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 personally recommend www.alxnet.com. You can find their guestbook services at http://www.alxnet.com/services/guestbook/, and this guide will focus on using one of these polls with your ZyWeb account.

Visit http://www.alxnet.com/services/guestbook/, and click on the "Free Sign Up Now" button. You will now be taken to a sign-up procedure for the Alxnet services. Click on the Next button, and then choose the relevent New Customer option (Personal or Business). 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.

Once you have received your account information, visit https://toolmanager.alxnet.com/ and login with the details provided. This will take you to the following screen:

Click on the "New" button for the Guestbook. This will bring up a new screen where you will recieve some information on Alxnet's polls, and be asked to 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, as displayed below:

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. All of these features are very easy to utilise, but if you do run into trouble, then Alxnet's support team will be on hand to supply you with as much assistance as you require. 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 ZyWeb filestore and click on the page you would like to place it on.
 
When you are in the page editor, click on an item near to where you wish to place the poll, and then choose HTML Object from the Insert New menu and choose either "Above" or "Below". This will place the HTML block in ready for you to insert the code; paste it into here, then click OK, and then click on the Finish button. As usual you will be given the prompts to save your work - click Save and Publish for the changes to take effect, and your Guestbook will be live.