Adding Pages

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 5:13 pm

How do I add my own background?

Down there...

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:38 pm

You mean a background for your webpage, right?

within your <body> tag, you'll add "background="insert something here"' if it's an image, and "bgcolor="a bunch of letters" if it's a color.

So your code might read

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<body background="/images/bgimage.gif">

or

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<body bgcolor="#FF00FF">

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:10 am

Thank you, do I put it in daily, or index? Index right? >_>;

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 4:15 am

The indextemplate is your front page, the dailytemplate represents your archived pages. So both, if you like.

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 3:24 am

Mm, I see. Thanks!

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 4:06 am

One more problem. How do you add more pages? I searched it up. But it doesn't really help because I don't know how to do it at all..

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:17 am

In case you missed it, here's a list of tutorials, in which you'll see this one about adding new pages to your comic account. If you still have trouble, please tell us what exactly causes you problems.

Swikan · Post by **Swikan** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:30 am

If you mean the pages for the "previous" comics, they are created automatically using the dailytemplate.

If you mean supplemental pages like "cast" and "fanart", you need to follow the tutorials Oualawouzou posted.

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 10:55 am

I read that before and I just re-read it. I just don't get it! How do you start making the page?

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:06 am

HTML code (the language in which pages are written) is simply plain text formatted in a particular way. So you have two choices:

1) You can "start" a page simply by opening Notepad and saving the document as a ".html" file. DO NOT use a text editor like Word or WordPad though, it'll mess up your page code. You will need to learn how to code everything by hand. It takes some time but isn't hard. Google up "html tutorials".

2) Alternatively, you can use one of several different webpage building programs out there. Google up "html editor" and see what comes up. These programs do most stuff automatically but can't do *everything* by themselves.

Personnally, I do a mix. I build the basics with a HTML editor (1stPage by Evrsoft), then I tinker with it and polish things up by hand.

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:18 am

Thanks! So, I make the notepad in public html/webpages right?

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:27 am

Start by saving the file on your own computer until you are satisfied with the results. Once you're done, upload it to workspace/webpages. As a rule of thumb, always upload to workspace, not to public_html.

If you are unsure as to what you're doing, feel free to post work-in-progress versions of your files here, surrounded by [ code] [ /code] tags.

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 5:47 pm

Okay, So I uploaded it to Workspace. Do I put it in a folder in workspace/webpages?

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:52 pm

If you put it in workspace/webpages, the page will appear in the root directory of your site (example: uploading cast.html to workspace/webpages will make the page available at the address http://yoursite.comicgenesis.com/cast.html). Uploading the page to a sub-folder within workspace/webpages will create said sub-folder in the root directory of your site (example: uploading cast.html to workspace/webpages/newpages will make the page available at the address http://yoursite.comicgenesis.com/newpages/cast.html). It's up to you weither to use sub-folders or not.

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:06 pm

Well I tried using Evrsoft but now I'm using Ewisoft. How do I put it on to FTP and stuff? >_>;;

Ewisoft doesn't save like Evrsoft. It save in it's own different thing.

Oualawouzou · Post by **Oualawouzou** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:55 pm

FTP = File Transfer Protocol. In other words, "FTP" is a way to transfer things from one comp to another. It is not a program in itself, nor is it something you can put something on.

FTP tutorial. More handy links in that link too.

Ewisoft doesn't save like Evrsoft. It save in it's own different thing.

I don't know Ewisoft, so I'll just ask: uh? In what file format does it save?

Katbotz · Post by **Katbotz** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:02 pm

Oualawouzou wrote:If you put it in workspace/webpages, the page will appear in the root directory of your site (example: uploading cast.html to workspace/webpages will make the page available at the address http://yoursite.comicgenesis.com/cast.html). Uploading the page to a sub-folder within workspace/webpages will create said sub-folder in the root directory of your site (example: uploading cast.html to workspace/webpages/newpages will make the page available at the address http://yoursite.comicgenesis.com/newpages/cast.html). It's up to you weither to use sub-folders or not.

Ahh, I got it now. Totally. Ewisoft saves in .ewp. but I'm taking the html from that and putting in on to evrsoft. Hopefully it's working now. Thank very much for the help. Sorry for being such a pest. I'll get back to you if I have anymore drama. @_@