Comments box on iWeb blog

I've ticked 'Add comments' on my mac.me blog but no comment box has appeared on the blog. Please advise.

Where are you publishing your site to - MobileMe or an external host such as GoDaddy?

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Can I change the format of my "comments" box on my blog page

Hi there, I'm new to iWeb and have designed my first website. Great fun and I'm very excited about it but on my "blog" page I would like to get more information from the comment senders. Is there a way I can change the comment box format? For example I would like to change "Comment as" to "Your name", "URL" to "Your occupation" and add two more fill-in fields. Is that possible?
b.t.w. Is that html, java or php? sorry if I sound a bit ignorant, as mentioned I am new to this.
Thanks for any advice
Tony

As you know MobileMe will be discontinued by Apple on June 30, 2012. When MMe goes away so will your blog comments.
So if you want to continue your blogging you will have to create a blog on one of the existing blogging sites and copy and past your entries and comments into it.
However, Rage Software has created an application, iWeb to WordPress, which will convert your blog to a WordPress blog, complete with your entires and user comments.
You can then use either WordPress.org or WordPress.com to create your blog and host it on your new server.
This may be of some interest to you: Life After MobileMe.
Furthermore it is now confirmed that iWeb, and iDVD, has been discontinued by Apple. This is evidenced by the fact that new Macs are shipping with iLife 11 installed but without iWeb and iDVD.
On June 30, 2012 MobileMe will be shutdown. However, iWeb will still continue to work but without the following:
Features No Longer Available Once MobileMe is Discontinued:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Hit counter
◼ MobileMe Gallery
All of these features can be replaced with 3rd party options.
I found that if I published my site to a folder on my hard drive and then uploaded with a 3rd party FTP client subscriptions to slideshows and the RSS feed were broken. If I published directly from iWeb to the FPT server those two features continued to work correctly.
There's another problem and that's with iWeb's popup slideshows. Once the MMe servers are no longer online the popup slideshow buttons will not display their images.
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However, Roddy McKay and I have figured out a way to modify existing sites with those slideshows and iWeb itself so that those images will display as expected once MobileMe servers are gone. How to is described in this tutorial: #26 - How to Modify iWeb So Popup Slideshows Will Work After MobileMe is Discontinued.
It now appears that the iLife suite of applications offered on disc is now a discontinued product and the remaining supported iApps will only be available thru the App Store from now on. However, the iLife 11 boxed version that is still available at the online Apple Store (Store button at the top of the page) and those still on the shelves of retailers will include iWeb and iDVD. Those two apps were listed in small, gray text on the iLife 11 box that I bought.
Personally, if I didn't already have a copy I would purchase one to have it for reinstallation purposes if ever needed.
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How do I enable comments on an iWeb blog that is not hosted by MobileMe?

How do I enable comments on a blog that was created in iWeb and hosted by Go Daddy service?

You can install your own comment page using various methods...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Comments-Password-Protect.html
Example...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWebMusicWebsite/Comment.html
The alternative is to move your blog to Wordpress and retrieve all your comments from MobileMe before it disappears...
http://www.ragesw.com/products/iweb-to-wordpress.html
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Where exactly are the comments from my iWeb Site stored?

Anybody know where on my iDisk the user entered comments for my iWeb blog entries are stored? I looked around and couldn't find anything obvious.

Hmm interesting, although I'm not sure I follow the goal of your suggestion. What does appending this to the end of my blog link get me?

How do you add a comment box

how do you add a comment box in iweb?

There are 3rd party comment sites that can be added to an iWeb site for visitors to add comments: Disqus, Intensedebate and Echo are just 3 that are available.
Guestbooks are another way for visitors to make comments primarily for your viewing but you can embed the comment page in a website like in this demo page: Guestbook.
This is an example of the Disqus comments from Roddy's iWeb for Musicians site: Disqus Comment in a Scrolling iFrame
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Using Facebook Comments for iWeb Blog (non mobile me domain)

Upon moving from a mobileme hosted iWeb created blog to a personal domain, I obviously lost ability to use iWeb commenting. That in-of-itself was frustrating, so I've been scouting out new possibilities. Some have recommended IntenseDebate and others, but I'm curious if anyone has had luck using Facebook Comments? http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments
I've been able to use the Facebook Like HTML as a Widget not a problem, but haven't been able to get Comments to work.
www.kellerowski.com
Thanks in advance!

That is because it is a plugin and plugins won't work with iWeb as far as I am aware.
I would try http://www.intensedebate.com. It is very easy to set up and it works and you will be notified by e-mail every time somebody posts a comment. I use IntenseDebate on my own site and it works very well for me.
Your other alternative of course is to ditch the iWeb blog and create a blog link to a blog created in WordPress - you can use http://www.wordpress.org too if you uploading to another host, so you will then have www.domain.com/Blog.

