Guestbook on iWeb

For my wedding website, I'd like to add a page where visitors could leave comments, greetings, ...
I don't use MobileMe to publish my website. Is there a nice solution to add a guestbook on an iweb template ?
Thank you for all your help.

Often asked and answered in this forum : [Guestbook|http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=guestbook&objID =c188&dateRange=lastyear&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001]
Here's one: [Guest Book on iWeb|http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13138963&tstart=0]
And then there's Google : http://www.google.com/search?q=Guestbook

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Guestbook in iWeb

Hi all,
I've been messing about with iWeb for about 12 months and really struggled to find a way to insert a guestbook,
Today I managed to do it!
I followed this guys recommendations: http://web.me.com/toad.hall/Demo_3/GuestBook.html
My guestbook is here: http://www.mrben.com/MrBen_BandWebsite/Guestbook.html
Now a few extra help bits.
1. Make a guestbook at http://www.ultraguest.com/
2. Make a blank page in iWeb and call it Guestbook.
3. Insert a html-snippet into your new page
4. Copy and paste this html to your snippet widnow:
+<iframe height="900px" allowTransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" style="width:600px;border:none" src="http://www.ultraguest.com/view/123456789"></iframe>+
5. Change the 123456789 number for the real number which you will find in
link code from Ultraguest, you'll find it under the 'Account' tab then 'link code'.
6. Find you css data for your iWeb page. Css data controls the style/format for your web site (so fonts, sizes, backgrounds etc...). The way I found this was a bit weird and I'm sure there is an easier way...but...open your site in a browser (firefox/explorer). Right mouse on the page and select 'View Source'. Look a piece of code that looks like this:
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen,print" href="Guestbook_files/Guestbook.css" />+
++
++
+<style type="text/css">+
7. Copy this to clipboard. Paste it on the UltraGuest tab, 'Design' > 'Edit CSS'.
8. Format your main page so it looks OK and put something like 'Please sign our guestbook'
9. That should be it.
Check out my one on http://www.mrben.com/MrBen_BandWebsite/Guestbook.html
I'm no html/web expert and this has been bugging me for ages that I couldn't get a guestbook to work. Loads of people seem to be making the same enquiry so hope this answers some questions.
Cheers
Steve

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
7. Copy this to clipboard. Paste it on the UltraGuest tab, 'Design' > 'Edit CSS'.
Making it clear that you are referring to adding those changes in your account at the UltraGuest site.
Looks good. The black text, however, is a bit difficult to read against the Darkroom background.
OT

Guestbook For iWeb?? Can you turn a Blog into one??

I need a guestbook on my website. I was wondering if there was a way to create one with iWeb? If not, is there a way to use the comment page from a blog for the guestbook? I tried it but I can't get a link in the Nav bar that goes to that one blog entry. Any ideas?

You can't add anything to inbuilt iweb nav bar - you'll have to make your own. Or add a blank page with the link to the site on it or put the link in an iframe.
<iframe src=
"http://sitename.com/"
style="width:750px; height:750px;
border-color:#990033;
border-style:solid;
border-width:1px"
scrolling="yes" >
</iframe>
You can alter the size of the frame and the colours to suit your site.

Can you make a guestbook in iweb

Does iweb have the ability to put a guestbook on your website for people to signin and comment on the site, etc.

You don't need to mess with HTML, go here for a free guestbook;
http://twoguestbook.de
Put a link on any page to send viewers to yor guestbook, see here;
http://web.mac.com/davtuck/iWeb/David-Tucker-Home/Through%20the%20Door.html
So easy and it works well.

Can I make a guestbook in iWeb?

Can I make a guesbook in iWeb? If so, how?

