Help!

Gothic_velma · Post by **Gothic_velma** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:49 pm

It doesn't load whenever I try to Join Keenspace I followed all of the steps and everything...I've been trying to get this account thingy for almost 4 hours now...is a mega byte bigger than a kilobyte?? OO;; uhh...I'm not that great with compys...sum1 pls help!!!

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 2:41 pm

Accounts can take anywhere from a week to a year to get back to you. Mine took three months. Keenspace is much better about it now, but each account needs to be manually reviewed before it gets accepted.

gothic_velma wrote:is a megabyte bigger than a kilobyte?

You are going to need to learn quite a bit before anything I tell you makes the slightest sense. I'm not even going to pretend to explain the Internet to you. Go to the book store and find a copy of PCs for Dummies.

Amazon.com Books

You'll need to know:

The difference between gigabytes, megabytes, kilobytes and bytes. When you're ready to upload your comic to keenspace, each page or strip needs to be less than 150 kilobytes and preferrably less than 75 kilobytes.
How to use Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Macromedia Flash or some other graphics program that can create images viewable in a web browser.
What a file is. How to save them. Where to find them. What the extensions mean. Which programs open which file types.
What a directory is and why they're important, especially on Keenspace. You will need to keep in mind which directories your files will go into. If you don't, your site won't work.
What a website is.
At least some basic understanding of HTML. This is really not that important unless you want to change your site from the default.
FTP. (Yes, you need to know as much as you can about it.)

I'll give you some links that will help you when you're ready to start uploading comics. If you don't know what a kilobyte is, they aren't going to be useful immediately.

http://gear.keenspace.com/: THE keenspace help site.
The Tagtorial and Guides Thread (BUTCH) HELP FOR CADETS
viewtopic.php?t=54103
The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) READ BEFORE POSTING!
viewtopic.php?t=56171
http://www.google.com/ Don't know what something is? Look it up. Google knows all.

Give yourself some credit, though. You're capable enough with a web browser to get a forum account and post your question. You already know something about computers.

Gothic_velma · Post by **Gothic_velma** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 9:25 am

Thanx!!! Thanx a bunch!!! but I think the problem was that my pic thingy was too big...I'll just make a smaller pic and have my friend scan it for me ^________^ THANX A MILLION!!!!!!!!

YarpsDat · Post by **YarpsDat** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 7:17 am

gothic_velma wrote:Thanx!!! Thanx a bunch!!! but I think the problem was that my pic thingy was too big...I'll just make a smaller pic and have my friend scan it for me ^________^ THANX A MILLION!!!!!!!!

OR, you could just resize and shrink the big pic.

GIMP is a free graphics editing program.
and PSP has a free 30 day demo available.