Blogcomments is a commenting system that you can use for your weblog or online journal. I have made blogcomments for my own journal once upon a time when commenting was not included in most blog software. If you are looking for a good place to start your blog, I can recommend Blogger.
Requirements for using blogcomments:
- Some experience with website publishing and HTML.
- A webserver with active server pages capabilities (Microsoft IIS), or access to an ASP webhost like Brinkster.
Download blogcomments
First you need to download a ZIP file containing the ASP pages and a MS Access database.
The list of files that have to be in the ZIP file:
comment.aspcomments.cssconstants.aspdb_action.asperrorpage.aspgeneralfunctions.aspreadout.aspblogcomment.mdb
Tutorials are also included in the ZIP file as html files.
Install blogcomments
Installing is easy. A tutorial is included in the ZIP file or you can access the tutorial from this website. The steps that have to be performed to get blogcomments running:
- Configure some settings in a configuration file.
- Upload the ASP files and the Microsoft Access database to the webserver.
- Put up a link to the comments from your weblog or journal.
Changing appearances
The layout of the comments page is very flexible. I have used the power of CSS to make the setup as flexible as possible. A tutorial with directions to change the appearance is included in the ZIP file.
Terms of use
- Blogcomments is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
- Blogcomments is free to use. You are allowed to change the code to let it work on your preferred database if you like.
- You are not allowed to (re)package my code in another product and ask a monetary fee for it.
- Blogcomments is not a professional or commercial product, so support cannot be demanded.
- This version of Blogcomments is the final one. There won’t be any sort of update in the future.