Thread: Any good web designers here?

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.