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TheFreeSite.com: Free Guestbook Services
If you have a Web site, you should really consider adding a guestbook. Guestbooks let your site's visitors leave comments and remarks. You can see from where and when people are looking at your page and also get valuable feedback. Guestbooks are one of the easiest ways to add interactivity to your site.
Below are free services that will create and host your guestbook for you. In many cases, it's very easy to set up a guestbook with one of these services----you basically just fill out a form and you're up and running. For more Webmaster freebies, go here.
Please send us E-mail if you're aware of any similar free resources that we haven't listed below, or if you find dead or expired links.
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 UltraGuest
A handy free ad-supported service, UltraGuest lets you easily set up a custom guestbook on your site. The service has many helpful features, including unlimited entries, smilies, stats, spam protection and more.
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AnvilBook.com
Here, you can sign up for a free guestbook for your Web site. AnvilBook.com guestbooks are easy to use and offer lots of features including time zone and date formatting and customizable body background, link and text color. You can also choose your own guestbook questions and edit and delete guestbook entries.
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 FreeGuestBooks.org
This is a good place to go if you're looking for a free guestbook for your site. FreeGuestBooks.org offers remotely hosted guestbooks that are highly customizable. The service offers nice features such as smilies, user authentication, IP banning and a WYSIWYG editor.
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GuestbookGiant.com
Need a guestbook for your site? This easy-to-use service lets you create a custom, reliable guestbook for your visitors.
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WebSiteGoodies Guestbooks
Click on the "Tools" link near the top of the page to access WebSiteGoodies' free guestbook service. Here, you can easily set up a guestbook that offers lots of features and can be customized to match your site.
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Guest Gear
(Formerly known as GuestWorld). A part of the Lycos empire, Guest Gear is far the largest free guestbook server, with over 2 million users. Just sign up and they'll E-mail the coding to cut & paste onto your page and you're ready to go. Guest Gear has added a number of nifty new features to their service, such as visitors' stats and a form that lets you automatically E-mail everyone who's signed your guestbook. There's also an extensive control panel that offers many features, such as message filtering, profanity checking, etc. Besides English, Guest Gear is also offered in German, Italian and Swedish.- A normally reliable service, Guest Gear has been plagued by outages, sometimes lasting several hours, from time to time over the past few months.
- Note: you're limited to 250 entries in your guestbook here. If you exceed that limit, older entries will be deleted (although you can save your entries as a database file to your hard drive at any time).
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 Web Diner Guestbook Templates
Add some style to your site's guestbook with the cool templates offered here. Lots of neat designs. Usage requires a linkback. Their guestbooks require a mailto: form to receive responses from your visitors. Go here for information on mailto: forms.
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Dreambook Guestbook
This free service lets you completely customize your guestbook to match your site. In normal editing mode, you can select from a variety of templates. If you switch into advanced mode, you can edit the HTML directly to make your own custom forms. You decide what fields appear in your guestbook, and how they are arranged. You can even ask your visitors questions and create complex questionaires. Visitors have reported tech problems lately, such as images appearing as broken links on guestbook entries. Tech support is difficult to get here, our visitors report.
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 TheGuestbook.com
(TheGuestbook.com ended its free service on Oct. 15, 2003). This guestbook service offers many features and is highly configurable. View an example here.
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