Need help with webdesign

[CartoonGraveyard]

I've never built a webpage before and I am just now becoming familiar with FTP service. I would love it if someone could help me out with a few questions:

1. How can I change the background/sidebars of my website and where does the code go once I write it.

2. How can I add frames to my comic?

If someone could help me out with these *cough* web design noob *cough* questions, that would awesome. thanks

[Black Sparrow]

One word: tutorial.

I, too, was a webdesign noob when I signed up here. Come to think of it, I still am... but that's not the point. This tutorial helped me out immensely in the basics, and then you can find other places with the more complicated stuff, such as Webmonkey, to build on that initial knowledge.

[Oualawouzou]

Also, you can use page building programs, such as 1stPage by Evrsoft. It's 100% free, does most of the job automatically (including pointing out mistakes you made) and lets you tinker with the code content as much as you want. I found it to be a good pick for the newbie who wants to learn but doesn't have time to sit down and learn everything from scratch.

[Gengar003]

And it if all seems like too much, after playing around with the code and reading the tutorials...

There's the Comic Genesis Web Designer Yellow Pages

[CartoonGraveyard]

Those webpages were awesome, thanks so muuch. they really helped me with my knowledge on HTML. I have another question though. How can I use HTML to update my keenspace page. I guess what Im not understanding is the keenspace tags. Can I do away with all of that and just write my own page? or do i have to use the tags in place of code

[Swikan]

The tags are to help generate code for you, so you don't have to manually change things every time you have a new comic page to post.. for example, the latest comic, the calendar, archives, etc.

So instead of putting an image HTML tag where you want your comic to go, you put the keentag ***todays_comics***.. when the site is updated, the code will automatically be changed so that your newest comic will show and, if you used the proper tags on your daily template, your archive is automatically built for you.

So in my own opinion, I would say to use keentags as much as possible. They're the reason you post your comic here instead of any old free site.

For the stuff like the background and a snazzy banner image, stuff that stays the same all the time, that is when you use the HTML.

[Oualawouzou]

Exactly.

Think of ***tags*** as nothing more than placeholders.