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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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Walt,
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http://www.mac.com/1/currencytable.html
For $20 more, you can get twice the server space (4GB), and I think that also includes a lot more bandwidth per month than the family pack, but I am not sure about that. For $30 less, you have the same amount of space as the family pack. What you don't have is the 4 additional e-mail addresses. You can purchase those separately for $10 a year, or, you can use up to 5 free e-mail aliases per account. The drawback to aliases is that messages sent to them will all end up in the main account's inbox, which may or may not work for you --perhaps only if all the e-mails are intended for the webmaster and that is you for all these sites. Of course, you could always list individual non-.Mac e-mail addresses on a contact page, and probably turn them into hyperlinks so that if people click on them, their e-mail app will open a new e-mail addressed to that person. May not be the most elegant way to do it, but if you're trying to save money, maybe it's good enough.
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