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I want to add a comments section to my website, like when you post a blog or something and people can leave a comment for you. I don't know how to add this to my site, does anyone know?
I get a lot of email messages etc, and I would rather have them as comments, more for promotion of my music etc...
Anyone know an easy way to do this?
Thanks,
Adam
Do you host the site yourself?
yes
You'll need to integrate it into your site, thats providing your site is not a free hosted one with little options.
You'll then have to either pay for or get some open source Blog layout plugins/coding for your site, then if your using dreamweaver, just integrate it into it and upload it all to your ftp server. Its fairly straight forward and the majority of blog layouts are friendly with DreamWeaver and other programs like it so that you can add it in more of a graphical way.
I believe there is a way you can manually do it, but its up to you at the end of the day, i'd be happy to help you get it up if you need the help.
I pay for my hosting and everything, nothing is free so got access to everything if needed - where can I get the software and stuff to do it?
If it's a 'nix system, there are a zillion programs out there to do it - search Source Forge for one.
The problem you are going to encounter is keeping it spammer-free. I've abandoned commenting on all the sites I manage because they are so diligent.
Something like this http://www.gentlesource.com/comment-script/
Though there are policies on that one even though its free, check it out, if your still struggling let me know and i'll have another look, but its that general sort of thing you need.
Cool I'm probably going to do this with my website as well. =)
I am looking for something like this :)
http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2008/01...-2007-podcast/
You can have exactly that if you like, obviously you can adjust styles, but here is the link to where you can get this addon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
http://wordpress.org/
That won't work because I have my own Server. You need to use theirs, I have already read through all their documentation and they don't allow integration into my website unless I do it though them :(
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Originally Posted by Adam
Lol, you have exhausted my knowledge, i will keep looking, i'll enquire about it and see what i can find out for ya. We'll get you that comments section, don't you worry! :D
Umm.... I'm fairly good with php, so I could probably code you a comment script like that from Scratch for you, provided I had all the right details such as table names/fields and stuff of that sort.
I am looking for something as simple as this: http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2008/01...-2007-podcast/
TO go onto my site (under construction) here: http://www.djadamash.com
:)
So you just want a comment script so people can leave comments? I can do that, but I'll be honest and say that layout design, isn't my strong suit, so I could do all the raw code for you, html fields and such, but you might want to get someone to put it into a good layout or do that part yourself.
Do you have MSN? If so, add me and we can talk on there.
Awesome thanks, I have something in th pipeline, if all fails I will give you a shout :D
Okay so I am almost there - if someone who knows this stuff could take a look and let me know what I am doing wrong that would be great - it you go to www.djadamash.com and go to the comments tab - there is something not quite right, and I don't know what, would anyone mind taking a look please? :D
Ahah! Almost complete, although the boxes have gone all funny on the comment section - why????? :(