Oh those notorious tables...BASIC CODING HELP

[MightyFoxling]

I was wondering how I would set up my site to display my comments to the side of my comic, as in tables, much like the format of http://www.questionablecontent.net

I don't know if that's possible, simply because "commentary" is treated like a second comic upload. Would I just create its own table in the text file maybe?

Anyways, help would be much appreciated.

[TTE]

Thanks to STrRedWolf, you now can, and here's how: use the ***todays_notes*** tag.

Next, within your workspace folder, create a folder called data, and within there, a folder named notes, so that you'll have workspace/data/notes.

Next, upload what you want to say into that folder, and name them as the same date as the comic, in the YYYYMMDD.txt format.

And now the actual code. It basically would go like this (you can add other attributes later, try visiting Echo Echo, then go to Tutorials>HTML>Tables):

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<TABLE />
<TR />
<TD />
***todays_comics***
</TD>
<TD />
***todays_notes***
</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>

Also, look at this CG Wiki Article for a little more info.

Hope that helps.

[MightyFoxling]

GASP! Awesome! Thank you so much!

*runs off to do that, glee!*

[TTE]

Not at all! Glad I was able to help.

Good luck with your site!

[MightyFoxling]

Hmm.

It worked the first time beautifully, but after that it stopped updating the notes when I put them in the workspace/data/notes folder. It just keeps the first note.

The notes inside are:
20060504b.txt <---worked
20060510b.txt <---didn't work
20060515.txt <---didn't work

I tried changing their filenames to have the b on the end since that was how the first one was, and the first one worked. But it didn't do anything.

http://tarandfeathers.comicgenesis.com

Any thoughts?

[MightyFoxling]

Woops, nevermind, it's working!