NewsBox/NewsHack activated

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:22 am

put ***newsbox*** on your site.

create the newsbox the same way you create a guide banner, 150x300 image, see http://www.keenspace.com for example.

go into siteadmin, edit comic info and select at the bottom the image once it appears.

That is all

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 3:49 am

Let me just say: Oh hell yes.

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:38 am

I've already put it on my page!!!... now if only the update queue wasn't 3 million miles long...

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:44 am

Same. Exept I'll just wait for my page to update itself.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 4:47 am

Wooooo!

War · Post by **War** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:44 am

What's the total size for the newsbox or does the newsbox tag just result in random 150x300 images being displayed leaving us free to design the box around it?

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:00 am

I guess we can.

By the way, I've been clicking over and over, trying to get my newsbox, with no luck...

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:58 pm

Forgot to mention, only if your comic updated in the last 7 days will the newsbox appear for your site. Some incentive to make sure you update.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:32 pm

RPin wrote:I guess we can.

By the way, I've been clicking over and over, trying to get my newsbox, with no luck...

Did you remember to click the radio button on the EDIT COMIC_INFO page?

If you're talking about the "The Admin" card you made for the Guide, I've seen it a bunch of times.

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:34 pm

The admin card is a place holder so it doesn't return 0 results when there aren't enough newsboxes, it's "lastupdate" time is 2009

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Thu Apr 01, 2004 10:25 pm

So is there any reasonable way we can get a HNTRAC box? It doesn't use dating in the normal ways.

RPin · Post by **RPin** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:15 am

If somebody spots my newsbox, please let me know.

And I checked the button on the Comic INFO. Silly me.

Phalanx · Post by **Phalanx** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 5:44 am

Terotrous wrote:So is there any reasonable way we can get a HNTRAC box? It doesn't use dating in the normal ways.

We use a dummy first page, don't we, Tero?

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:39 am

Phalanx wrote:
Terotrous wrote:So is there any reasonable way we can get a HNTRAC box? It doesn't use dating in the normal ways.
We use a dummy first page, don't we, Tero?

Yes, except we'll have to throw the dummy like ten years in the future. The guide entry will look weird... (but then again, I guess it already does)

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:20 am

I was reloading to see everyone's so far, and sometimes an add will show up in newsbox, and the ad at the top of the page disappears.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:54 am

I get that occasionally when my tagboard bamfs. The ad shows up in the tagboard iframe instead of the main page. It's fine as long as there is some content available.

I guess this means both the ad banner and the newsbox are iframed. Is there a way to prevent the ad from switching iframes or does the ad iframe just get broken and it searches for the first empty spot?

Evil Jamie! · Post by **Evil Jamie!** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 6:21 pm

RPin wrote:If somebody spots my newsbox, please let me know.

And I checked the button on the Comic INFO. Silly me.

I haven't seen yours yet. Or mine.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:31 pm

I drew up a newsbox pic, CGed it, saved it nice and layered then flattened the image, scaled it down and saved it with the same filename! Augh!

I would ask people to keep an eye out for it, but that might get taken too literally around here.

Post by **Kisai** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 10:55 pm

Curious... try putting id attributes in the iframe tag to see if that fixes it, IMO it might be doing it because without a id attribute, they are basically the same property in IE/Moz/Opera . I'd be surprised if this triggered some kind of buffer overflow bug in IE... speaking of which, you all are running the most patched versionof IE6 right or your browser of choice right?

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sat Apr 03, 2004 1:06 am

I'm on firefox 0.8, still beta I can check ie 6.0 and see if it does the same thing.