Blog Comment Solutions

25. December 2007, 14:47 UhrUsability, Pop-ups, Interfaces, Blogging, Good Design, Bad DesignAlexis Brion



Encouraging users to give you feedback is not that easy, if you are designing a blog you should make the posting procedure as simple as possible. Otherwise many users will get impatient and leave without writing any comment.One example of complicated design could be the SEOmoz blog. The content of this blog is very useful but if you want to post a comment a pop-up is prompted and users are asked to login or register.

SEOmoz blog Register 20071225

Note that the Register button is not visible, users must drug the window (although that might depend on the screen configuration). This adds one more usability flaw to this interface.Then another floating window to post the comment:

SEOmoz blog Window 20071225

Techcrunch, the famous blog, has a much more practical solution for posting comments. I will go for simple solutions, allowing users to post straight away.

Techcrunch Post Comment 20071225

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8 comments:

  1. Cory Perry, 28. December 2007, 19:11

    I agree that some sites make it rather difficult to leave comments, but for the most part it is easy to do. I often see usability flaws with comment forms, and I often see extremely robust spam protection that I think is overkill.

    Great article though, I am sure some people will find it useful.

     
  2. Clarisse, 9. January 2008, 14:24

    Thats right! they do that to prevent spam comment which not related to site topic.. by the way, the posted topic of the author was really great for those who wanted to know more about on blog spamming. keep it up…cheers

     
  3. Daphne, 17. January 2008, 10:56

    This is really a great information Sir… In terms of blog comments, some just don’t really leave comment for a purpose but to just spam your site of links that are not really related on the topic. And maybe that’s why we can’t blame other for letting us have difficulties leaving comments. :) Anyway, thanks for the information.

     
  4. maky, 22. January 2008, 15:23

    now it’s better having that one..thanks for sharing..reducing spammers thats the way to do it…

     
  5. Gazete başlıkları, 6. April 2008, 1:00

    I like what you write here,thanks.

     
  6. Web Developer, 9. April 2008, 14:47

    I think that a pop-up window for a registration is not the best solution as it can annoy visitor when they simply want to explore the site.

     
  7. Tim, 17. April 2008, 14:36

    I agree that some sites make it rather difficult to leave comments, but for the most part it is easy to do.
    Pop-up window for a registration is not the best solution

     
  8. Bruce Arnold, 16. July 2008, 14:31

    Although automated comment moderation to prevent spamming is always a consideration, one must also weigh that against the possibility of penalizing false positives. At PervasivePersuasion.com, we encourage our web design clients to follow the KISS principle on issues like this.

     

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