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I've done a bunch of updates to the archive page! At first I was just going to add pagination, but I kept going further and further. So if you're enjoying the cool comfort of a default layout or a layout made with the simple layout editor, you have these changes available to you! Right now!! Go check your archive page!! DO IT!!!
I apologize. I lost my composure.
Alright so you might be asking "new archive? what's this all about then? i don't come to these announcements for extended monologues of your bad improv, you know"
Well here it is, in no particular order:
-The archive now has pages, if you have a bunch of comics. This was the catalyst of the whole update, I wanted the archive to be more reasonable even for webcomics with thousands of pages
-If you have multiple chapters, there's also a chapter listing, which will show just the chapters, with chapter covers, which you can now upload when creating/editing chapters
-If there's no cover, it uses a thumbnail of the first page in the chapter.
-oh that's right, there's now thumbnails! shrunk down versions of your comics!! when you hover over a page link in the archive, it shows a small preview! What a world!
Now as I said, if you have a simple layout or an unmodified default layout, you'll get all this automagically. But if not, you will have to edit your archive page.
The thumbnails for comic pages are in webp format, which allowed me to generate images with bigger dimensions and a smaller filesize. I wanted things to have reasonable load times even if someone just sticks every single thumbnail into an image tag that's displayed on the archive right away, but still have nice and large images. This unfortunately also means that they will not work on older versions of ios, but anything above iOS 14 works, and fortunately apple is very good at providing updates to older hardware, so this still covers almost everyone.
your archive may display either the chapter listing or just a list of comics, depending on how many chapters your comic has right now. If you want to always have the archive show a certain listing, you can change the links.
the link to the chapter listing is:
http://layoutexample.thecomicseries.com/archive/chapters
you can link to it like this: <a href="/archive/chapters">Archive</a>
the link a list of all comics is:
http://layoutexample.thecomicseries.com/archive/comics
you can link to it like this: <a href="/archive/comics">Archive</a>
things will stay exactly the same as they were before! but you don't get access to any of the new features. nothing will break, though.
comicfury is sustained solely by your donations. every time you look into your wallet, and there's unspent cash, it's as if you're literally stabbing a knife through the heart of this website. you have to give us all your money, it's the only ethical choice
I've done a bunch of updates to the archive page! At first I was just going to add pagination, but I kept going further and further. So if you're enjoying the cool comfort of a default layout or a layout made with the simple layout editor, you have these changes available to you! Right now!! Go check your archive page!! DO IT!!!
I apologize. I lost my composure.
Alright so you might be asking "new archive? what's this all about then? i don't come to these announcements for extended monologues of your bad improv, you know"
Well here it is, in no particular order:
-The archive now has pages, if you have a bunch of comics. This was the catalyst of the whole update, I wanted the archive to be more reasonable even for webcomics with thousands of pages
-If you have multiple chapters, there's also a chapter listing, which will show just the chapters, with chapter covers, which you can now upload when creating/editing chapters
-If there's no cover, it uses a thumbnail of the first page in the chapter.
-oh that's right, there's now thumbnails! shrunk down versions of your comics!! when you hover over a page link in the archive, it shows a small preview! What a world!
Now as I said, if you have a simple layout or an unmodified default layout, you'll get all this automagically. But if not, you will have to edit your archive page.
You have to change a bunch of stuff! The archive now can have multiple pages, and it also has two different display modes (at least for comics with chapters enabled), one where it lists all the chapters, and one where it lists comics. To make this easy, I've prepared a hopefully fairly universal archive page, so you can just copy this, replace the entire current archive section of your layout with this, and then just tweak it to your liking.
Remember to make a layout backup first! You will find the option in the box labelled "useful" next to, or below the code editor in your webcomic management's "edit layout" page. Do not skip this step!!
Also, finally, obviously it's impossible to make a page design that you can just plop into any layout and it'll look good no matter what. You probably will still have to tweak the looks of this, but it should provide you with a skeleton that works, so you won't have to wrangle with the structure of your archive page at least.
Here's the code, just replace your entire archive page with this (after doing the backup!!):
Remember to make a layout backup first! You will find the option in the box labelled "useful" next to, or below the code editor in your webcomic management's "edit layout" page. Do not skip this step!!
Also, finally, obviously it's impossible to make a page design that you can just plop into any layout and it'll look good no matter what. You probably will still have to tweak the looks of this, but it should provide you with a skeleton that works, so you won't have to wrangle with the structure of your archive page at least.
Here's the code, just replace your entire archive page with this (after doing the backup!!):
just for the pros! Here's a list of steps that should get you to a new archive page, without having to start over. I don't recommend attempting this if you're not comfortable with editing layout code, and don't really sorta understand what's going on.
Just as with the other method, remember to take a backup of your layout first. You will find the option in the box labelled "useful" on the layout edit screen.
here it is:
Just as with the other method, remember to take a backup of your layout first. You will find the option in the box labelled "useful" on the layout edit screen.
here it is:
The thumbnails for comic pages are in webp format, which allowed me to generate images with bigger dimensions and a smaller filesize. I wanted things to have reasonable load times even if someone just sticks every single thumbnail into an image tag that's displayed on the archive right away, but still have nice and large images. This unfortunately also means that they will not work on older versions of ios, but anything above iOS 14 works, and fortunately apple is very good at providing updates to older hardware, so this still covers almost everyone.
your archive may display either the chapter listing or just a list of comics, depending on how many chapters your comic has right now. If you want to always have the archive show a certain listing, you can change the links.
the link to the chapter listing is:
http://layoutexample.thecomicseries.com/archive/chapters
you can link to it like this: <a href="/archive/chapters">Archive</a>
the link a list of all comics is:
http://layoutexample.thecomicseries.com/archive/comics
you can link to it like this: <a href="/archive/comics">Archive</a>
things will stay exactly the same as they were before! but you don't get access to any of the new features. nothing will break, though.
comicfury is sustained solely by your donations. every time you look into your wallet, and there's unspent cash, it's as if you're literally stabbing a knife through the heart of this website. you have to give us all your money, it's the only ethical choice
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