There are several ways. If you only want the information to be delivered to you you can create a form similar to those in this demo page: Embedding Forms.
If you want the guestbook and comments to be viewable by all who visit you site try one of the 3rd party guestbooks and add them to your webpage like the forms were added. This demo page has such a guestbook: Guestbook
OT

IWeb and guestbook

Hello to everybody,
Thanks in advance for the answers, but do you know how to link to the guestbook installed on my server, in iWeb, without iframes? I want to make a page with iWeb and integrate de guestbook in the middle of the page, but I don't want to do it with iframes.
Cri00

Is there a possibility to use the php included code of the guestbook in iWeb '08? The code is similar to <?php include('/home/..../public_html/gbook/gbinclude.php'); ?>
Thanks
Message was edited by: Cristi_B

Hint: guest{blog}book as a workaround

Need a guestbook in iWeb? There is an easy way since iWeb 1.1(.1 of course).
You have blogs. Visitors can add comments there, right? A list of comments looks very similar to a guestbook, I thought.
Aah!
Let’s make a guestbook out of the comments of a blog! All you need is a single blog with a single entry where you can invite your visitors to post entries.
Well, terms might be not quite the right, but it works!
You are invited to have a look at mine (sorry, it is not in English but German but you can find out):
http://web.mac.com/willibauer/iWeb/baeSite/gaestebuch/gaestebuch.html
willi
Powerbook G4 1.25 GHz Mac OS X (10.4)

It took me a while to figure out where to tell iWeb to allow comments.
If anyone out there hasn't figured it out, it's like this:
1) Create your blog page
2) Open the Inspector
3) Click the RSS tab
4) Make sure "Allow Comments" is checked off
Done. No need to pay for iComment.

Inserting a guestbook page in iweb

Ok...so I'm not quite sure how this works but...I was wondering if it is at all possible to make a guestbook page in iweb? It seems strange that there isnt a template for a guestbook? someone please help!!
Karlyn
macbook Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Varkgirl's suggestions will get you a much spiffier looking guestbook. But if you don't want to do any post-publishing and just want to give guests a chance to leave a comment, you can use the blog template. Make one simple entry, welcoming your guests and instructing them to click the "comment" link to leave a message.
There are two caveats to this:
1) it only works if you are publishing to .mac, as the comments feature is one of the ".mac only" features. (There are post-publishing options to get around this with another host, but then you might as well use the process Varkgirl suggested)
2) when you do a "publish all to .mac," previous comments will disappear.

Guestbook and linking to the navigation bar i Iweb

Hi
I have made a site for my dog and want to have a guestbook - so I got a free guestbook and it seem to work fine...
For now I have added a link to the frontpage of the site - but it would have been fun to have it on the navigation bare on ALL my sites. I have seen that somebody has done that but dont know a clue how to do that!
Is there somebody out there that knows how to do this????
http://web.me.com/baiaz/Adino/Velkommen.html
Morten

Create a blank internal page titled "Guestbook" (actually you can name the page whatever you want.) Then in that Guestbook page add an HTML Snippet with the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.window.location = "http://www.yourguestbook.com"; // change this to your own URL
</script>
...Once published, clicking on "Guestbook" in the navbar will immediately redirect to your external Guestbook page. (Thanks to Cyclosaurus for the code).

I've Made the Switch (from iWeb) & Lived to Tell About It.

