Buttons & Background Help

[Bageluigi]

I have two questions, and I would be very grateful if someone could answer them.

1) I managed to change the background of my comic (With the Simple Red template) but there was still a weird checkmark thing and a gradient box behind the banner and description? How can I get rid of those or replace them with a regular solid color box?

Look at my comic below to see what I'm talking about.
http://expendable.smackjeeves.com/comic ... 14/teaser/

2) Is there a way to change the menu buttons on the side (home, archive etc.) from the text to an image? I changed the navigation buttons under the page but I can't figure out the menu. Other comics I've seen that had custom menu buttons had them above the page so should I change my template for that?

Please help and thanks in advance.

[mitchellbravo]

For your second question, what you want to do is go into "Manage Webcomic" and then go to "Page Design/Appearance." From there, you can click "Menu" and edit the menu as it appears on all the pages of your site. If you already know how to code a linked image, then just proceed as usual.

If you don't know, here's a quick summary of what you need to do:

Spoiler! :

What you'll want to do is replace each link with the following code:

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<a href="HTML LINK"><img src="HTML IMAGE"></a>

Replace "HTML LINK" with the URL you want, and replace HTML IMAGE with the URL of the image you want as your link. If you haven't done so already, upload the image to a photo sharing site such as Photobucket and go from there. If you need me to clarify at all feel free to ask.

Also, if you don't want the little blue (or whatever color) border to appear around the linked image, tuck the code

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border ='0'

between "HTML IMAGE" and the >.

[Bageluigi]

Thank you! I made an add as favorite button, a news archive button, and a first button by copying the {NAV_FIRST} code from "Comic Page". They all work but my latest button goes to the first instead of the latest, I used {NAV_LAST} in place of the link. Do you have any idea why that doesn't work?

EDIT: Apparently the Latest comic button does nothing. I was just testing it from the first page and thought it was going there.

[mitchellbravo]

Looks nice! I'm not sure why "latest" isn't working, hopefully someone else can come around and help you out!

[trenton_dawn]

The {NAV_LAST} tag doesn't work in the menu, only in the comic page. I'm actually very surprised that NAV_FIRST works. Instead, try using the global variable {latest_comic.URL}.

[Bageluigi]

Thanks for the help! {first_comic.URL} works like {NAV_FIRST} but {latest_comic.URL} and {last_comic.URL} don't work, and capitalization doesn't make a difference.

[trenton_dawn]

Whoops, sorry, I was looking at the wrong part of my template. Try taking advantage of the fact that "{SITE_URL_FULL}comics/" always will display the latest comic. It's not the exact URL but it'll get people where they need to go.

If you really want to keep trying the {latest_comic.URL} route, try doing it like this:

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<!-- BEGIN latest_comic --> {latest_comic.URL} <!-- END latest_comic -->

But I don't think that's necessary.

[Bageluigi]

It works perfectly! Thanks again for helping me, I don't have a lot of coding experience.