iWeb: In published site, Add Comment links don't display or work correctly

Products Affected

.Mac/iWeb website hosting, MobileMe, iLife

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Symptoms

The iWeb 1.1 update adds comment support for blogs and podcasts (MobileMe published sites only). Depending on which font and templates you use, the "Add Comment" link may not function correctly in your published blog entries.

If you experience this issue, instead of an Add Comments link at the bottom of your blog entry, you may see a non-functional link that reads @post or @comment.

Resolution

Update to iWeb 1.1.1 or later and republish any pages which use Arial fonts. If you're not able to update immediately, you can use the following steps:

  1. Open Font Book, located in your Applications folder.
  2. Disable the Arial Family of fonts in your User collection. For more info see Turning off fonts.
  3. In iWeb, create a new blog or podcast to replace the old one.
  4. If you have content in the old blog that you wish to keep, cut and paste it into new entries in the new blog or podcast.
  5. Delete the old blog or podcast from the Site Organizer.
  6. Publish your site.

If you do not create new blogs after disabling the fonts in your user collection, you may see "Missing Font" error messages when you open iWeb.

Note: Mac OS X installs fonts in /Library/Fonts, including Arial fonts. Some software packages install fonts on your computer when you install or first launch an application. Those fonts will typically be installed in ~/Library/Fonts.

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