14 replies to this topic

[Emanuele]

Do you guys know where I can find a good guestbook for my website?
What are the pross and cons of guestbooks? I don`t see a lot of them around...

Thanks.
Emanuele

[NJ Night Sky]

I don't use one myself but have in the past not sure where to get a good one.

[Chris Graham]

Dont use the one on Freeservers.com people abuse it!

[Emanuele]

Thanks Jim...awesome website you have there! WOW!!!
Its written in PHP though, correct?

Thanks Chris...I am actually thinking if I should even have one though, or a simple feedback form would be enough. Its kinda cool to have people leave HI messages on the site though...

[iceman]

I don't think people would use guestbooks too much.. i contemplated one for my site initially but decided not to.

A few people suggested that I should create a forum, which I did end up doing (IceInSpace Forums <-- cheap plug! Come sign up! ) because there is literally only about 1 other community site/forum in Australia.. so I created the forums to try and encourage more local aussies to post and build a local community.

Unless you're offering something niche, I doubt you'll steal much business away from CN or the many other forums in the US.

If you haven't got your own database on your site, then you'll have to use some freeware guestbook system where the data is stored elsewhere.. so you might end up with popups, ads, banners or whatever else..

It's really up to you.

[Emanuele]

Thanks Mike!

I visited your website a lot, although it is very complicated to me! I could never build something like that.
A forum would be nice to have but very very few people would come in and talk: I'm always here anyway...

So I guess I should go with a simple feedback form. ya?

Emanuele

[iceman]

Sounds good to me!

[Emanuele]

Thanks for the input Mike!

[NJ Night Sky]

Thanks Jim...awesome website you have there! WOW!!!
Its written in PHP though, correct?

Yes PHPNuke and thanks. I just started with the PHP version of the site in May it was html before that.

[Chris Graham]

I had to remove my one coz it was getting alot of bad links posted on it.

[Emanuele]

yeah I can understand that...

[FJA]

On my other website (maritime photography) I have a guestbook, but while I do get a lot of traffic, I don't get a lot of people signing the guestbook.

One of the downsides of having a guestbook is that it is open to abuse - people leaving stupid and/or offensive comments or spamming it, etc.

[Chris Graham]

Yeh thats why i had to take mine off

[FJA]

I just clear out the rubbish, and then report offenders to their ISPs - I get the IP numbers recorded - in cases of spam or really offensive stuff.

[FJA]

I just clear out the rubbish, and then report offenders to their ISPs - I get the IP numbers recorded - in cases of spam or really offensive stuff.