Guest books for web pages

In My Humble Opinion
1

My husband wants to put a guest book on his web page.

There seem to be many places that offer this service free. If you have a guest book, what service do you use? What are the pros and cons of that service?

Has anyone actually written a guest book? Is it worth the trouble, or should we just go with a feebie? I have modest programming experience. I’m conversant with FORTRAN (stop giggling, please) and it’s possible that I could perl my way out of a well-soaked paper sack. Is this a monumental undertaking? (And please stop giggling about FORTRAN.) Any instructional books or websites you could recommend would be appreciated.

2

Lycos has a pretty good one: (http://jupiter.guestworld.tripod.lycos.com).

I’ve also programmed my own. It’s pretty simple in Perl.

Many servers won’t allow you to execute custom scripts so check that before putting too much work into it.

3

Check out the CGI Resource Index for the best guestbook scrips. The url is http://www.cgi-resources.com/

Hope it helps.

4

Thanks, Dragwyr, I found a tutorial that looks helpful at that site. Thanks also, Baraqiyal; if I get frustrated with the Perl, I’ll try Lycos.

5

My guestbook is from http://gbook.nu . The only thing I’m not extremely fond of is that recently I’ve had to go to the site in order for new entries to appear. But other than that, it’s a fantastic service.

For being free and customizable (I think I just made that up), it’s definitly worth checking out.

6

Heck, if you are using a web hosting company they may already have one for you to use. Probably just need to add one or two lines of code.

7

I use matts Guestbook script from cgi-resources.com (they have other languages there too)…

One important thing, make sure it emails you new entries, that way you can delete those nasty ones.