need site design help

[JacobM5727]

hi, i run an online comic, and i was wondering if someone could tell me how to make it so there is just one page, that shows all the strips on it (when you are on a strip, you can change it to the previous one, etc, and it just changes the pic, not the page)
http://www.megatokyo.com
uses a system like that (well, sort of.. its way beyond me )
most online comics use something like that though, and i think it would help a lot
currently, i have a page for each comic, but as we grow that will become an issue, i am trying to simplify updates, etc, now
http://www.pandacomics.com is our site, if you wanted to see and had other ideas too
i dont know much html, or java, or anything, i just run the site cause its my little brothers

thanks

also, our host is angelfire, so i am not really sure what formats they let people use

[Blazer06]

didnt check the pages.. but two things

1) frames would allow you to do that
2) angelfire.. ick.. i would suggest going with www.freewebs.com (free... and no ads)


Blaze

[JacobM5727]

yeah, but no one here likes frames, and i think they can be a bit annoying too

plus, i dont want to lose my domain name, we got it with the membership, and it took forever for my brother to pick it

[Blazer06]

i hate frames too

i cant think of anything off the top of my head... ahh you got a membership so theres no ads...


Blaze

[Iturea]

It's simple really. Ever put your mouse over an image and it changed? Same concept here except you will put your mouse over ( or click ) an arrow (ie: next) image and the big image changes.

Now throw in a title argument in the function. The title will represent the next image. title = "image1" when the page loads, title = "image2", and so on.

You will need to define each image.
ie: image1 = "photos/image1.jpg"

Use if / else statements in the code to set the new image.

Example: if user hits next button then if title = "image2" then we know we must load image 2. Then if image 2 loads make the back button set to image1 and the next button set to image3.

The image will essential roll over just like a rollover image is supposed to.

This is 1 solution. Another is simply find out if your host allows for a cgi or active server page or a php solution. Then the code will be much easier due to the fact you can just pass a image value through a querystring.

[Carl-cox-]

well that megatokyo site uses php to change the image on the same page

http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=4

the strip_id will probally corrispond to either the image location or a blob in the database.

free host probally wouldnt support php. and a database you could either use a text file or if you have lots of images mysql.

also using a database will make updating the site easier as you would only need to add it to the database if it was made correclty