Page-by-page Comments on Website

looking for a page-by-page way to allow visitors to leave comments

[KeithDouglas]

I am considering adding a system to allow visitors to my site to leave comments on a page-by-page basis. I mean, on whatever page I choose there would be a link to "comments about this page" that would lead to a page or a popup of comments other people have left, or maybe some/all of the comments would be displayed at the bottom of the page, and visitors would be able to leave comments, etc.

There are a few websites that provide this service (haloscan, for example). But I think I might prefer something that runs on my server.

Any recommendations or thoughts?

[rogerd]

You could use blog software as a content manager - that would make it easy to control your content as well as offer a built-in mechanism for visitor comments. No coding needed, plus some blog software offers tools like IP blocking to discourage problem visitors.

[KeithDouglas]

You could use blog software as a content manager - that would make it easy to control your content as well as offer a built-in mechanism for visitor comments.

Very true. If I were starting out fresh that would be a consideration. But the site already exists, has its own domain name, has illustrations and advertising, and it is well represented in search engines.

[rogerd]

Hmmm, in that case I'd sort through some script sites like hotscripts.com. Maybe a "review" script would fit the bill.

[eman]

You didn't mention if you were a programmer or not, but the fastest way I could think of is to open up an e-mail address "[e-mail]" and just hardcode those "comments about this page" links to a mailto command with a subject line of "comments for page: blah", changing the blah with each additional page name.

If you were a coder, I would assign each page an ID, write it down somewhere internally. Make each one of those feedback links go to the same feedback form page. At the same time, passing the pageID to the feedback form. When your user puts in their name and comments and clicks send, your script can switch out the ID for the actual page name, and use the scripting mail command to the send the completed message to your feedback e-mail account. Hope that sounds clear enough.

-EMAN