Adding Haloscan Comments to iWeb

17 Apr '08 Filed under Tutorials, iTweak, iWeb -

Are you one of those users who would wish to have comments integrated right into your site but you are publishing to a folder and so you can’t do that? Or you just want to use the awesome technology of Halscan to power your comments? This tutorial will show you in an extremely easy way how to do this!

For this tutorial, we will be using a free application called iTweak. It has been made to simplify such additions to the iWeb application and so it is just perfect to use.

So let’s get right started!

  1. First step is easy! Download iTweak and sign up for a Haloscan account.
    Use the account to modify the styling of your comments stuff and make it appeal to you.
  2. Now, choose any existing pages and add a text-box to it which will later hold a link to allow visitors to add comments or trackbacks. Make sure you leave the text-box with it’s default style (ie.: do not change any fonts, colors, fills or whatever with the text-box).
  3. In the text-box write the following keyword. It will later be replaced with the actual comments link:

    %%HALOSCAN_COMMENTS%%

    See this image:

  4. Now publish your site and once it has finished, open iTweak and navigate to the “Discussion” tab. Right at the top you have the ability to type in your Haloscan username. Type it in and choose if you only wish to have comments, trackbacks or both.
  5. Choose your published site by hitting the “Choose published Site.” If you publish your site to a folder, you should know where you can find it. If you publish to .Mac, you find your site at the following path. iWeb ‘08 users use this path:

    iDisk/Web/Sites/SITENAME

    On the other hand, iWeb ‘06 users follow this path:

    iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/SITENAME

    Don’t forget to tick the check-mark for adding the Haloscan comments! If not ticked, it won’t do it.

  6. Lastly, you can hit the “Process” button and then your done! Make sure you are connected to the internet for the comments to show up.

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19 Comments

  1. Caroline K posted:
    19 Apr 08 at 2:44 pm

    Thanks for making iTweak and this tutorial. You have helped me in so many ways with iWeb! Thanks.

  2. Casper K posted:
    19 Apr 08 at 4:03 pm

    When i press process site after following your guide it says

    “finder got an error: Can’t get name of alias “esparende:Web:sites:iweb:DJ Casper k:index.html”. (-1728)

    what is it i am doing wrong???

    -casper k-

  3. Max Karreth posted:
    21 Apr 08 at 5:12 pm

    Did you deactivate iDsik syncing?

  4. Dominic Halpin posted:
    23 Apr 08 at 3:34 pm

    when i tried this the website is blank ?/ whit, untill I re publish without the %% HALOSCAN……

    Any Ideas
    Dominic

  5. Matt posted:
    24 Apr 08 at 10:19 pm

    I have typed %%%HALOSCAN_COMMENTS%% as a text box like the instructions say on three different pages of my site. However, when I publish the site and view it a browser, the “Comments” button is only clickable on one of the pages, so I can only make comments on one page. However, I can rank out of 5 stars on all three pages, so something about the Haloscan must be working, just not the comments part. Any ideas?

  6. Josh Penzell posted:
    04 May 08 at 1:01 am

    Hi Guys. I appreciate (as I’m sure we all do) the effort with itweak. One problem I have with the comments is it does add “Comments and Trackback” to the main blog entry pages, but not to the blog “mainpage” that lists several of the newer blog entries in a long column–here it still shows &&Haloscan_comments%%.

    I have plenty of other comments and suggestions to make a program I would definitely pay for, but that’s for starters. :-)

  7. Max Karreth posted:
    07 May 08 at 6:17 pm

    Josh & Matt,

    Are you sure you have typed the keyword correctly? With capital letters, cases and symbols correctly typed? Did the text-box convert to an image? Make sure that doesnt happen!

    Is the text-box in the front of all other objects? That will make it clickable.

    Josh - feel free to shoot ahead with any ideas you have!

    Max

  8. Gaby posted:
    17 May 08 at 6:06 pm

    Hi Max!
    Your site has helped me enormously.
    I was wondering if it’s possible to get in-line comments with iTweak, as opposed to having a pop-up window open every time someone leaves a comment.

    Thanks!

    Gaby

  9. Gaby posted:
    17 May 08 at 6:09 pm

    Also, any ideas why my site takes so long to load?

    Thanks in advance.

  10. Matt posted:
    17 May 08 at 6:39 pm

    I try to select iDisk/Web/Sites/SITENAME but the iDisk/Web is greyed out. Any suggestions?

  11. Matt posted:
    17 May 08 at 6:59 pm

    So I figured the first issue out. Now I get

    “There has been an error while trying to add the comments.”

    I’ve triple checked the keyword.

  12. jana posted:
    23 May 08 at 2:13 am

    Hello Max

    thanks for your informative site, i really like it.
    I installed haloscan with my iweb, but i dont like the pop up window. Is there any way I can make the comments appear in the page instead? thanks!!!

  13. Max Karreth posted:
    24 May 08 at 9:49 am

    Matt - Did you choose your site? Is iDisk syncing deactivated?

    Jana - No way to change that sorry. The thing is that iWebs content is strict. There is no way to extend the bottom line and so no, only popups.

    Max

  14. Paul Castellanos posted:
    26 May 08 at 8:46 pm

    I got this error when I did what your tutorial suggested:
    Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/airwaysu/public_html/neurolaryngology/index.php on line 1
    This came up when I started the page to be open for comments.
    pfc

  15. Paul Castellanos posted:
    27 May 08 at 1:21 am

    I am no longer getting this error but still have not gotten any form of a comments box or system up. I have gone to the Holoscan site and opened an account. I have also gotten a google based Blogspot. Is there a way to link this to your page. This is not clear. I tried to follow the instructions on the Holoscan site for placing the HTML code on your page but can’t find the way to see the code for the page to follow the instructions specifically. Any suggestions?
    pfc

  16. Max Karreth posted:
    28 May 08 at 6:31 pm

    why do you have php files in your iweb site?

  17. Adam posted:
    30 May 08 at 1:55 am

    Hey Max! The board that we are using right now is exactly what I am trying to set up, where it is embedded within the main page. How can I do that, without setting up a link to an outside page?

    Thanks for this great great website!!

    Adam

  18. Heather White posted:
    10 Jun 08 at 8:28 am

    Is it possible to have the comments link say something other than comments? Such as reviews? Thanks.

  19. Steve Manitt posted:
    15 Jul 08 at 11:29 pm

    I have tried unsuccessfully to add the Haolscan Comments. I have followed your directions I believe correctly. When I click “process site”, I get a window saying comments error and then a window saying contact-form error. Do you have any suggestions?

    Thank you

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