ihostGuest
Web Studio Content - iHost CoolStuff
Add a form to your site that captures visitors information and emails it to you.
A guestbook is a forum for your visitors to leave you comments, ideas, or just kudos. Your
guestbook is hosted on the iHostStudio servers, so you simply include the HTML below in
your web page and iHostStudio does the rest.

You add your guestbook to a page in your site with the HTML object from the CoolStuff
Gallery.

Below are a description of how the guestbook works along with step by step instructions
to add the guestbook to your website.

Guest Book
There are three parts to the guest book. The one you'll add to your site is the Guestbook Entry form. This enables guests to add
an entry to your guestbook. Then there is the Confirmation page that shows the guest what they entered in the form. And finally
there is the Guestbook page itself where all of the entries from all of your guests are displayed. Note that iHostStudio creates
the Confirmation page and the Guestbook pages for you automatically. Below is the Guestbook Entry form.
Once the visitor presses the Submit Message button, he is taken to the Confirmation page. iHostStudio's guestbook software
creates this page for you. It shows the guest how his entry will look in the Guestbook. This is shown below.
The third part is the Guestbook itself. This is also a page that iHostStudio creates for your site. It displays all of the entries
made in your guest book.
Adding the Guestbook to your site is a two step process. First you add an HTML object to your page and copy and paste the HTML
shown below. Second you add a link to your page to display the Guestbook itself.

To add the Guestbook to your site, follow these directions:

First add the HTML to your page:

Click on the CoolStuff tab in WebStudio.

Drag the HTML object onto a page.

Double click on the HTML object to open the HTML editor.

Copy the HTML, below, from this page and paste it into the HTML editor.

Note that you can change any of the text in Green to reflect your needs. Make sure you only change the text in green and not
anything in black. Click Save in the HTML Editor to save the HTML. You may need to resize the width of the HTML object to match
the size of the resulting form.

Second, add a link to the actual Guestbook to your MyLinks and add that link to a button or text on your page.

Click on the Links tab in Web Studio.

Go to the MyLinks list in the Links tab and Right Click on it. Choose Add Link from the resulting menu. In the resulting dialog, type
"Guestbook" and press Tab, enter "guestbk.htm" and press OK. Note, don't type the quotes, just the text between the quotes.
This adds the link to your Guestbook to MyLinks. Now you can drag and drop that link onto any button or text. The link will take
your guests directly to your Guestbook. You can drop the link on to a button or text labeled with "View My Guestbook" for example.
That's it!
Below is the HTML to add to your HTML object.
<form method="POST" action="http://www.ihoststudio.com/cgi-shl/cgishell.exe?GUESTBOOK_A">
<table width="75%" border="0">
<tr>
<td width="22%">Name:</td>
<td colspan="5">
<input type=text name=realname size=40>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="22%"> E-Mail:</td>
<td colspan="5">
<input type=text name=username size=40>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="22%">URL:</td>
<td colspan="5">
<input type=text name=url size=40>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="22%">City:</td>
<td width="19%">
<input type=text name=city size=15>
</td>
<td width="7%">State:</td>
<td width="7%">
<input type=text name=state size=2>
</td>
<td width="11%">Country: </td>
<td width="34%">
<input type=text value=USA name=country size=4>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="22%">Comments: </td>
<td colspan="5">
<textarea name=comments cols=40 rows=8></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="6">
<div align="center">
<input type=submit value="Submit Message" name="submit">
<input type=reset name="reset">
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

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