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Aug 9,`07 4:59pm | Quote |

Hey folks, I'm relatively new at the Duck and I'm setting up my page. I'd like for The Webcomics List to be able to use its crawler bots on my page, so it can find my updates, and as far as I'm aware the crawler bot needs a date-oriented tag or code to read before it will recognize it. The DrunkDuck tag for page updates is like
<!--[PAGE]--> it has no date, so the crawler doesn't recognize it. TWCL help forums recommend putting up a tag like <!-- updated: 28-03-07 --> to fix the problem, but that means I have to change the date manually in the tag before it can read the update. Is there some cool shortcut or different tag I can use on my layout so TWCL works for me?

 
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Aug 10,`07 2:41pm | Quote |

It's be good if Volte could make a tag that would automatically print out the date...
Forgive me If I'm wrong though... but when you update a comic page doesn't it automatically print out the date it was updated under your author comments? Can't TWCL use that?

 
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Aug 12,`07 12:34am | Quote |

"ozoneocean" Said:

It's be good if Volte could make a tag that would automatically print out the date...
Forgive me If I'm wrong though... but when you update a comic page doesn't it automatically print out the date it was updated under your author comments? Can't TWCL use that?


I'm assuming that the crawler scans the source code of the page and looks for changes in date, which is why it's not reading it. @.@
I've poked around in the raw HTML and I'm not seeing a tag or anything that generates that date that goes below the author comments.

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Sep 8,`07 11:01pm | Quote |

there used to be tags -
<!--[*MONTH*]-->
<!--[*DAY*]-->
<!--[*YEAR*]-->
but they don't work anymore

GRIND
wtf ????

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