iWeb FAQ - Feedback Comments
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How can I have users leaving me comments on my website? How can I provide a form in iWeb that visitors can complete and return via e-mail?
Index of the Feedback FAQ:
Page 1: Comments (you’re here)
Page 2: Forms
Another idea is using a Guestbook (visit the Guestbook FAQ)
Page 1
CHAPTER 1: If you’re uploading to MobileMe
CHAPTER 2: If you’re not uploading to MobileMe or want to add comments to other pages than Blogs and PhotoPages use Haloscan and iTweak or iComment
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2.1 What is Haloscan and what does it offer?
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2.2 How do I add Haloscan comments to my site using iTweak? (Freeware) (Recommended)
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2.3 How do I add Haloscan comments using iComment? (Not Freeware, Cost: 10$)
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2.4 Do Haloscan comments let people attach files in their comments?
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2.5 Is it possible to have the comments to display directly in the page instead of having a link and a new window popping up (Inline comments)?
CHAPTER 1: If you’re uploading to MobileMe
If you upload to MobileMe you can enable comments in Blogs which could actually be used for feedback. Just select a Blog, open the Inspector, RSS, check the Allow Comments box. Or select a PhotoPage, open Inspector go to Photos and check the Allow comments box. Those comments only work with MobileMe and you can add them only on Blog pages and PhotoPages. If you’re using MobileMe and want to add comments on pages other than Blogs and PhotoPages or you are not using MobileMe go on reading...
A lot of people report that they’re having issues with the MobileMe comment feature:
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-Each time you edit the html code of your pages post-publishing the MobileMe comments won’t work anymore
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-Often people can’t publish comments to websites using that feature (mostly people using PCs)
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-Losing comments and can’t get them back
Thus I’d recommend to use Haloscan comments also to people whom publish to MobileMe
CHAPTER 2: If you’re not uploading to MobileMe or want to add comments to other pages than Blogs and PhotoPages use Haloscan and iTweak or iComment
If you're not using MobileMe or want to add comments to pages other than Blogs and PhotoPages iWeb comments will not work but you can insert a comment using Haloscan.
2.1 What is Haloscan and what does it offer?
Haloscan is a free service which, among other stuff, provides an excellent comment functionality.
You can (but don’t have to if you don’t want to) manage comments, get notified by e-mail when you have a new comment, edit comments, hide comments and not display them to the public (if you want to), and lots more...
2.2 How do I add Haloscan comments to my site using iTweak? (Freeware) (Recommended)
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1.Open iWeb
2. On a page you want to add the Comment functionality to add a Text Box in which you type
%%HALOSCAN_COMMENTS%%
Copy the textbox and paste it to all the other pages you want to have the feature added to
3. Publish your website to a folder or to MobileMe
4. Open iTweak
5. Under “Discussion” type in your Haloscan username
6. Choose whether you want or not have Comments or Trackbacks by checking or unchecking the box
7. Go to Options and check the “Integrate Comments” box.
8. Click on “Choose Published Site”
- If you publish to a folder choose the folder you publish to from iWeb
- If you publish to MobileMe select your iDisk/Web/Sites/ folder where iWeb publishes to.
If you can’t choose the iDisk because you don’t see it go to Finder/Preferences/Sidebar and check the box near the iDisk
9. Hit “Process Site” and you’re done.
Note: You have to run iTweak every time you re-publish from iWeb.
What is iTweak? and what is it good for? Have a look at this page
For further information and download on guimkie.com
2.3 How do I add Haloscan comments using iComment ? (Not Freeware, Cost: 10$)
iComment asks me to select a folder, which folder do I select?
-If you’re not using MobileMe and you export to a folder you have to select the folder you export your website to.
-If you’re using MobileMe you have to select the Sites folder on your iDisk.
2.4 Do Haloscan comments let people attach files in their comments?
No. You would have to add another script for doing that ( Google search ) through an html snippet or add an e-mail address for sending you files. But it provides a link to a image hosting service which provides a link that can be put into the comment.
2.5 Is it possible to have the comments to display directly in the page instead of having a link and a new window popping up (Inline comments)?
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2.5.1 If you used iTweak or iComment before (thus already have comments)
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2.5.2 For new pages and if you didn’t use neither iComment nor iTweak (no comments yet) (Easier)
Haloscan also provides a code for inline comments so they display directly in the page (without popup) but that doesn't work for iWeb. So the best solution to achieve that would be using an iFrame.
When you add the comments to a page and a comment is added at Haloscan's website a new thread is created for that page's comments.
2.5.1 If you used iTweak or iComment before (thus already have comments)
The address of a Haloscan Comments thread page is:
www.haloscan.com/comments/YourHaloscanName/Name_of_the_page_html
As an example this is the address of my iWebFAQ main page's comments
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/alaskadream/iWeb_FAQ_html
To find out the addresses of the thread just right-click (ctrl-click) on a # of a comment and choose "Open in a new window"
In the browser where the url displays you will find something like this
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/alaskadream/iWeb_FAQ_html#39078
just delete the # and the part that shows after that sign (in the example #39078) and the result is the link that goes in an iframe.
<iframe src=
"http://www.haloscan.com/comments/username/pagename_html"
style="width:400px; height:500px;
border-color:#990033;
border-style:solid;
border-width:0px"
scrolling="yes" >
</iframe>
An example of this method can be seen at the bottom of this page
2.5.2 For new pages and if you didn’t use neither iComment nor iTweak (no comments yet) (Easier)
Instead of running iTweak or iComment and going through the procedure mentioned above there’s an easier way...
The address of a Haloscan Comments thread page is:
www.haloscan.com/comments/YourHaloscanName/Name_of_the_page_html
So all you have to do is change YourHaloscanName to your Haloscan username
And change Name_of_the_page to the name of the page in iWeb.
<iframe src=
"http://www.haloscan.com/comments/username/pagename_html"
style="width:400px; height:500px;
border-color:#990033;
border-style:solid;
border-width:0px"
scrolling="yes" >
</iframe>
An example of this method can be seen at the bottom of this page
NOTE: For all the possibilities mentioned on this page you don’t have to know any html/php coding or anything. Just Copy&Paste codes into snippets.
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