When creating your site, we want to have feedback from visitors, to learn their views, wishes. Of course, links to e-mail is not enough: not just open the mail program to write you a letter. Therefore, we should think of anything more convenient for visitors to easily gesture he could express his insane delight or discontent. That's something we begin to think about to make a guestbook.
Some beginners saytostroiteli naive to believe that the creation of guest books quite some minimal knowledge of html, ability to create forms. This is not the case. All are much more difficult. Suppose we have here is a form:
Do not try to press the button and put the cursor on the fields, this is a picture:)
So, we've got some form. The visitor fills in its fields, and clicks the OK button. Miracles do not happen, a new record in the guest book itself is not added when you click the OK button in the action will not enter a special program, a script written in any programming language (Php, Perl, Asp, or drrugoy). The script handles the request in the Guest added a new record.
"But ..." - The reader will notice - I noticed on many home pages of guest books, if everything is difficult, as you say, how can people not versed in programming, manage to install a guestbook on your page? "
There is a special free services that offer guest books (eg, www.guestbook.ru). You need only to register there, and all you have. What you should know when choosing the service: Some services do not give you the opportunity to customize the appearance of a guest book for registration of your site, and some projects that you can, while you adjust to a relative knowledge of html. Also, if the projects do not hide the list of its users, write a letter a couple of them, find out whether they are satisfied, there is always available to guest books, or not (because your guest book will be located at the site of the company providing it).
There are also another option. If your hoster (the one who gives you a place in the page) gives you vozmozhnot use CGI (you can learn about this in Help section on the website hosting), you can find the script guest book, and have to install it on your site. I would recommend that you script guestbook Stanislaw Zharkova, because it is quite easy to configure (again, enough knowledge of html), if you something is not clear, then clear instructions supplied on the installation and configuration. If the script you recommended me for some reason does not satisfy, then look for another (for example, woweb.ru).
On the guest books talked. Now turn to the forums.
A terrible story in the beginning of the article, the main actor, which is the script, true to the Forum (for the chat, too). This means that if you want to make yourself a nice home forum, it will have to find a site that provides free forum, or search for a forum script, and install it yourself.
If you decide to install a forum, a guestbook you already have, you just want to warn: Do not make a useless action that, if your home page, so the same maloposeschaemaya. The Forum, which no one writes, and which exists only "furniture" - is sad: (.
As for the chat ...
This service is provided to you chat, a guestbook or forum, also exist. Scripts for the chat to find, I think, too, you can install and configure itself - I do not know, do not try, I think, harder than a forum or guestbook.
But when you think, then why would chat on the home page, at all? The Forum further once you can understand, instant messaging is no longer the case. You can not stick a day to catch the occasional visitor, and not leave him there alone. It is best left to their favorite chat site address, how to write under the nickname, you sit there, and about when you are there. If someone you want pooschatsya (for example, to discuss your new poem), he (a) surely you razyschut there and be all happy.
Well, that's all. I hope you have a problem with the installation of the guest, forums and chat rooms will not arise.