I've gotten a lot of help and useful information from this forum over the years and I will certainly miss it. I've just completed a 2 month transition where I've migrated my site from iWeb/Mobile Me to a new site made in RapidWeaver and hosted by Host Excellence. I figured I'd write a little (or a lot) about my experience, to give some others an idea of what they've got to look forward too. Hopefully it will arm you with some things to do and look out for. While I am describing RapidWeaver here, a lot of this process will be the same no matter what new software you use. I started off being pretty happy with what I had going in iWeb and not being thrilled at all about making the switch. Now I am so glad I made the switch and I am far happier about the new site than I was with the old one. BTW: the new sites address is: http://grillinsmokin.net . Feel free to visit. I think you'll quickly notice some things you simple can't do in iWeb. This isn't a knock against iWeb. I was very happy with iWeb and had no plans to switch. Where it hasn't been developed actively for four years now, it has been left behind somewhat.
To begin at the beginning: I've had a site made with iWeb since January of 2006 called Grillin' & Smokin' that combined my love of outdoor cooking and photography. Over the years it had grown rather large, with 375 photo entry pages and 230 blog pages. The Domain file was around 1.4 GB. This was not something I ever wanted to have to recreate from scratch. However losing MobileMe as a host was taking away Value Added features like the Hit Counter, Slide Show, Blog Comments, Blog Search etc. The handwriting is on the wall for iWeb too. I might have gone on using iWeb, but between losing key features and the fact iWeb was starting to show it's age, it was time for me to move on. Just before the iCloud announcement this Spring, I began researching website building software. I looked at their features, working methodology, themes, plug-ins and extensions. I download trial versions of the software where it was available as well as some of the themes or plugins I might be using. I gotta tell you, at first I was very frustrated and upset, because I was not finding anything that had the ease of use of iWeb and looked like it was going to be able to recreate the appearance of my original site. It appeared to be a series of compromises. I'd like the features of one package but I hated the themes available for that software. Another looked promising but isn't being upgraded regularly. My biggest frustration was some of the iWeb page types just don't exist in other packages. For example the Album Pages where multiple Photo Pages can be grouped and displayed, don't have a direct equivalent in any other package I saw. As part of my discovery process I read reviews of the various packages, including head to head comparisons of some of them. I also visited their discussion forums. After doing this for 3 weeks I "settled" on RapidWeaver. It was under active development; had a thriving developer community turning out a wide variety of add ons, plug-ins and themes; had an active user community & had lots of help resources available. The web pages it produced were standards compliant and you could get nice effects without resorting to Flash. I think the biggest selling point was all of the add-ons-kind of the same advantage the iPhone has with it's App Store.
Once I bought RapidWeaver & a 3rd Party theme, I tried the demo versions of some of the plug-ins and made sample versions of my page types from iWeb in RapidWeaver. I wanted to have a process in place, before I started mass production on the site. You really do need to do some of this homework in advance to avoid unpleasant surprises. The biggest minus I'd turned up about RapidWeaver (RW from this point on) is it didn't handle big sites well at all. The equivalent of the iWeb Domain file is the RapidWeaver Sandwich file or RWSW file. Once the RWSW file reaches 100MB or so you can get crashes or hangs uploading your site. Now 100 MB doesn't sound like much particularly when I was talking about a 1.4GB iWeb Domain File for my site, but RW doesn't include the photos in the RWSW file. Still I knew I was going to have to divide my site across several RWSW files. Initially the plan was to divide it into 3 sites: The main landing pages was one RWSW file and is the site reached by the url for the site. I was going to have a second RWSW file for my blogs and a third for my photos. Ultimately I ended up dividing the photos into 3 RWSW files. These extra files are hosted on sub-domians whose name goes in front of the main domain (http://sub-domain.main-domain.com). This meant some extra setup for me with my web-host, although they made the setup for the 4 sub-domains very easy and they were free. If you have a huge site and will need to split it, you'll want to check with your prospective web host if they charge extra for hosting additional sub-domains. For small iWebs sites this is not an issue-you have one RWSW file and one web address, just like you do now. My having sub-domains also meant more work linking files together across sites. RapidWeaver has something called an Offsite Page which helped with some of this, but having to split my sites up was the biggest PITA for me about the whole process. But knowing about this going in was better than finding out at the end when I tried to upload a single massive site. If you have a small site, the setup for uploading it is as straight forward as iWeb. RW has a built in FTP uploader or you can publish to file and use an FTP client like CyberDuck.
