I've come to a wall with the photography portfolio that I'm putting up. I've set up all the pages and started the initial uploading/placing of photos.

I'm using the greymatter blogging software to keep track of my entries, but there is a problem with the software and the way that I have my site set up -- it won't allow visitors to add/view pop-up comments without having the original page's html all crammed into the pop up box. I don't want that -- I just want a small clean pop up window with input fields for comments and a section in the window displaying how many/if any comments have been thus far received.

What I'm wondering is if anyone knows of a way to insert some sort of code so that I can have pop-up commenting for each of the photos and for the link to display how many comments the entry has received?

I think it's important to get feedback on work, so it's a feature that I would like to have, but at the moment it's just frustrating because I can't seem to get it working to my liking... any help would be immensely appreciated..

 

I know how to add interactive pop-ups or context menus with Flash mx. Do you want a physical pop-up window or a pop-up that enables "displays" when the mouse is moved over it or when someone clicks on it???

 

Basically I want each photo to display how many comments it's gotten as a link and if the user clicks on it, a small pop up comes up with a text field where they can enter in their info and write a comment about that particular photo.

 

Is this greymatter thing very customizable? If it is, this is quite trivial to accomplish with HTML/Javascript (though that would make this feature reliant on site visitors not disabling Javascript).

First, create the HTML page for the pop up (containing the <textarea> field, the number of comments already posted, and anything else you want). Lets call this popUp.html. Then on the existing page that display the photo, add the following link:
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Where [options] are options related to the pop up window such as the size of the window, whether or not the toolbar appears, the menubar, statusbar, resizable etc. (Look here for more info, you can probably find better references elsewhere on the Internet as well http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/tut27c.html)

 

Also, what's this greymatter written in? PHP? CGI?

 

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