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What is web commentary?
Web commentary is the facility to allow you, your staff or your visitors to
add their comments to a web page. A classic example of web commentary
is allowing restaurant visitors to add their comments to a page
that reviews the restaurant.
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When and how is this useful
The system is very flexible and may be used in a variety of
specialist ways. The predominant way the facilities are typically
used are twofold.
Firstly, you can invite visitors (or others) to add their
comments to a web page that provides information of some sort. The
restaurant application above is one example. Another interesting
example is to set out some technical instructions for users
and allow the users to add their own tips or suggestions
for the benefit of others (or as a reminder for themselves for
future).
Secondly, you can have a blank, or sparsely filled, page which
can be used as a Bulletin Board (to solicit group discussion,
for example), or as a Notice Board (allowing notification of
mundane information to all staff, for example, which
might include details of key staff whereabouts in case of
only occasional need).
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How does it work?
Any page can be "enabled". The relevant boxes
and buttons are filled in automatically by our central system.
All comments submitted by a visitor are added to a
database, and the submission is automatically confirmed by
email both to the visitor and yourself, if desired.
You have the option of comments appearing automatically or
appearing only after you have explicitly approved them, so
control is retained at all times. You have the ability to
edit or remove any comment that you may feel is inappropriate.
Comments that pass the above test are then automatically
filled in to a box within the enabled web page whenever
a visitor looks at the page.
The comments can be displayed in either of two ways. One is
simply in descending date order (most recent comment appearing
first). The other way is displaying by topic (which tends to be
more popular for the "Bulletin Board" application).
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Show me an example
We have set up a sample site to illustrate the facilities.
Click on the image to see the site.
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