My website has lots of articles. At the bottom of each is a Comments section.
It has a header bar with “What do you think?” followed by buttons on the next line (e.g. ‘Add a Comment’, ‘Log In’, ‘Create an Account’). Lastly are the comments themselves which are one on top of another.
But where should I place my Comments Form to capture new comments?
Here are two options…
1.) When a Member clicks ‘Add a Comment’, I could swap out the Comments section I just described with a Comments Form.
2.) When a Member clicks ‘Add a Comment’, I go to a blank page and have a Comments Form there instead.
Option #1 is much harder to code, but has the benefit of allowing people to scroll up/down to see other people’s comments as they are commenting.
What do you think is a reasonable layout?
Debbie