Once I had my site organization in place and had experimented with best practices for recreating each iWeb page type in RW, it was time to begin. I've gotta tell you when I started out I was not a happy camper. I liked the iWeb way of doing things about 70 percent of the time vs 30 percent for RW. At the end of the first week I told myself I have to move on and give up on the past. I was no longer going to be using iWeb and the sooner I embraced the RW way of doing things, the better off I'd be. At this early point it was still hard to see down the road to the end results. No matter what new package you buy, you should try to go with the flow and learn a new way of working. You'll be happier and less frustrated in the end. In my case after having gone through the entire process now, I've ended up changing my opinion. Now that I've gone through the entire process, I like the RapidWeaver way of doing things about 95 percent of the time and 5% for iWeb. That 5 percent is mostly the large site issue I've described. As I began working I was able to reuse much of the text from my iWeb blog in RW. I did have to paste it in as unformatted and reformat it in RW. My pictures were well organized in Aperture which also helped speed the process. One of the things I did is automate some of the tedious repetitious tasks. I created Quickeys macros to do things for me when ever possible. For example I could go to a particular photo page in iWeb and select the first caption. I would then trigger a macro that asked how many captions are on this page. It would then select the caption in iWeb, copy it, switch to RW and paste it in place and repeat XX times. If you know Quickeys or Applescript (I am guessing) there are plenty of opportunities to put it to good use.
RW present a different way of working than you are used to in iWeb and you'll just need to get used to it. What I am describing here would be true of any of the other packages I looked at too. First off it isn't WYSIWYG while you are editing. You are working with fairly basic looking text with few clues as to what the real page looks like. You switch to a preview mode to see what the page looks like in a browser. At first blush iWeb seems to win here. But what I soon realized is RW allows you to mix regular text and pictures together with html snippets right in the same text box. This makes adding counters or badges easy. Plus you can use HTML formatting for things like Titles occurring through your page. Instead of increasing the font size, making the text bold and changing its color, you can simply say this is Heading style 2 or 5 and this happens automatically per the predefined style. Better yet if you change a style everything on that one page or the entire site (your choice) inherits that change. So by working in a non-WYSIWYG mode you gain some long term. advantages over how iWeb works. The same is true with positioning. In iWeb it is fast and easy to place things on a page right down to the pixel. RW just doesn't give you that type of precision and next to splitting my site, layout was my biggest frustration with RW. At least to start. But there is a good reason for this "lack of precision" that may not be apparent until you view the site in a browser. When iWeb came out, you really didn't zoom your browser. iWeb uses Absolute Positioning where it uses anchored boxes for everything, whereas RW uses Relative Positioning. Objects with anchored text or picture boxes like iWeb start having problems if you zoom in or out more than one step. Text starts over flowing other text because the text boxes are anchored by one point. Pages just start looking scary if you try to zoom in or out too much. RW is looking at items relative positions and their relationships with one another. So initially you aren't placing the objects in the same way, it is more like eyeballing things in a way. But when viewed in a web browser you can zoom in or out to your heart's content. So what seems at first like a big disadvantage at first for RW, is actually a HUGE advantage.
This is why you need to go with the flow and try to embrace the new way of working. I mentioned earlier that I wasn't able to find a page type that was equivalent to the iWeb album page. I was able to use a very flexible plug-in for RW called stacks, which allows you to create various single and multi-column or multi-row layouts using empty stacks. You then populate the empty stacks with content, pictures text etc. These pages were not like iWeb albums where you nest the Photo Album Pages in the Album page and they create a skimmable preview and an automatic link to the album. Once I actually started making these new "Album" Pages in RW I realized I was gaining as much or more than I was loosing. The skimmable preview pictures was eyecandy I could live without. Nice touch, not essential. I never liked the way the preview picture shown on the Album page was the first photo in the Photo album. You couldn't change this. Now that I am placing my own photo on the Album page, I could use any picture and make it any size I wanted too. In iWeb the Album Caption was the name of the Photo Page. If this name was too long the caption didn't go to a second line, it got cut off. Any link in RW can have a description added to the link which is what you see in the yellow box when you hover your mouse over the item being linked. I used to hide text boxes links under the pictures on the Albums page for SEO and navigation help. So yes now I have to manually link the Album picture to the Photo Page, but I am no longer creating a hidden text box with a link that I have to remember to move when I add pages to the album. So once again my first impression was wrong. Advantage RW.
