Add a guestbook to your website
Guestbooks can allow your users to add comments
to your website, and leave messages for you.
On these guestbooks they can communicate
with other readers of your website as well,
and you will also be able to leave comments
for your readers here. Guestbooks can be
a fun addition to your website, and pretty
much work with every topic possible. Whatever
your reason for adding a guestbook, there
are several free services that you can use,
but we recommend www.alxnet.com. This guide will focus on using one of these
polls with your 350pages.
STEP 1:
Visit www.alxnet.com/services/guestbook/, and click on the "Free Sign Up Now"
button. Click on the Next button, and you
will be taken to a name and address form
which you should fill in accordingly. After
this you will be given your login information
and will have to choose a password and secret
question (just in case you ever need to retrieve
a lost password). Complete the signup by
clicking on the Continue button. You will
be sent two e-mails; one as a confirmation
of your signup, and another confirming your
username details.
STEP 2:
Once you have received your account information,
visit toolmanager.alxnet.com and login with the details provided.
Click on the "New" button for the
Guestbook and enter a tool name. This name
only serves as a description for managing
your facilities, and once you have submitted
this, it will appear on your InterActives
screen.
Click on the edit button to begin editing
the Guestbook. There are a number of features
and customization options that you can change
in order to streamline your Guestbook to
the exact way you want it. Once you have
crafted your Guestbook to your chosen specification,
click on the HTML-Code button. This will
present you with a block of HTML under the
'Guestbook Address' heading that
you can fit into your site where you like
to present the poll. Copy the HTML code,
and then log into your 350pages and edit
the page you would like to place it on.
STEP 3:
When you are in the page editor, hover your
pointer over an item near to where you wish
to place the poll, and then click on the
Plus button to insert a new object. Choose
paragraph, and then click either above or
below. The paragraph editor will appear,
and from there click on the HTML tab. Replace
the default text with the HTML code, then
click OK, and then click on the tick under
Page Controls and save your page as usual.
Your Guestbook will now be live.