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Guest Books
A guest book is a place where visitors to a Web site can leave messages, either for the Web site owner only, or for other visitors to read. Visitors can also enter their e-mail address, Web site address, comments, and more. This gives the Web site owner more interaction with the people who come to their site.
Web design companies usually create an online guest book as an optional feature of the Web design for an organization. The costs are included in the total cost of the Web site design. The ideal way of dealing with guest's information is to connect the guest book with a database system, so that you can use the information for audience expansion. This will add additional cost depending on the complexity of the database system design.
There are many software packages online for creating a simple, easy guest book. Basic HTML and CGI knowledge may be required if you create your own guest book. A step-by-step process can be found at the following locations:
There are already many arts organizations utilizing guest book on their Web sites. The following sites are selected examples:
- GuestWorld (http://www.Lpage.com/)
- ABCtec (http://www.abctec.com/)
- GuestPage.Com (http://www.guestpage.com/)
- eb Diner Inc. (http://www.webdiner.com/templates/guests.htm)
- Whitney Museum of American Art (http://www.echonyc.com/~whitney/WMAA/guestbk/gb.html)
- Salvatore Ventura (http://www.salventura.com/guest1.htm)
- The Children's Museum of Memphis (http://www.cmom.com/guestbook.html)
- Philharmonia Orchestra (http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/guestbook.html)
- Louisville Mandolin Orchestra (http://www.iglou.com/dba/LMO/menu.html)