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Neskah

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« on: 29 Jun 2005, 01:01 »

Hi, I'm in the process of designing a site to host my comics, but having trouble finding a good code.

I could manually code each page to link forward and back the next page but it's time consuming and not overly practicle.

can anyone tell me where to find a good set up for my web comic?

(Sorry if I'm not clear, it's late here and my brains functioning slowly)
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« Reply #1 on: 29 Jun 2005, 01:31 »

hgmmm perhaps you should rather use javascript to change the strips than coding a complete page for each strip. like, name the strips with numbers and just increase the number when "next" is cklicked and load the strip named with that numeber...
but i am not that familiar with webdesign and stuff, so i am probably telling complete nonsense ;)
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« Reply #2 on: 29 Jun 2005, 02:08 »

sounds exactly what I'm after.... know where to find one?
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« Reply #3 on: 29 Jun 2005, 04:39 »

You might be looking for this thread:
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/viewtopic.php?t=5658

Check it out.
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« Reply #4 on: 29 Jun 2005, 12:57 »

Ive been there. Thanks tho.

It doesn't tell you much of anything other then that QC is is PHP.

Short of stealing the codes from another websites (Which is the epitomy of rudeness) does  anyonehave an Idea where i can get a simple code for it?
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« Reply #5 on: 29 Jun 2005, 14:08 »

i usually google for it (no joke). you should look for tutorials on javascript and html. they usually are easy to understand and occassionally have exactly the code you need.
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« Reply #6 on: 29 Jun 2005, 14:42 »

I've been looking. Oh well I'll keep looking
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« Reply #7 on: 30 Jun 2005, 05:57 »

Java is probably too clunky. Most of us use PHP for our sites, which also means learning HTML (with style sheets, although a lot of old comics still use frames). I know that 8-bit Theatre uses http://cusp.sourceforge.net/ which is a open source PHP program for web comics. The version I looked at a few months ago used frames. Still, with no background in PHP, I actually found it easier to build my own code than trying to figure out how CUSP had set up their program.

Getting the html code for any web page is easy (View > Source), and if you save the page to your harddrive, you'll get the code, most of the images, and the style sheet for the page. Since the php code is run on the server and sends out html code, I don't know of any easy way of getting it short of asking the author.

And speaking of which, my email address is in my profile if you want the PHP code for my main page, archive page, and archive calendar. Just send me a note, and I'll send them to you. Be warned that the code is not cleaned up and documented for other users right now. For example, the variables for the archive page and archive calendar don't match even when the variables do the same thing. They work alright, it's just that I wrote them seperately and haven't gotten around to tightening the code.

Finally, since PHP is a server side language, you'll either have to have to store them on a server or turn your computer into a server to get them to run instead of just looking at them. Luckily, there are programs you can download for free to do that. Apache turns your computer into a server even if its by itself http://httpd.apache.org/  You'll need the PHP compiler to actually run PHP http://www.php.net  And a database to store bits of information also comes in handy http://www.mysql.com  Of course, hitting the bookstore turns up things like "SAMS Teach Yourself PHP, MySQL, and Apache" which comes with a CD with versions of those programs on them.

Gives you a starting point anyway. It's not an impossible climb to learn enough to do what you want, but even with someone elses code, its not quite a drag and drop process either.
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« Reply #8 on: 30 Jun 2005, 06:29 »

Didn't want to start a new thread, so figured i'd leech off this one.

Does anyone know a good site to learn CSS postioning? I'm talking about DIV's etc. It's the one part of CSS i can't get my head around, and all the sites i've found aren't very good at explaining it, either by assuming too much or being too brief. Anyone know of a good one that explains it rationally?
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« Reply #9 on: 30 Jun 2005, 09:28 »

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com is a great one. I've referred back to that site constantly for help on DIV's and tricky CSS in general whilst i've been building my site. And this is coming from a girl who knew NOTHING about HTML and web design.
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« Reply #10 on: 30 Jun 2005, 09:36 »

I love you.


No seriously, i do. I lost the link to that site and could not remember for the life of me what it was called.

You are a star.
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« Reply #11 on: 30 Jun 2005, 09:41 »

No problems! :) Now...bookmark it! :p
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