Spent a few hours trying to get HaloScan to work as a comment option for the website. I can get it to work just fine on small test pages, but the minute I try pasting the Javascript onto this page I start getting scripting errors.
UPDATE: Well, I opened up the HTML again and repasted the exact same text into it. And now it works just fine. Go figure…
UPDATE REDUX: Weirdness abounds. When I double-checked the HTML code again, I discovered I had entered one line of the Javascript twice. I removed the superfluous line… and for reasons beyond comprehending this caused my background color to turn white. So I tried resetting that. And, after much experimentation, I have discovered that in order to keep my current layout I either need to duplicate the Javascript line or I need to duplicate the “<body bgcolor=”#000000″ text=”#FFFFFF”>” code. This, of course, makes no bloody sense.
And I’ve discovered that the exact same thing happens on the Archive page when I add the HaloScan Javascript there. Whacky.
Ah well. If there’s one thing I’ve learned about tinkering with computers: If you’ve figured out how to make something work, even if you’ve got no idea why it’s working, it’s probably easier to accept the success you’ve already got.
HaloScan does seem to be slowing down the loading of the page. So we’ll have to see how that goes before making a judgment on whether or not this will be a final solution.
