Some pages are randomly being skipped by Next button

Mikethemulletthing · Post by **Mikethemulletthing** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:15 am

Hi. My comic of http://www.mikethemulletthing.comicgenesis.com has been acting screwy for a little bit.

You see, it's worked fine for months. I followed all the tutorials, used the templates that were available, and I've been uploading comics for a long while now with no problem. Until the last few days.

When you go to the site, I have all four buttons- first day, previous day, next day, and latest day- which have also worked just fine. But all of a sudden, whenever I go to a comic a few months back in the archives- I'm not sure when this stops happening- the Next button will act as the Latest button, and the Latest button will still work as the Latest button. The Next button will just jump to my latest comic from those random points. It's as if, once I go to a few random certain comics, it replaces my Next button's function with that of the Latest Comic button next to it.

I have no idea whether or not this is caused by a problem with the site, a problem with my specific site, a problem with the way I make or name or upload comics, a mistake I may have made, or even something wrong with my template that randomly kicks in. But I do know that this has only started happening the last few days, when I've started updating a new comic each day, and it's never happened before.

Any help, my fair ComicGenesis folk?

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:39 am

First of all, check your dailytemplate.html to make sure you still use the navigation tags and haven't mistakenly replaced one of them with HTML code. Then, check your comics to make sure they are all named in the correct format.

If you find no problems, re-upload a copy of dailytemplate.html (even if you haven't modified it, simply to change the date of the last upload) and run a regular update. Give the site a few minutes to be rebuilt, then check your archives. If they are still buggy, this time trigger a full update. It's one of the rare instances where a full update may be necessary, don't abuse it!

If it still doesn't work... well, come back here and we'll try other things.

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 1:12 pm

This sounds pretty much exactly like the problem I've been occasionally having with my archive; I hope you figure out what's going on with it, I'd like to know too. :)

Mikethemulletthing · Post by **Mikethemulletthing** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:24 pm

Thank you very much! Replacing dailytemplate.html and doing a Regular Update fixed it entirely.

You rock like Colbert!
-mikethemulletthing

Faileas · Post by **Faileas** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 3:17 pm

Mine was doing the same thing and doing a full update didn't help... until I uploaded the daily template anew and then ran the update. Worked like a charm. Thanks for the advice!