Archival pages
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Chris Read
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Archival pages
Suppose I want to make a page containing links to all my comic strips I've done. Is there a better way than what I've already got (look at the source code): http://chrisread.comicgenesis.com/archives.html Also, suppose I want to update this page. Which of the three updates would be best to do this with?
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Dr Neo Lao
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Re: Archival pages
Define "better".
How did you make the archives.html page? If you hand-coded the drop-downs then no update will affect it. If you used one of the keentags in order to have the server create the drop-down lists then you don't need to worry about updating it, every time the server updates your latest comic, it'll also update the archive pages. So long as you use keentags. In either case, you wouldn't trigger an update specifically to change the archive.
There are a whole bunch of different ways to have an archive, just take a quick look around at a variety of different webcomics to get a feel for what is available.
If you mean "better" as in "easy for you" then all you need to do is create a "blank" html page (with the Ad at the top and the footer at the bottom) and just use the Big Calendar Keentag. That will automatically generate a calendar for you that will auto-update as you add new comics. Set it up once and forget it.
However, that type of calendar is usually pretty hard to navigate and is fundamentally useless for your readers if they are trying to locate a specific strip. What I would suggest is to do a two-page archive. One page uses the ***big_calendar*** keentag and links to all your comics individually, the other page can be a more general story-line type archive that only links to the start of each storyline (with maybe a small description of that story/chapter/month/whatever). The story-line archive you'd need to update yourself, but only once every few weeks / months depending on how you set it up, the other one auto-updates.
There are also other options, feel free to ask again if the above suggestion does not suit you.
How did you make the archives.html page? If you hand-coded the drop-downs then no update will affect it. If you used one of the keentags in order to have the server create the drop-down lists then you don't need to worry about updating it, every time the server updates your latest comic, it'll also update the archive pages. So long as you use keentags. In either case, you wouldn't trigger an update specifically to change the archive.
There are a whole bunch of different ways to have an archive, just take a quick look around at a variety of different webcomics to get a feel for what is available.
If you mean "better" as in "easy for you" then all you need to do is create a "blank" html page (with the Ad at the top and the footer at the bottom) and just use the Big Calendar Keentag. That will automatically generate a calendar for you that will auto-update as you add new comics. Set it up once and forget it.
However, that type of calendar is usually pretty hard to navigate and is fundamentally useless for your readers if they are trying to locate a specific strip. What I would suggest is to do a two-page archive. One page uses the ***big_calendar*** keentag and links to all your comics individually, the other page can be a more general story-line type archive that only links to the start of each storyline (with maybe a small description of that story/chapter/month/whatever). The story-line archive you'd need to update yourself, but only once every few weeks / months depending on how you set it up, the other one auto-updates.
There are also other options, feel free to ask again if the above suggestion does not suit you.
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Chris Read
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Re: Archival pages
OK, it automatically updates. That's the answer to one of my questions, but I have a new one. I tried to put the ***advertisement*** Keentag in my archive page, but instead of displaying an ad, it says "***advertisement***". So, I deleted the keentag, but will put it back up when someone tells me how to make it not do what it says. I have to put the advertisment keentag on every page, right?
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Dr Neo Lao
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Re: Archival pages
Yes, the ***advertisement*** needs to be on every page.
The spelling appears to be correct, so it looks like it might not have passed through the server properly.
Did you put it directly into the public_html side or did you put it in workspace/webpages?
Other than that, it looks fine. Confirm the spelling from the keentag page, but otherwise, as long as it's there you won't get in trouble for it.
Edit: If the keentag insists on not converting into code, you can add the code manually. For your comic it would be:
The spelling appears to be correct, so it looks like it might not have passed through the server properly.
Did you put it directly into the public_html side or did you put it in workspace/webpages?
Other than that, it looks fine. Confirm the spelling from the keentag page, but otherwise, as long as it's there you won't get in trouble for it.
Edit: If the keentag insists on not converting into code, you can add the code manually. For your comic it would be:
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<iframe style="display:inline" src="http://forums.comicgenesis.com/tcontent.php?out=chrisread" id="ks_da" name="ks_da" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" width="740" height="90">
<a href="http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad8223a-map.cgi/ns" target="_top">
<img src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad8223a.cgi/ns" width="468" height="60" border="0" alt="Click Here" />
</a>
</iframe>