Another advantage to RW is any page type can have a sidebar. You can easily add favicons and site logos. You can easily add metadata to any page and customized the names of the path to your pages. The Themes can be more powerful and customizable too. About one week into the process I was begining to really go with the flow and see this new way of working had far more advantages for me than disadvantages.
By the time I finished my new RW site, my iWeb site was looking tired and dated. My biggest and most pleasant surprises were saved until the end. Any kind of SEO was a PITA with iWeb. You had to embed snippets on each page with a code from HaloScan or Google Analytics. Problem was, iWeb erased any such HTML code while you were uploading. So you then had to use a regular expression in the text box ("HaloScan goes here"), upload your site and replace the regular expression with the actual code using a 3rd party tool. Oh and don't do that on any blog page where you are using the built in Apple commenting system because the comments will disappear. I also had problems where the new comment badge would not show up for weeks or months after a comment was made. It was getting so the things I had to do AFTER I uploaded my site to MobileMe were taking longer than uploading the site. Once the site was recreated, it was time to add blog comments, a guestbook, a contact form, Google Analytics, and publish a site map. In my iWeb-influenced mind, I was saving the fussy PITA things for last. I was dead wrong. Unlike what you go through with iWeb, it couldn't have been been easier in RW:
-Blog Comments: Set up an account with the provider. Then I had to go into the page setup in RW for my blog page and click on a popup menu of comment providers & select Discus. If your provider isn't listed you paste some HTML code from the provider into a dialogue box provided by RW for the blog page. In my case it was simpler, just set Discus in the popup menu. Now instead of the iWeb badge showing me new posts (and only when it was in the mood), I now get an email.
-Google Analytics: Set up an account with Google. Go to the Stats area in the RW side bar, click on Configure, paste in your code from Google and you are good to go. You can monitor your Google analytics stats right from within RapidWeaver. (Also works this way for GoSquared Live Stats).
-Guestbook: Same as iWeb. You add a page with an HTML snippet from your Guestbook provider in an iFrame.
-Contact Form: This is a RW page type which masks your email address from the spambots by transferring the information to an invisible and inaccessible page within your site. This page then emails you the information.
-Full Site Search: This doesn't exist in iWeb. You can search your blogs right now, but this is one of the features you lose when MobileMe shuts down. By adding an inexpensive Plug in called RapidSearch Pro I enable full site search. You set up a MySQL server for your site. Host Excellence walked me through the 4-Step Process via a well written Help File. You then control what pages are indexed via your sitemap.xml file. You let RapidSearch Pro index your site and you are good to go.
-SiteMap: There is a simple SiteMap generation feature built into RW 5. There are third party tools for doing this for iWeb. I purchased an inexpensive RW plug in called SiteMap plus that not only generates the sitemap.xml file, it allows you to customize what pages get searched and at what frequency. This ties into what is searched via RapidSearch Pro. This plug-in also generates a visible and customizable sitemap page to help your site's users find their way around. Another bonus of being hosted off Mobile Me is when I went to add my sites to my Google account they had already been indexed. It seemed like they never crawled MobileMe unless you told them you wanted them to look at your site.
Link Checking: This doesn't exist in iWeb. I bought another inexpensive plug-in called Link Inspector for RW. It checks all of your internal and external links and generates a report showing the status of all links. This was just what the doctor ordered for my large site. I will run it periodically to make sure external links are still working and that I haven't broken any internal links.
My site was pretty much wrapped up on Monday August 8th. I just had to add in Blog Comments, Google Analytics, the Guestbook, Full Site Search and the Site Map. I figured I would go public on Tuesday or Wednesday. To my great pleasure these 5 items took all of 2 hours to get set up and working. This was a nice touch after 2 months of hard work.
So there you have it. This is the process I went through converting my site over to RapidWeaver. Your mileage may vary. I am not pushing RapidWeaver for everyone. You have to find what program is the right fit for you. You may find staying with iWeb on a new host is the right fit for you. You need to decide if you can live with the features you lose once you aren't hosted on Mobile Me. For me there was great pain, but in the end there was a lot of gain too. I do like my new site and I feel it will serve me well for years to come. Good luck to all of you in whatever path you choose. Lastly thanks one last time to the helpful folks around here
Jim
http://grillinsmokin.net
Message was edited by: Jim Mahoney

