
It so happened that quite recently I showed iWeb to my girlfriend, and she undertook to make a website for herself on it. The work went quickly, the set of iWeb functionality, although not very wide, is quite sufficient for simple websites and is very easy to use. The only thing she lacked was the ability to leave comments. After reading the help, I learned that this functionality is supported only for sites hosted on MobileMe, and I absolutely did not want to pay an account that costs $ 99 a year just for hosting a simple site. Therefore, I began to look for an alternative solution to the problem of comments.
As it turned out, a lot of people encountered the same problem and they offer many different solutions - from an additional program that inserts JScript code for HaloScan comments to all blog pages, to a Python script that replaces the
CommentsHere text with a comment block. Naturally, none of these decisions appealed to me — I wanted to add comments to any page, and it was as easy as adding a picture.
The thought of comments did not give me peace for two days and now ... I downloaded a new iLife '09 — a lot of nice innovations, I’ve
already written about iPhoto, but I decided to see what's new in iWeb. And then a pleasant one was waiting for me - full-fledged widgets appeared in iWeb! Unfortunately, in the standard package there are very few of them, and nowhere on the Apple website I have found information that they can be downloaded. Widgets !!! Here's how to add comments to the pages simply and visually!
In general, I took up a text editor, picked up the standard HTMLregion widget, I certainly didn’t understand much of the work of widgets, but I still made a simple JS-Kit commentary widget for iWeb '09!
View widget in iWeb editorView widget in browser')
Download widget JSComments.iwdgt.zipTo install, the file JSComments.iwdgt must be placed in /Applications/iWeb.app/Contents/Resources/Widgets/ (double click on the iWeb file, but unfortunately the widget does not automatically install)
Waiting for feedback on this craft, unless of course someone else among the habrokes is using iWeb.