Guestbooks are great additions that let your webpages step out of
the one-way-communication-universe.
The
guestbooks listed are free and remote hosted.
They
can be customized to fit the layout of your site.
Especially
the Dreambook and Bravenet-guestbooks, has nice side-features.
Guestbooks
adds interactivity to your site. But they also loosens your control of the content of your
site.
Visitors could post ANYTHING to your guestbook.
Some
webmasters solve this problem by setting up a "fake" guestbook. One that is not
realtime-updated.
They use a form-mail on their
"sign-guestbook"-page.
Entries are mailed to the webmaster instead of written directly into the
"view-guestbook"-page.
If the content is acceptable, the webmaster will cut and paste it to the
"view-guestbook"-page and upload it.
Another
solution could be to sign up with a guestbook that has swear-checking.
Both Guestpage.Com and Bravenet.Com
offer an opportunity to automatic check postings for bad language/swearing before
accepting them.
There
are tons of other free guestbooks on the web.
However, none of them offer anything you can't find in the ones listed below.
Once again - our aim has been to produce a short but good list.
One of
the most popular free guestbooks on the net.
Will
let you customize your guestbooks layout completely.
Offers
multiple guestbooks. You can have one for each page on your site if you like.
Also
gives you an option to receive an email whenever someone makes an entry to your guestbook
Only
bad thing is that your guestbook-pages will show a banner-ad at the top. But then again -
even dreambooks must make a living.
All in
all - a very easy and highly flexible service.
A great alternative to the Dreambook-service.
Allows you to customize it with your own colors,
fonts, images and questions.
You can even turn on e-mail notification or
swearchecking!
There also is a user friendly guestbook wizard that
might help you build an awesome guestbook.
Finally, when signing up with Bravent you also get
access to a bunch of other resources you might want on your site.
So, if for nothing else, go see for yourself all the other free
scripts they offer you to add to your site.
A very
easy to setup guestbook.
Will
let you customize the layout.
When
signing up for a free guestbook you also receive the option to add a free form-handler and
a free visitor-link-page to your site.
Your
guestbook-pages will show a banner-ad at the top.
All in
all - a very easy solution.
Guestpage.Com
offers automatic checking for bad language. But since no computer has yet been able to
validate the content, it can be argued that checking for language reslly doesn't solve the
problem.
However it can b a step in the right direction if it is
extremely important that your site does not contain bad language - not even in the parts
that is contributed by others - and not even for short.
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