Thanks Roddy. I agree with your take on some of the other software you mentioned, at least from the perspective of having dabbled with demo versions of some of the others. I will add that with Sandvox I felt a little nervous about it. Kind of almost like the software was a "hobby" effort a la the first gen Apple TV.
I also agree with some of your points regarding RapidWeaver. But now that I've built my rather large (for a hobbyist site) website with it I will have to respectfully disagree about it being at the same level as iWeb, or as you put it: a sideways move. While iWeb can be made to do things it was never originally meant to do, there are many places it simply can't go that RapidWeaver can. I was often hitting the limits of what you could do in iWeb, whereas with RapidWeaver, with one exception, I didn't feel like I was running up against any limits yet. The exception is it's lack of ability to handle large sites well. That was almost the deal breaker for me. I find it unexplainable that a software package with all kinds of add-ons helping you make more ambitious sites, can't handle those same sites in a single file. This was almost a deal-breaker for me. For folks who have small to medium sized iWeb sites this isn't a concern. There are also ways to warehouse images on the server to keep file size down, but this gets more complex than many folks coming from iWeb would want to do. Me splitting my site up the way I did was more work than I wanted to do.I almost bagged the whole thing and was close to just taking the old site down.
Now if we were to fantasize for a minute I can think of a way where I could also say iWeb to RapiWeaver is a sideways move: While I don't think iWeb '09 is the equal to RapidWeaver 5, I'd bet that iWeb 11 or the oft rumored iWeb Pro might have been. I kept hoping that Apple would keep pushing the limits of what iWeb could do and add in some missing features and head down the HTML 5 road.
I will conditionally agree on your saying that the shopping list for RapidWeaver can be substantial. I will qualify that by saying: Depending on what you are doing with it, your shopping list for RapidWeaver can be substantial. With one exception, I do think the base package of RapidWeaver is fairly priced. I think the basic Stacks functionality and a few basic stacks should be part of RapidWeaver. The more esoteric stacks can be pay as you go. When iLife 11 was announced without a an update to iWeb, I did some preliminary pricing and I was rather discouraged at the total. This spring I got more serious about things and repriced RapidWeaver and add-ons. After trying out various themes and plug-ins, I was able to sharpen my pencil and reduce the cost of entry considerably. One of the things that helped is the theme I bought had a couple features built into it. It had a nice lightbox type slideshow for photo pages and animated banners/headers capabilities built in. This saved me the expense of several additional plug-ins. Also while I have a blog, I don't consider myself a blogger. I was able to use the built in blog page and I don't feel limited by it at all. Some of the other ad-ons I bought: such as the link checker, site wide search and a more sophisticated sitemap generator were items I added because I could tell I would want to keep the site going long term. Those 3 plug-ins did that a a low price. I didn't think they needed to be built in.
But everyone's mileage may vary. RapidWeaver or any other web design program isn't right for every iWeb user. It all depends on personal needs, abilities and budgets. I'm just glad I can get back to posting to the site and not recreating it.
Jim

