How to Add a Guest Book
Guest books allow visitors to your web site to leave comments and other information like e-mail addresses and names for your reference. Online guest books are easy to create and many services offer free guest books to subscribers. Customize your guest book to display appropriate comments and delete entries that violate service agreements between you and the free service.
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Things You'll Need
- Guest book Service Provider Account
- Website (with HTML editing capability)
Instructions
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Check with your website design capability or web-host to make sure you are capable of adding an html guest book to your website. Certain free or low-cost website providers do not allow you to embed html codes into your web pages unless you sign up for a paid or upgrade service.
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Type "Free Online Guest Book" into a search engine. You can decide which free guest book option is best for you and your website. Services provided by Guestbooking.com and WebsiteToolBox.com (see references) allows users to create a guest book with customizable colors, fonts and designs.
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Sign up for a free account with the guest book service provider. Agree to some terms and conditions barring profanity and commercial use, since most free guest book services are intended for personal website use.
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Customize your guest book with step-by-step instructions and pre-created templates. You can change the font of the text, color and design of the window and background. When you are finished, preview your guest book and hit "Submit" to receive an html code.
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Copy your code down and open your website editing application or software. Be sure your editing software is in html mode and paste your guestbook-generated code on the web page of your choosing.
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Preview your work to make sure your guest book looks the way you want it to and is in the correct location. Save your work and upload it to your website to make it live for public viewing.
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Tips & Warnings
Do not make any changes to the code provided to you by the guestbook service provider. Any changes to the code could result in your guest book not looking or functioning properly.
References
- Photo Credit guest book image by Georgios Kollidas from Fotolia.com
