when do updates take place?

Vaan Mortier · Post by **Vaan Mortier** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:14 am

having taught myself extremely basic HTML with the help of
http://www.thejaded.co.uk/workshop/index.html -such a wonderful site, and a wonderful person who made it *starry eyes*
and learnt through trial and error how to work an FTP program, i've made some basic changes to my comic, http://travellerstale.comicgenesis.com
i was wondering how long it takes to update my page so it doesn't look godawffully white and my mistake in naming page 2 into the year 2003 dissapears (as i replaced it with a page two called 20070121 )
many thanks to anyone who attempts to help ^_^

Moonshadow · Post by **Moonshadow** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 1:50 pm

Have you gone into siteadmin and requested a full update? It usually only takes a few minutes after you do that for all the pages to be replaced. (Provided you don't do it when there's hundreds of sites in queue.)

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:14 pm

Your site looks updated to me. That is, the background is now black and the text is white. If you can't see it, hard refresh your browser (shift+refresh or ctrl+shift+r) to clear out your cache.

In answer to your question... Comic Genesis runs an update of every comic on the system once a day. By default, this is at midnight, Pacific time, though you can change the offset in siteadmin. This is an automatic process.

If you manually press your "update comic" button in siteadmin, it usually takes less than an hour for changes to occur. The exception to this is when the queue is backed up, which happens every once in a while. If this is the case, it will say so in siteadmin. Your comic gets put to the back of the queue every time you press the button, so don't press it more than once.

Congrats on learning the basics on your own. If you have any more questions on how to do something, feel free to ask. We were all in your position at one point.

Vaan Mortier · Post by **Vaan Mortier** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 3:11 am

i thank you both sincerely for your help. i suppose even though my first hurdle is passed, there are so many more to come.

EDIT: navigation buttons elude me(as in, are hiding) despite doing this:
http://www.thejaded.co.uk/workshop/Buttons.html
is there some changing to the script requireing for my lovely buttons (which took all of two minutes each) to appear?
bloody hurdles...
also, if i wanted to have images that aren't the comic or my nav buttons, how would i type that in? would i use the directory instead of an url and work it similar to on a board? which folder would they go into?

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:22 am

Vaan Mortier wrote:navigation buttons elude me(as in, are hiding) despite doing this:
http://www.thejaded.co.uk/workshop/Buttons.html
is there some changing to the script requireing for my lovely buttons (which took all of two minutes each) to appear?

Do you have more than one comic page up? You'll need at least two, and possibly up to five before the images themselves will appear.

also, if i wanted to have images that aren't the comic or my nav buttons, how would i type that in? would i use the directory instead of an url and work it similar to on a board? which folder would they go into?

Upload your images to the /images folder, then use a bit of code along these lines:

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<img src="/images/YOURIMAGE.gif">

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:22 am

Usually, button images don't start working properly until the 3rd-5th comic. Just ensure that your button images' entire filenames are in lowercase, including the jpg/gif/png extension. Once you have a couple comics up, it'll start working properly.

On a related note.... do you have the ***first_day*** and ***previous_day*** tags on your indextemplate.html? And do you have a dailytemplate.html? Those buttons should be showing up, but then again, you may have to wait a couple comic pages... I don't know why that happens.