Can I add a comments to my iWeb page

I have a website that I would like to invite visitors to sign a guest book or add comments ... can that be done?

See this page for adding comments...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Comments-Password-Protect.html
... and this one for form services which willl also provide a guestbook...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Website-Email-Marketing/Form-Service.html

How can I integrate a "fill in your name form" on my iWeb site ?

Hello,
I am looking for a contact page in the iweb. A contact sheet where I can have my clients fill in theirs name,adress and e-mail adress and leave a comment. Is there one ? or how can I easily create one ?
Please let me know ,
friendly yours
gunilla in paris
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.10)

http://www.varkgirl.com/Varkgirl/Add%20forms.html
if you want the info emailed to you
or
http://www.varkgirl.com/Varkgirl/Popup%20Guest%20Book.html
if you want it to show up like a guestbook
or
http://js-kit.com/comments/
for a different option that shows up directly on the page
You can add just about any type of html code, widget, or add-on to your iWeb site if you are willing to do a little post-publish editing.
Basic Instructions are here:
http://iweb.varkgirl.com
(Click on the first "tip" link in the list)
Disclaimer: My website contains various ads, so if you click them while visiting my site, I will receive financial compensation, which I use for materials for my classroom.

Need help embedding guestbook, stat counters, commentable blog

Hello, I am looking for a safe and easy way to add a few things to a webpage I am building for a non-profit.
-A guestbook which will allow users to note their presence, ideally would like to include a way to send their personal information (such as mailing address or email), but would not like this info published for privacy reasons. Does this sound like creating a login for some, "guest" for others not wanting to go through the trouble? How do I do this?
I do not know html, but am willing to learn. I am leary of using free software to create a form because I do not want the information in other people's hands (would like to respect the privacy of individuals). Is there any way to create a database/buttons and insert into the snippet? I'm sure it's not that easy, but there must be an easier way using iWeb. Index this information, now I know I'm asking for too much!
-Stats counter to get an idea on traffic.
-Also, tips on how to increase traffic, searchability and so forth.
-A Blog in which guests may submit their own information if desired.
I do not use MobileMe (can't afford it, too busy working for free
Thank you for any help : )

Hello all, thanks for your help so far.
I've gone with a Wufoo form and have one of them sent to email. The other, on the other hand, I would like to be posted. I've looked at the integration sites they are compatible with (all which charge $). Is there any way to post the results via rss that is not one of there guys? I just would like, instead of an email, post it to site..Is this so complicated? OK, yes I know. I did notice that one of the partners puts the information into a forum, which seems like a pretty cool idea, too.
The baseline is: I would like visitors to be able to write their own information onto the site. However it gets there. Blogs, comments, forums.
And again, I do not use MobileMe. If Apple were to offer it to us as a donation (non-profit then we'd be happy to let everyone know that. Until then, we have to be as free as can be.

Embedding a Guest Book onto an iWeb Page?

I've seen a few people using Guest Map with it in a frame on their iWeb site. I'd like to do the same thing but with my Guest Book. Is it possible and does anyone know how?

Yes, you can do this:
Add a textbox to the page you want it on. I think in your case, it will have to be 600 px wide. Put some unique text into the page, eg GUESTBOOKCODE. Publish. Go to the html page, open it in textedit. Replace GUESTBOOKCODE with this:

(Leave out the  from the start and end of the above text).
Save the file. Open it to test. Hopefully it should now open within the page.
There is an article on my site about integrating a guestmap - the principles outlined there apply in this case.
Michael
A Trusty Quicksilver G4 Dual 1GHz www.rowan-cottage.co.uk
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Email newsletter manager in iWeb?

Does anyone know of a way to integrate an email newsletter manager into iWeb? I'd like one that is free, if possible. I've found phplist, which a friend uses, but I don't even know which version to download. It looks pretty intimidating. My friend paid someone to put it in her site, but I don't have $400 which is what he would charge me. He said it would work on a Mac.
Here is the link to phplist:
http://www.phplist.com/download
Once I've downloaded it, how do I integrate something like that into iWeb?
I realize that this is a complicated question. I will appreciate any guidance you can give me. Thanks!
Satya

Hi,
no problem, I'm still here
1. Register to Bravenet
2. Register for the MailingList
3. Under Web Tools => Registered Web Tools, click on mailing list
4. Under utilities you have "Copy-paste code" click and then copy the code
5. Go to iWeb and paste the code into an html snippet on any page you'd like to have it to appear. (Go to the end of the page post for html in iWeb '06). As soon as you click apply you will see the field.
See how it looks here:
http://alyeska.altervista.org/test/Welcome/Blank_3.html
(just a website for testing so it will not stay on server for ever)
Now people can subscribe to your newsletter.
For sending Newsletters go to your Bravenet account and select "Send plain text" or "Build/send HTML" where you can play around and customize your newsletter for having it to show how you want.
On your Bravenet account you will be able to see who joined your mailinglist and so on.
PS: you don't have to leave your hosting to get a counter on your website... You can use Bravenet's counter or better have a look at this:
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_Statcounter.html
(this page will soon be updated with a freeware alternative to iComment you can find here http://guimkie.com/projects/iwebexpander )
Bravenet offers a lot of useful other stuff like guestbooks, polls, and so on (the only downside is that they include Ads on their free stuff). I actually don't use anything of Bravenet myself but I used to some time ago.
Regards and welcome back from traveling around the world, hope you enjoyed the journey
Cédric
PPS: I just noticed this is posted to iWeb '06 so there are no HTML snippets in there. Here's a freeware app do add html in iWeb '06 http://guimkie.com/projects/iweb/basic-html-editing-with-iweb/

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