One popular feature that is recommended to add to your web site is a user guestbook. Visitors who come to the site can leave a short message without having to sign up for an account. This is good to keep a log of user comments and a history of visitors in a public format. Guestbooks for websites work in the same manner as the ones used at weddings, parties, museums, galleries, and hotels. If your site includes a user profile section, you can include guestbook functionality on every user page for social networking communications. Touch and Click offers a number of scripts for implementing guestbook features on a web site, and will set up a section dedicated to this on any existing site upon request. Give your visitors a voice, and let them make comments on site changes, new designs, issues, events, or special promotions. Guestbooks are particularly effective for gallery sites, where users can log reactions to subject matter like art work, photography, and online multimedia installations.
Touch and Click uses a guestbook software script that we have custom coded for our clients’ websites. Other popular guestbook scripts include Gbook, Viper Guestbook, Ardguest, Chipmunk Guestbook, DB Guestbook, Golden Guestbook, Signkorn, and PHP Smart Guestbook. Most of these scripts use a mySQL database to manage and save user comments. Some allow html tags, track users IP addresses, and filter spam and bad language automatically. You can decide which features you would like to include in your online guestbook, and our designers will custom code the application to fit your needs. Keeping guestbook entries spam free is important to maintain a professional site or online exhibition, and we include guestbook monitoring as part of our monthly website management packages. On request, we can also ban certain IP addresses that have a history of spam posts to provide for a more secure and automated environment.
Guestbooks are a popular feature on hotel and travel websites, as they allow users to log comments after visiting about the service, facilities, and quality of the establishment. Art galleries use guestbooks to list visitors and chart reactions and comments. High profile event web sites use guestbooks as any easy way to display user attendance lists. Wedding websites, anniversary parties, baby showers, and other family gathering websites are also good examples of where guestbooks can be effective and interesting. Political websites use guestbooks to chart public opinion to issues and current events online. Whatever the goal or user community, Touch and Click can customize the online guestbook to provide a unique way for visitors to log their messages to your site.
For clients with websites coded in Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, or other popular CMS systems, we offer an easy way to add guestbook functionality to your site through modules. Many people prefer to include guestbook functionality on all user profile pages, in association with private message and email contact forms to allow for a quick way to post and display comments on social networking sites. If you are looking to build guestbook functionality on an existing social networking site, please contact us for more information about this feature. Guestbooks can also be used alongside chat rooms or shout boxes to increase the ability of users to communicate on a website in real time.
For more information about guestbook functionality or to request a quote to add it to your website, please contact a Touch and Click customer service representative.
