Help meee!

[Golden Dragon Girl]

Well, as we come into... what, the second year of the comic, and readership is still low and the website hosting the comic still looks craptacular, desperation is setting in and I have decided-- reluctantly-- to ask the general population of the forum if they can help.

Here's the problem.

I can't code. Coding makes my head hurt, and I can't seem to look at it properly without sudden bouts of dyslexia. The Comic Genesis hosting site just basically gives you an ftp to login to and a bunch of folders to try to figure out, unlike the proboards forum host, which gives you a form to punch in numbers and cut and paste code into. (I needed Asj's help just with the FORM.)

So... I need suggestions on what I might be able to do. Keep in mind I have no money, so I can't just pay someone. (Otherwise this'd be easy.)

[Lady Phoenix]

I have relied on AFG's help for a lot of coding things. I am slowly getting the hang of it but yeah, it can have it's days where I just can't take it lol

My suggestion would be AFG on this one... I could take a look at it but couldn't guarantee anything- and at least we're free lol

[Asj]

You mean html?
I'll help when I have time. Just tell me what you want. (I know bbcode too, but I doubt you would need that for the comic.)
(Also, I guess html kind'a comes naturally to me, since I've always loved codes. It's odd to think someone can't understand that stuff. - Unless the comic site really is complicated.)

If you mean, like, background colors and stuff to make the pages look better, then it's pretty easy. If you want to know what I can do, look at my websites. The geocities one with my homepage www.asj127.com, the freespaces one with my fanfic freespaces.com/asj127/FOSp.html (which, by the way, has illustrations between chapters), the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga one in my sig, and the fortunecity one with some Yu-Gi-Oh! episode screenshots asj127.fortunecity.com

So, if you look at my stuff, you can see what I know. I can find other things, too, which I don't use. Some stuff I've forgotten because I've never used it, too...
Whatever you need to code, I'm sure I can figure it out, if you want to ask me. You could even give me your password for the site if you need to. I won't do anything with it you wouldn't want me to.

[Golden Dragon Girl]

The main problem for me is, I have these folders in the workspace folder, and I don't know what they all do. >.<

Comics, Images and Webpages. Theoretically, if I want to modify the main page, I should put it in webpages, right? But I don't know how to tell it "this is for the main page, don't make a new one like with the archive..."

And I've tried to use the Images folder for more than just the first, next, previous and latest, but it doesn't work. (growl)

Mostly, I just want to make the links on the main page (To archive and here) permanent and up on the side, and change the background color and maybe have a banner instead of the words typed at the top of the page, or something. XD Then I wouldn't whine so much.

(If this all seems simple to you-- well, think of it as I'm paralized into inaction with the fear I'll do something horrible to my archives or the main page or something.)

[Asj]

Hmm...
Actually, it does sound a little confusing. I'd have to see what your describing. It's also possible that the website has a few flaws.
The permanent likes, background, and banner sounds easy enough, depending on the system.
If you want, you could pm me your password for the site and I could look around at what you have and see if I can figure it out (without doing anything I'm unsure of without your permission). Or maybe you could ask someone else who has a comic on the site and see what they know about it.

[Asj]

admin said:

And I've tried to use the Images folder for more than just the first, next, previous and latest, but it doesn't work. (growl)

Hmm... I think I found the page you mean. You can upload images to the images folder... Maybe you mean something else...