and I haven't touched index.html, as instructed in the tutorials.

But now it's time for me to edit my front page and actually make it look like a webpage. I understand everything I need is in workspace, and I've tried to edit my templateindex but nothing is showing up. Not even HTML wise. I've read countless help topic trying to see if anyone has had the same problem (undoubtabley so, but I only read the first 3 pages before I felt helpless)

I'm just wondering how I can get this http://goldencrystals.125mb.com/ to this http://goldencrystals.comicgen.com/

If there's already a topic on this, a link would be fine, but some advice and guidence would be much appreciated!

Lost

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 1:51 pm

What exactly is your question? You can't get the indextemplate.html to update? It looks pretty good to me.

Are you using a webpage editor, by any chance? Your page source has items on it that Autokeen may be having issues with. For example:

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<td><a href="index.html" id="navigation">Home</a></td>

That "id" tag doesn't really seem to be doing anything on your comicgen site. Not like it does on the other. I'd suggest making buttons instead. Ask if you're not sure how to do that.

Also, just writing out "index.html" probably isn't going to do anything. Try typing out "/index.html" That should put autokeen into motion. If that doesn't work, write out the whole url ("http://goldencrystals.comicgen.com/index.html") etc.

Just plop your "next" "previous" etc buttons at the bottom and you should be fine (buttons won't show up on the page until you have multiple comics, though).

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:05 pm

The id tags and things are for CSS which is on the other site, but not the CGen one. What you need to do is go here, save that as a .css file. Upload that file into your workspace/webpages comic and put this in between your <head> </head> tags:

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<link href="/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Goldencrystals · Post by **Goldencrystals** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:37 pm

Whoa, thanks a lot. Gosh, I guess last time a actually checked my page it did show that it worked! ^^; So, now that I realize that I'm doing ok, I tried to edit my indextemplate.html further and it comes up with this message.

"I'm sorry but workspace/indextemplate.html doesn't appear to be a text file. You'll have to edit it another way."

But that's the way, and only way, I've ever edited it. Did I do something wrong?

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:38 pm

Are you editing it straight on the server? If so, don't. Download it to your comp, upload the local version, edit it and then upload the edited version back to your account.