Comments on: A Weblog Template With Comments

By: John Conners

John Conners — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:24:02 +0000

Yeah, a couple of years ago I switched to Movable Type and recently Wordpress. Web-based CMS software really has come along and is now a much better choice in my opinion than CityDesk since you can edit it from anywhere. However, I still use CityDesk to create Windows help files for software I write - frankly there's no better tool for it that I've come across! It's a shame Joel didn't keep on developing CityDesk but since FogBugz is such an amazing success and CityDesk only moderate I completely understand why he's put his resources elsewhere. I'm sure if he'd open source it or something there would be people (like myself) keen to develop it further but I guess some revenue still trickles in for it so it's not worth his while doing it.

By: Colm

Colm — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:28:29 +0000

Sorry, it’s obviously too early Sunday morning. It says very clearly at the top of the page “I used to use ….”

By: Colm

Colm — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 05:26:14 +0000

I haven’t tried the solution, but the article has me interested!

I’m always fascinated to see how lively the CityDesk community still is – despite Joel’s refusal to develop the software further

Cheers, Colm (an Irishman living in Germany!)

P.S. Now I’m disappointed – I wanted to check the spam catcher and I got an error message from WordPress. A quick look at the source of this page, shows that it’s not a CityDesk page

By: John Conners

John Conners — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:31:29 +0000

Oh, don’t worry Andy, it’s sorted!

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:27:14 +0000

Marcel – the mail thing is pretty easy (2 lines). In the unlikely event that John hasn’t got back to you, let me know. I use John’s comments stuff and have modified them to do a few things.

By: Marcel

Marcel — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:57:25 +0000

Hi John,
Love your template and used it directly on my site. It worked. I’ve just two questions:
- is it hard to give it a bad-word-filter?
- is it hard to add the functionality that the webmaster is mailed each time there is a new comment. If possible with the content.

Let me explain my questions. I’ve got a website about Polar bears. Very popular. Kids use it to make projects and so on. But some kids use the comments-feature to express other meanings than questions or remarks about Polar Bears. They curse or use other language I don’t think is appropiate. It’s impossible for me to check each day all comments…
I’ll send you this comment als by mail…:)

By: John Conners

John Conners — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:49:35 +0000

I use IIS along with MySQL and PHP on my windows box, I don’t use Apache. If you download PHP and MySQL from the links in the article and follow the instructions you shouldn’t have any problems getting it to work (famous last words). Drop me a line if you get stuck.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 04:03:16 +0000

Stupid Question: To get preview to work ok on my PC (XP Pro), do I need to install Apache too and/or have IIS running?

Put another way, what webserver do you have installed together with MySQL and PHP?

Thanks for taking the time to write this up and make it available!