Kisai, is this OK?

CodeGuy · Post by **CodeGuy** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 1:48 am

Here's what I have in mind:

1) Get new keenspace account. The sample comic will be the first comic in the new run of my comic series.

2) Once I have the new account, transfer the archives of the last run of the series to the new account.

3) Put new comic in the old account.

4) On the old account (which now has the current run of the comic) put a link to the new account, labled as the original run.

The purpose of this is to keep my old archives somewhere, but still have the new run effectively be a reboot. That way the people who click "First Comic" get taken to the beginning of the current run, but there is still a nice archive of the old stuff.

It also means that I get to keep the original URL instead of having to tell people that I have a different one now.

Is that a reasonable way to do it?

AndrewTaylor · Post by **AndrewTaylor** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 11:52 am

It might be easier not to use the ***first_day*** tag, and just include a link to the new 'start' position instead. Then you could keep the lot on one account. But I don't know what you'd do about the archive, so maybe your way is better.

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:58 am

You can also use the ***storyline*** tag for creating a dropdown. This will enable you to choose different "chapter" in each story, similar to what I and Howard Taylor of Schlock Mercenary is doing.

CodeGuy · Post by **CodeGuy** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:20 am

I already had a storyline dropdown on my old site. It worked very well for what it did.

The problem is, I pretty much want the new run to be a fresh start. Mainly because my early art stinks. Not that my current stuff is "good", but it's not offensively ugly like my first run.

So, I want **first_comic** to point to the beginning of the current run. Then I can have a link to the old comics hidden away somewhere that people will find it after they've read the archives and decided they like the comic. That's why I came up with this cunning plan.

AndrewTaylor · Post by **AndrewTaylor** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:58 pm

What you could do, of course, would be to FTP the public_html folder from your original site into a folder on your PC. Then get some software that can do multi-file find-and-replaces (say, BK ReplaceEm, or UltraEdit) to run through and change "/comics/" with "/images/" in all the. Then upload the comics to the IMAGES directory and the rest to, say, public_html/d/ and providing you don't want to update the old comic pages ever ever again, it should run with no problems from the same account.

Also it would take decades if you're using the web-ftp client.

CodeGuy · Post by **CodeGuy** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:39 pm

Yeah, that was basically the backup plan if I was told not to do my original plan.