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Peter
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Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/10/2004 15:33:40
I have had a few problems with my frontpage guestbook on my www.edinphoto.org.uk web site, so I have removed it from the site and hope to add a different guestbook instead - one that does not rely on FP Extensions.
I am looking for a guestbook that does not include adverts. I would be happy to download code free from the net, or else to pay for a guest book.
Are there any guestbooks that are widely used, simple to add to a site, and reliable?
- Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/10/2004 15:50:57
There are a number of them out there. Bravenet.com offers some real nice site features. They have a free guestbook with ads, but you can pay monthly for one without. Take a look.
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Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/11/2004 13:17:41
Thanks for the suggestions, bnavis and bobby.
I'll have a look at that site.
With so much choice, it is good to get a little advice, rather than risk spending a lot of time experimenting with a few guestbooks that I have found at random through searching the internet.
- Peter
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birminghambands
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/13/2004 5:29:33
I suggest bravenet.com too - i find it a lot better and easier to use than a lot of other out there. Can pretty much design it yourself, too
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Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/20/2004 9:13:22
Thanks for your Bravenet advece, bnavis and rachel
1. I have had a look at the Bravenet site and would like to try out their guestbook. I tried to sign up as a Bravenet Member 2 days ago and again today and have not yet received a password from them. I have tried submitting 'lost password' on their site but I get the response that they have not yet registered my email address.
Should I just be patient and wait for a few days and hope to receive a password from Bravenet, or do you have any better advice? (I would ask Bravenet what has happened to my registration with them,, but cannot find any way of asking them questions without submitting a password!)
2. Do you know where I can find the monthly cost for the professional guestbook from Bravenet? I have not found any prices on the Bravenet site yet.
3. Can you give me the web address of a site that uses a Bravenet guest book, so that I can see it working on a live site - perhaps one of your own sites. I would be happy to look at whatever site you send to me and to add a comment about the site in its guestbook.
Thanks:
- Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/20/2004 9:31:29
Be patient with Bravenet as they are WONDERFUL!
Or re-submit using different details.
You will become addicted to all they offer (calendars, counters, forums, e-cards, live person, etc.!
I recommend Bravenet to everyone!
Regards,
Jillian
http://www.JillianCrider.com
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champagneharley
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/20/2004 9:34:45
Most things on Bravenet are free, including the guest book.
I am sorry but I'm revamping my site. I currently have a boardhost 'message board' but will be putting in a bravenet.
I use Bravenet on my site
http://www.JillianCrider.com
for notifications to people who want a 'newsletter', and my site counter(s).
I use Bravenet calendar on my teaching/exhibition site - it is WONDERFUL
http://www.ArtByTheDozen.com
I am revamping, so please excuse my mess!
Regards,
Jillian
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/20/2004 9:36:11
Your email from Bravenet might be in your 'junkmail' folder. I've had that happen before!
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Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/22/2004 19:27:26
Thanks for the advice champagneharley.
1. I am still trying to sign up with Bravenet. I have now tried to sign up under my own name (twice) and under a different name and email address (once) but got no response (telling me the username and password to use) for any of these. I have checked in my normal mail and in my junk mail. And Bravenet still tells me that it does not have my email address on its records when I submit 'lost password'.
2. I had a look at the http://www.JillianCrider.com web site to see how you were using Bravenet. Your Bravenet-based newsletter notification form seems very clear, but what I really wanted to see was a guestbook with several entries in it that I could browse and add a message to. I see from the Bravenet description that they appear to hold the guestbook comments on their own server, so I'm not sure how fully a Bravenet guestbook would be integrated into my own site. e.g. If somebody clicked on 'guestbook' in my site and wanted to read the comments posted by others, would there be a delay while they left my site and were taken to guestbook elsewhere, and would they be easily able to return?
3. If I still can't get through to Bravenet in the next couple of days to try out their guestbook and to discover how much their professional version (without the pop-ups) costs, I think I'll have a look at a few other web sites until I find a guest book that I like then ask them where they got it from.
- Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/22/2004 21:12:53
Stick with Bravenet, you must be doing something wrong. Maybe the username you are inputting is already taken?
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/22/2004 21:52:45
Thanks aaronwiles
You've solved it!
I tried a different user name and got the message back from Bravenet within two minutes!
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 11/23/2004 7:34:20
The upgrade to Professional is $49. for the year. If you purchase it for the year, they give you 2 months free.. That will remove the ADs at the top. To remove the "powered by Bravenet" in the footer, that'll cost you ANOTHER $49.
I've integrated the Prof. Guestbook on my site using "Inline Frames" with an additional link for those that don't suppor inline frames. This way, I've been able to keep the "look and feel" of my site while keeping folks at the site and not to a seperate page.
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ORIGINAL: Peter
............. to try out their guestbook and to discover how much their professional version (without the pop-ups) costs, I think I'll have a look at a few other web sites until I find a guest book that I like then ask them where they got it from.
- Peter
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Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 12/5/2004 19:05:48
Getting closer with Bravenet GuestBook - I hope!
I have now been given the code to add to my site to create a Bravenet GuestBook, but have had problems in getting it to work. I'm sure there must be a simple solution.
I copied and pasted the code into the 'HTML view' of my site, but when I look at the site in normal view or when I publish the site it just displays the code rather than the Bravenet GuestBook button.
I cannot find any help on Bravenet for pasting code using FrontPage 2002, and when I emailed Bravenet, they told me that they have not not yet fully tested 'cut and paste' for FrontPage 2002.
Can anybody have a look at the HTML view of the page into which I copied the bravenet code, and suggest what I should do to the code to make it work? The page is at:
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/a/guest_book_test2.htm
Thank you.
- Peter
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Larry M.
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 12/5/2004 20:34:54
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Can anybody have a look at the HTML view of the page into which I copied the bravenet code, and suggest what I should do to the code to make it work?
Peter,
It will work doing it this way: Insert >>Web Component >>Advanced Controls >> HTML >> Paste (Bravenet Code) >>Save >>Publish.
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Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 12/5/2004 21:23:49
Hi:
1. Thanks Larry and Spooky for your advice from Carolina and Middle Earth. That worked! I now have a page on my site with the Bravenet GuestBook buttons. If you want to see what it looks like, so far, you'll find it on page:
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/a/guest_book_test3.htm
2. It's now 2.15am in Edinburgh, so I'll get some sleep before deciding if and how I might customise the GuestBook. and make proper links to it from my site.
Thanks again. I appreciate the clear advice received from OutFront.
- Peter
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Larry M.
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 12/5/2004 21:57:32
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Thanks again. I appreciate the clear advice received from OutFront
Peter,
Glad to help. That's what OutFront is all about.
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Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 1/2/2005 21:45:15
SUCCESS!!
It has taken me a while to find the time to complete the installation of the Bravenet Guestbook for my www.edinphoto.org.uk web site, but I finished the task a couple of days ago, and it is all working very well.
After receiving the advice from the OutFront forum, everything went smoothly. The Guestbook seems easy for others to use and easy for me to manage. The 'look and feel' changes available for setting up the Guestbook worked well.
So I would have no hesitation in recommending the Bravenet Guestbook to others.
- Peter
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RE: Can you recommend a guestbook for my site? - 1/3/2005 15:49:06
Look at http://scripts.ocean12tech.com/
They have a nice ASP free guestbook script. It is easy to install and configure.
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