***next_day*** issues

[Sincerely]

I'm trying to set up my comic site with the front comics page NOT on the indextemplate. Is there anyway I can do this with keentags, using the automation system.

Currently, the only problem seems to be that the ***next_day*** and ***last_day*** tags take the comic back to the indextemplate.html when I want them to lead to comic.html instead. I can replace ***last_day*** with a direct link, but I don't know how to change the ***next_day*** link without having to go in manually, every update.

The site is http://dissent.comicgenesis.com/. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

[Dayuse]

I'm also attempting this. If there's a Tag that makes this capable, that would be great.

http://heritagepolice.comicgenesis.com

[Godai]

Not a tag, but some setting in the advanced comic settings in admin, that let's you set another default page for you comic instead of index.

Browse there (neds some looking for it, but MOST PROBABLY it is in the new admin).

Whether it works, is another thing - never tried, just know I've seen such an option.

[Kirb]

If not index.html, what page should be shown?

Under comic data in the site admin. I am assuming this is what you would need.


barglebarglebargle


*rolls around on Sin's head*

[Dr Neo Lao]

Edit: Read this bit, and read the edit further down before attempting this.

It's a little tricky. If you stuff this up and ruin your comic, I never told you this... *waves hand in a mystical manner*

1. Log in to the control panel and go to your comic.
2. Click on "Comic Data" and select the option "Show Advanced Options [Expert use only]", click 'Submit' at the bottom of the page.
3. The page will look like there's no change. Wait a moment and then click "Comic Data" again.
4. If it still looks the same, wait a moment and click it again. It should now look the same, except that the list of options will be heaps longer and the new options will have "[ADVANCED] Which blah blah blah" on the far right.
5. Find the option that says "If not index.html, what page should be shown?" on the left, "index.html" in the middle and "[ADVANCED] You can use a different file as the first page people see." on the far right.
   
   ** Important! ** From here on, it's all speculation on my part. Be careful that you are really sure before making changes or clicking "Submit".
6. Where it currently says "index.html" you punch in the new 'front page'.
7. Click on 'Submit'.

As near as I can tell, that's pretty much it.

Strongly suggested: Set up your new "front page" first. Make a new html file and call it whatever (except 'index.html'. You could call it "main.html" or "comicname.html").

Add this page to your workspace/webpages folder, run a regular update and then make damned sure that everything works hunky-dory before making the change on the control panel.

Once you're sure the page works, your links go to the index.html and everything else, go to the control panel and change index.html to whateveryouchose.html.

That ought to work. But I make no guarantees...

Edit for clarification: I just re-read the above post and noticed that it wasn't very clear.

1. Create a new page for your comic. For this example, I'm going to use "whee.html" (for no reason other than whee.html is not likely to be a name that autokeen would use. On the other hand, main.html might be; so avoid that name).
2. Set the new page up in the manner that you want your new main page to act. So put your blog / news / votebuttons / whatever on that page. Make sure you add links to your archive / the normal index.html / your forum / etc and once the page is loaded, run an update and make sure all the links etc work.
3. You site should now be operating exactly like you want it to operate, except that people still arrive at index.html instead of whee.html when they put your comc's basic url into a browser.
4. Now you go and do the bit I said above, and change the "landing page" from index.html to whee.html (I know that "landing page" isn't the proper term, but you know what I mean. If you don't, make sure that you ask first!).
5. Once you've made the change, your site should be operating in the manner that you desire.

[Nukapei]

Thank you so much for this! ^_^ I attempted it, and it worked, even without me changing the advanced settings. I just set up a new page under webpages called newcomic.html, copied the dailytemplate.html to the letter, put it up on the web ... and I'm good to go! Thanks! ^_^

[Dr Neo Lao]

I had a look and it certainly seems to have worked.

However, there is one small detail that you may or may not be interested in fixing. At the moment, all your comic navigation links work well, except the 'Next' on the second-most recent page. That one will always point to index.html instead of comic.html - that's because of the automation code.

If you don't mind that, then you're all set.

[Sincerely]

Yeah, I was afraid of that. Guess I'll just have to work around it.

Anyway, thanks for your help.

*noogies Kirb*