Anyway to allow comments from readers on iWeb blogs when hosted on iPage?, Anyway to allow comments from readers on iWeb blogs when hosted on iPage?

Since Mobile Me is going away, I moved my iWeb pages to iPage. I started a blog but it won't allow readers to leave comments. Help says this feature is only available when hosted on MobileMe but MobileMe is going away! Does anyone know a way to enable reader comments to an iWeb created blog hosted on iPage?
Thanks!

The easiest way to correct your color problem is to upload the Disqus code as an HTML doc and display it in an iframe on your page. This way you can keep the black iWeb page and have the comments with a white background.
Open a text editor and paste your code. Export as HTML giving it a name like - comments.html
Upload this to the root folder on your server in a folder named - Disqus
The URL for the iframe code will be...
http://www.domain-name.com/Disqus/comments.html
This is the code for the HTML Snippet and you can change the height and width to suit your layout...
<iframe src="http://www.domain-name.com/Disqus/comments.html" frameborder="0" style="height:1000px;width:930px;padding-top:50px" scrolling="yes" allowTransparency="false" ></iframe>
Note that you need to add an identifier to each file if you want to use several - one for each blog entry.
var disqus_identifier = '0001';
var disqus_url = 'URL to the blog page';
The identifiers can simply be numbers like 0001, 0002, etc
The alternative is to style your own page if you want your comments section to have a black background. Disqus has a customizing option or you can create your own styles and add them to the head of the comments.html doc or reference a separate stylesheet. Disqus has info and guidelines about styling here...
http://docs.disqus.com/help/69/

Google Analytics Automator breaks iWeb blog comments

Hi
I added a blog for our Small Business site that I created with iWeb. We used Google Analytics and the Automator script add the HTML snippet to track visits on our site. Since I added the blog I realized that after running the GA automator script the "Add a comment" link disappears.
Kinda defeats the purpose of the blog. I have to choose between tracking how many visitors have been on the blog, or visitors posting comments, but I can't have both. How can I fix this and track how many visitors were on our site, and have a blog where visitors can leave comments? Any ideas and solutions would be most welcome. Thanks,
Zoltan

Unfortunately, as you have discovered, inserting Google Analytics into your site requires post editing. This means that you cannot just publish directly to MobileMe from iWeb - to insert the analytics you need to publish to a folder, insert and then place the Blog directly on your iDisk - unfortunately, this way you loose the features that your iWeb blog provides when published directly to MME - i.e. Blog comments.
Do you have an ordinary website too or is it just a blog? If you have an ordinary website, what some people do, including myself, is set up a blog with WordPress, E-blogger, or http://www.posterous.com and link to it from your iWeb site.
If you are just after setting up a blog on its own without a site, then I would suggest you look at http://www.wordpress.com, http://www.eblogger.com or posterous (link provided). You can set up a blog with any template you like and can add entries on line at any time, rather than being limited to updating with the domain.sites file as you are with iWeb.
In WordPress, you can also add as many pages as you like, so you can effectively have a website as well as a blog, so the other alternatives might be a better bet than iWeb and I think they have their own built in analytics too.

Google Analytics breaks iWeb blog comments

Does anybody know a workaround for Google Analytics' breaking of iWeb blog comments? Apparently, from some posts I've read, StatCounter and other traffic stat services break iWeb blog comments, too... so it's apparently an iWeb issue rather than a Google Analytics issue. FWIW, I'm publishing to my MobileMe personal domain. Thanks in advance!

I found a decent way of adding Google Analytics to all pages, without using HTML Snippits (which cause analytics to track those odd page names like widget2_markup.html), that doesn't break MobileMe comments, and doesn't require any post-processing of your iWeb site. Just Publish and go! Open up your iWeb app bundle, and drill down to Contents/Resources/Scripts/Site. Open up the file iWebSite.js in TextEdit (or your favorite text editor), and paste the following at the bottom of the file:
// Begin Google Analytics
gaTrackerId = 'ss-ddddddd-d'; // insert your tracker id here
document.observe('dom:loaded', function() {
var gaJsHost = ( ('https:' == document.location.protocol) ? 'https://ssl.' : 'http://www.') + 'google-analytics.com/ga.js';
var script = new Element('script', { 'src': gaJsHost});
var gaTrack = function() {
if (
!script.readyState
|| /loaded|complete/.test(script.readyState)
var pageTracker = gat.getTracker(gaTrackerId);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
script.observe('load', gaTrack);
script.observe('readystatechange', gaTrack);
document.body.appendChild(script);
// End Google Analytics
Credit to this solution goes to this blog post. I got the idea to find a way of using Google Analytics in Prototype (since iWeb sites use the Prototype JavaScript framework) and found that blog snippit.
And yes, since this is editing the iWeb application bundle, you may need to reapply this hack if/when iWeb is updated. Hopefully though, some enterprising iWeb engineer is reading this and will add proper Google Analytics support to iWeb for us.

