Blog 'Comments' Unavailable to Others....

My iWeb blog is working fine for me, but I am hearing from people that they aren't able to post 'Comments' in it. Another has told me that she can't open it (from her Outlook Express).
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Gayla

I had to republish all after this happened to me. Also might want to have your guests viewing on a PC use firefox instead of IE. Good luck!

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how do i publish a blog in iweb that others can comment on without using mobile me?
also how much is mobile me after the 60 day trial period? why isnt it FREE after spending thousands of dollars a year to be a mac customer? it should be complimentary for buying mac
saying thx to us for buying mac instead of PC!
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"Click here to go to the comments page where I'm having the problem."
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Hope I'm in the right "corner" of the forum now . Since change from iWeb to MobileMe I also have some problems with comments in my blog: First of all I don't receive any notifications when comments were written into my blog. I don't see them, only if I look at my blog-webpage as a "ordinary visitor" I can see them. Yesterday evening, I was still able to comment on them through the web. Now I have created some new entries in my blog yesterday and saw now that I had a comment (still not appearing in iWeb but on the website). When I was trying to read it I was asked to enter my .mac-ID and password (a small lock appearing next to the entry and the comment-box). Is there anyone experiencing the same problems? Have I done anything wrong?
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