Navigation buttons don't exist.

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:09 am

I've done everything! I made some Navigation buttons, Saved them as a gif uploaded them on My FTP Done a Manual update, Updated Daily Template. As far as my Webcomic is concerned, Navigation Buttons don't even exist.
What am I doing wrong here?

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:40 am

Probably a lot...
Look through the Taglossary for explanations for how navigation buttons work. If you can't find an answer there please post:

a) A link to your comic site
b) What you named your navigation buttons
c) The name of the file you uploaded them too

SquirtEryna · Post by **SquirtEryna** » Tue May 10, 2005 1:40 am

what file name did you save under?

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Tue May 10, 2005 7:53 pm

I named them stuff like first_day.gif like it said, but nothing happens.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:07 pm

Pillywiggin wrote:please post:
a) A link to your comic site
b) What you named your navigation buttons
c) The name of the file you uploaded them too

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:25 pm

Yay, dudegirl is back!

So did you upload them to the images folder? Did you update your daily template before or after you ran the manual update?

Also, take the date out of your title, it's wrong.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:26 pm

In the Keenspace Gear guide, it says that nav buttons might not show up until you have more than one comic. The same thing happened to me when I started, so I just uploaded another comic and there they were.

Read the Gear, y'all. It'll save you loads of headaches.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue May 10, 2005 8:33 pm

Subhuman wrote:In the Keenspace Gear guide, it says that nav buttons might not show up until you have more than one comic. The same thing happened to me when I started, so I just uploaded another comic and there they were.

Read the Gear, y'all. It'll save you loads of headaches.

This is a good point. But I checked and she has a monthload of stuff. http://felin.keenspace.com

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:36 am

Oh.

Well then, make sure the buttons are in the public_html/images folder. Other than that, I'm stumped.

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:58 pm

public_html? I've read the gear. It said NOTHING about this 'public_html'

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:59 pm

Risky wrote:Yay, dudegirl is back!

So did you upload them to the images folder? Did you update your daily template before or after you ran the manual update?

Also, take the date out of your title, it's wrong.

...date?

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:00 pm

Yes they are all in public_html. But they still don't exist on my actual comic.

Rianeva · Post by **Rianeva** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:14 pm

Uh... you did know you can edit your posts on the forum, right?

And are the extensions on your image files capitalized (i.e. first_day.GIF instead of first_day.gif )? I think Keenspace is kinda finicky about that, not sure though.

By title, Risky means the title of your main page, which shows at the very top of the browser. it's set with the <title > </title > tags in the head of the page, I believe. Looks to me like you have April 2, 2005 hardcoded into your indextemplate. There's a tag for the date, should be something like ***todays_date*** but check the gear to be sure.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:46 pm

Rianeva wrote:Uh... you did know you can edit your posts on the forum, right?

And are the extensions on your image files capitalized (i.e. first_day.GIF instead of first_day.gif )? I think Keenspace is kinda finicky about that, not sure though.

Yep. the other thing that causes it is corrupted image files (or files sometimes in the wrong format although they have the right extension).

Also make sure the filenames aren't capitalised, as in first_day.gif is not the same as First_day.gif

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:44 pm

Nope. No capitols whatsoever.

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:47 pm

Also, I have another question. About copywriting. I have this Character that is based on my cat, which I named after Meowth. Is it ok, even if I mention that he was named after the Pokemon? Or do I have to change the name of the Character?

Should have called him Snorelax....

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Thu May 12, 2005 7:59 pm

Is the character a person's cat, or some kind of demon thing?

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:00 pm

Risky wrote:Is the character a person's cat, or some kind of demon thing?

He's a cat.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:32 pm

Hmmm. out of curiosity, what's the path to your navigation button? is it

http://yournamehere.keenspace.com/images/first_day.gif or http://yournamehere.keenspace.com/first_day.gif?

Dudegirl · Post by **Dudegirl** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:41 pm

Phalanx wrote:Hmmm. out of curiosity, what's the path to your navigation button? is it

http://yournamehere.keenspace.com/images/first_day.gif or http://yournamehere.keenspace.com/first_day.gif?

I did put it in my Images folder like it said in the gear.