Iweb blog comments

Hi people,
Could somebody help me?
i have published my site at www.dubkasm.com and used a blog page as a comments book, only when i publish the site there is no section like 'add comment' or 'post message'. How can i do this? Any help much appreciated!
Cheers,
Ben (Brazil)

Try searching the forum as this has been covered before.
As far as I can remeber Blog comments created through iWeb are stored server side on .Mac somewhere, so exporting your site to another domain, other than .Mac, will make comments inactive.

Blog comment box

How do I add a comment blog to my blog page without it going to archive? I want the comment box underneath a specific column and cannot figure out how to accomplish this task.

I think I want this too, I want to be able to only allow certain blog entries to have comments not all entries.
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IWeb, Blogging and Comments when using a different Host

Hi
I have an iWeb site, using Google Domain name, and hosting services of Network Solutions. I want to add a Blog to my site but allow for comments. Currently, iWeb is telling me that comments are added only if I use my MobileMe account. Is there a way to have a blog in iWeb, publish through my current host and have a comment feature that will update properly without kinks? I am considering using Blogger (Google) but unsure of what to do. Any suggestions or realities are accepted! Thanks

Just use Blogger or WordPress to create your blog and then you can place a link on your website to your blog. Either that or you can display your blog directly in your site by using iframe code.
Your other alternative is to use the iWeb blog and use something like http://www.intensedebate.com as a comment feature. You could include it on the same page as the blog or put it on a different page.
Personally, I don't like the iWeb blog, so I use WordPress for my blog and just keep a link to it from my site so that it goes straight to the blog and then opens in a new page.

Links left in comment box (long ones, anyway) don't work

I keep having trouble with links left in my comments box... unless they start with www. they seem to be defective. See todays blog post http://web.me.com/mej5/Site/Blog/Entries/2010/1/19Newbie_Learning_Curve.html#commentlayer
Two examples there. Does it have to do with the excessive length of some links? or is there some secret. I've seen links in other iweb blogs.
thanks

The first link works fine. However the second one has an apostrophe ( ' ) in the URL and that's what's breaking the link.
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Comment box not showing up

I just published my entire iweb site to a folder so that i could export it to a wordpress site. Then I went back to publish another blog post via mobileme and the comment box does not show up. I updated all of my software, tried to recreate the post agian and republish it and did a new "test" post, which came up with no comment box as well. I would love to hear if anyone has any suggestions... Or am I just at the end of the line with iweb?
http://www.playfulearning.com/Playful_Learning/Blog/Entries/2012/3/6_Mama_Time__ A_Cart_of_One%E2%80%99s_Own.html
Thank you...

The comments feature does not work if hosted on a server other than MMe:
Features Unavailable When Publishing to a 3rd Party Server:
◼ Password protection
◼ Blog and photo comments
◼ Blog search
◼ Hit counter
Currently if the site is published directly from iWeb to the 3rd party server the RSS feed and slideshow subscription features will work. However, if the site is first published to a folder on the hard drive and then uploaded to the sever with a 3rd party FTP client those two feature will be broken.
So if you want to have user comments with your blog you'll need to use a 3rd party commenting system like Discover your community - DISQUS, IntenseDebate or Echo - Products.
Another option is to conver your iWeb blog to a Wordpress blog with Rage Software's iWeb to WordPress for Mac OS X. Or start a new blog at one of the established blogging sites and embed it into your iWeb page like in this demo page: Embed a Site Within an iWeb Page
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No comments on dot mac blog

I checked the comment box in the RSS and I "publish all" but the comments option doesn't show up on my blog. What else do I need to do? It's a very simple blog, I haven't added anything advanced. I use their template and just add a picture and type the text, nothing fancy.
TIA
Amanda
here it is for reference
http://web.mac.com/wagiraud/iWeb/Oh,%20Shoot%21/Oh,%20Shoot/Oh,%20Shoot.html
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Amanda ~ The URL of your blog page (and other pages) contains "%20", as shown above.
...iWeb's Help viewer says:
"Browsers convert spaces in site names to "%20." To avoid these symbols, use an underscore, hyphen, or some other character instead of a space. Also avoid non-Roman characters; many get converted to numbers when you publish."
This may or may not be causing the "comment" problem, but anyway your page names should not contain spaces. Replace them by the other characters suggested above and perhaps it will help.
After you've replaced the spaces in so many of your page names, it's advisable in iWeb to then do +File > Publish All to .Mac+. Following that, if you still have the problem, post back here.

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