There are basically four kinds of dropdowns on Keenspace comic sites: The Keenspace Dropdown, Storyline Dropdowns, Standard Genre Dropdowns and Randomly-Ordered Genre Dropdowns. We will discuss how to participate in them in order:

The Keenspace Dropdown --removed--	This dropdown has been removed due to the fact that adds 100K to the page; and with over 1,600 comics to scroll through, it's not feasible to use anyway. If you've already got it, do yourself, your readers, and the admin a favour and ditch it for a smaller dropdown or two. Your pages will load faster (leading to happier readers and admin), and you'll be easier to find by people reading similar comics (happier you).
Storyline Dropdowns	A storyline dropdown is used by one comic to give the readers an easy way to jump from one storyline to another within the comic. Instructions for creating the storyline dropdown are included in the Keenspace Tagtorial, specifically on This Page. In short, you must create a text file in your /workspace/data directory which specifies the URLs, names and/or dates of the storylines, in a specific format. As an example, SUPEROSITY HOMEPAGE,/ ARCHIVES BY DATE,/calendar.html SUPEROSITY SUPERSTORE,/store/ PARKEMON ANIMATED SHORT,/parkemon/parkemon.htm ALFDOT: NEWS FOR MORONS,/alfdot/ ---------------------,/ Superosity Storylines,/ Best Friend,/d/19980301.html Marlene's Story,/d/19980308.html [etc...] Then on your page put the Keentag ***storyline***
Standard Genre Dropdown	The Genre dropdowns are usually maintained by one person, and signup is often on the Dropdowns and Crossovers forum, and/or on a page reached by clicking on the dropdown graphic. The signup process should include instructions for adding the dropdown to your own page, but basically it consists of adding code like the following to your page: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="http://gear.keenspace.com/scripts/unikeen.js"></SCRIPT> of course the actual URL of the script is what goes in the SRC= section.
To make your own Standard Genre Dropdown: Copy the following into a text file with a filename that ends in .js . Edit the text to fit your needs (according to the included notes) and place the file in any useful directory whose URL you know, adding the appropriate SCRIPT tag, in this case <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="http://gear.keenspace.com/scripts/sample.js"></SCRIPT>. //lines starting with two slashes are comments/instructions //Keenspace dropdown developed by Steve Tonks, modified for educational use by Scott Maddix // Web Site: gear.keenspace.com //This code is freely distributable but is prohibited from being resold for profit //DO NOT CHANGE LINES UNLESS INSTRUCTED function goto_URL(object) { window.location.href = object.options[object.selectedIndex].value; } //IMG SRC URL should point to the absolute URL of the dropdown graphic //The HREF tag should show where clicking on the image should take you, //usually to a sign-up spot document.writeln('<FORM" SIZE="500"><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"><TR><TD align="center"><FORM><A HREF="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/Forum158/HTML/000068.html"><IMG SRC="http://gear.keenspace.com/images/scripts/sample.GIF" border=0>'); document.writeln('<TR><TD align="center"><SELECT NAME="selectName" onChange="goto_URL(this.form.selectName)">'); //If nothing is inside the quotes, the text is not a link //If there is a meta-character included in the name, precede the character //with a backslach "\" to keep it from interfering with the script //add new lines as needed, based on these document.write('<OPTION VALUE="">Standard Genre Dropdown<\/OPTION>'); document.write('<OPTION VALUE="">-----<\/OPTION>'); document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://hellspipeline.keenspace.com/">Hell\'s Pipeline<\/OPTION>'); document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://pdi.keenspace.com">Psychic Dyslexia Institute<\/OPTION>'); document.write('<OPTION VALUE="">------<\/OPTION>'); document.write('<OPTION VALUE="http://gear.keenspace.com/dropdowns.html">DROPDOWN DIRECTORY<\/OPTION>'); document.writeln('<\/SELECT><\/TD><\/TR><\/TD><\/TR><\/FORM><\/TABLE>');
This script produces this dropdown:
Random-Order Genre Dropdown	The Random-Order Genre dropdowns are the same as the Standard Genre Dropdowns, except the entries appear in a random order each time the dropdown loads. Pictured is <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="http://gear.keenspace.com/scripts/keenschool.js"></SCRIPT> of course the actual URL of the script is what goes in the SRC= section.
To make your own Random-Order Genre Dropdown: Copy the following into a text file with a filename that ends in .js . Edit the text to fit your needs (according to the included notes) and place the file in any useful directory whose URL you know, adding the appropriate SCRIPT tag, in this case <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="http://gear.keenspace.com/scripts/sample2.js"></SCRIPT> // The following variables setup the dropdown caption, logo, and signup page var caption="Random_order Dropdown" var signup="www.keenspace.com/forums/Forum158/HTML/000088.html" var logo="gear.keenspace.com/images/scripts/sample.GIF" // Add your comics here, use this as a guide: // comicX=new Array("url","name of comic") // Replace X with the next number // Replace url with the address of the comic // Replace the name with the name of the comic comic0 = new Array("http://minorreality.keenspace.com","Minor Reality") comic1 = new Array("http://sundaeconnection.keenspace.com/","Sundae Connection") comic2 = new Array("http://wingit.keenspace.com/","Wing It") // This should be the number of comics on your list. comictotal=3 function goto_URL(object) { window.location.href=object.options[object.selectedIndex].value; } // Create an array equal to the number of comics var randarray=new Array() for (i=0; i<comictotal; i++) { randarray[i]=i } // Randomize the array var i,r,tmp; for (i=0; i<(comictotal-1); i++) { r=Math.round(Math.random(comictotal-i))+i temp = randarray[r] randarray[r] = randarray[i] randarray[i] = temp; } //There's no need for the table when it's already imbedded in another. JF, 3FEB2001. //document.write('<FORM><TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0"><TR ALIGN=TOP><TD ALIGN="CENTER"><FORM>'); document.write('<FORM><CENTER><A HREF="http://',signup,'"><IMG SRC="http://',logo,'" border=0></a><BR>'); //document.write('<TR><TD ALIGN="center"><SELECT NAME="selectName" onChange="goto_URL(this.form.selectName)">'); document.write('<SELECT NAME="selectName" onChange="goto_URL(this.form.selectName)">'); document.write('<OPTION VALUE="" SELECTED>Select a ',caption,' strip!<\/OPTION>'); for (var i=0; i<(comictotal); i++) { showcomic=eval("comic"+randarray[i]) document.write('<OPTION VALUE="',showcomic[0],'">',showcomic[1],'<\/OPTION>'); } document.write('<\/SELECT><\/CENTER><\/FORM>');
This script produces this dropdown:

Scott Maddix (PDI) - Psychic Dyslexia Institute