Interactivity is a great way to keep your website visitors coming back. If your website features a service or product, it’s almost essential to let your visitors rate and comment. JS-Kit is great tool for exactly these needs, and it is extremely easy to implement. It comes with all sorts of neat features, and the best thing about it is there is nothing to install. Simply cut and paste a couple lines of code into your HTML and there you go, instant interactivity. To give your visitors the ability to add comments to an item on a web page, for example, paste the following where you want the comments to start:
<div class="js-kit-comments" permalink=""></div>
<script src="http://js-kit.com/comments.js"></script>
In addition to comments, there is a JS-Kit code for ratings, reviews, polls, and a new service called navigator which pulls many of these services together to show site-wide information.
For more than the basic features, you can add to your couple lines of code. For example, if you want to paginate your comments after 10, add “paginate=10″ to your first div. If you want the comments and ratings to work together on a specific item, use the reviews code and make sure to add the “path” attribute so the two will be linked. JS-Kit has documentation on all these additional features on their website.
JS-Kit will magically keep all your website information tallied, and somehow will also know if you are the admin of the site. You can moderate comments and administer your settings without ever registering or logging in to anything. Your visitors can also magically keep a profile, upload an avatar image, and see their comments, reviews or ratings without logging in.
While initial installation of the code is simple, customization requires some knowledge of CSS and sometimes a little javascript. We have experience with most of the additional features of JS-Kit, so contact us if you need any help. We’d also love to see examples of your own JS-Kit at work!