Guestbook - the simplest and most convenient way to write to the author site. Not all users have a mailbox, and those who have not always agreed to open a new window for writing the letter. Moreover, not everyone agrees to register in the forum for the two lines. No one obliges you to make a guestbook, this article is for those who already have this interactive element in your site.
A guest book should be quick - the forced registration is absolutely meaningless. Book - a special kind of epistolary genre - there is important text message, rather than the beauty of its filing and therefore would not be a mistake to attribute the epigraph or more notes in the margin. Guest can be compared with a book of complaints in the store - access to both should be easy.
Ideal guest should have the same appearance as the bulk of pages. This, incidentally, a big minus template guest books, which are provided free services and servers.
In a guest book should be required to attend some of the elements - text fields to send a message and signature of the sender. Some users are happy to fill in the fields such as the «E-mail», «Site», «City», «ICQ», «Profession». You also have the right to add these fields in the form of sending messages, while the kernel is only the first two. You are a very big mistake, if the mentioned form a separate place from the comments page. First, it violates the rule of the book fast, second, 99.9% of users visited her to send their opinions, but not for reading.
After leaving the message, the user should be without any intermediate pages (such as «Your opinion is taken into account») fall back to the guest, and has already seen your message. Some administrators do the books premoderatsiey (ie a message will appear on the site after viewing the person responsible for this). This is terribly damaging to the site - the user begins to mistrust him, and he might not come back here. Undoubtedly, the book send a user to a mailbox different notifications are also harmful.
I repeat: the main value of our heroine - the comments of users. They should look nice. All made by the guest data to be withdrawn on the page along with a message. Next to it is welcome the availability of the date and time of his departure, but anyone know the user's IP is not required. Replies administrator can look in different ways: either as well as messages of ordinary users, or as the highlight is the benefit of exercise is easy. When the number of comments has become big, they should be archived - this is very important when there is the question of speed of downloading the book. The most common method - the breakdown of a few pages with a limited number of posts for each (typically 10).
Guestbook is a very good ground for design zadumok. Some features of forms will make you sweat in the advert, but any field can be drawn form a separate icon.
But, unfortunately, the word «ideal» looks good only in the title. A guest book has several weaknesses, which appeliruet and Artemy Lebedev. Any person signing any name, can express in the guest everything. Illiterate technical execution can bring many unpleasant surprises, and the bias of administrators to the comments is the apotheosis of imperfection guestbooks. The desire to have a book is often divided on the validity of the stones - that do not know how, the server does not allow ...
One huge negative is the guest of its notorious inefficiency. Not everyone who visited the site, leave a trace in the guestbook. Sometimes when thousands visit the number of comments is calculated in units.
But the perfect guest book there is - it is a projection of a good relationship to each other user and author of this site. And that you are not in the trolley ride ...
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