NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: MARK GIBBS ON WEB APPLICATIONS 09/08/04 Today's focus: Sign in with TheGuestBook.com
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Download any or all of our Special Reports at: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=79645 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Sign in with TheGuestBook.com By Mark Gibbs Guestbooks are one of those facilities that can be useful on a Web site if they are managed properly. The problem is that they usually aren't. Go to many sites and you'll find that ne'er-do-wells and spammers fill them up with profanity, advertising and pornography unless someone is paying attention. And even when someone is paying attention, most guestbook programs don't have much manageability anyway. I just found a service that holds out the promise of providing a practical and manageable guestbook facility: TheGuestBook.com. TheGuestBook.com is an application service provider that refrains from inserting advertising banners and allows you to: customize background color, background image, text, and link colors; filter profanity (asterisks appear in the message instead of the profanity); post IP addresses next to each guest's name; ban up to 20 IP addresses to eliminate problem guests; filter HTML code from within messages; include your own images using external URLs within your guestbook; give guests the option of leaving messages that can be read only by the guestbook owner; add headers and/or footers; and customize your guestbook to look like your own Web site. An important feature when guests want to post to your guestbook: they are challenged to copy a graphically rendered word into a text field to prevent robots from "stuffing" the guestbook. TheGuestBook.com also provides information in its FAQ about how to include the service transparently on your Web site. TheGuestBook.com service costs a very reasonable $9.95 per year - worth it to avoid the hassle of installing and maintaining a guestbook on your own server. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS TheGuestBook.com FAQ http://www.theguestbook.com/faq.php _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Mark Gibbs Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and he writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We'll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go to <http://www.gibbs.com/mgbio>. Contact him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Intel A NW Special Report: The State of Wireless LANs Wireless has becomes more integrated and accepted as a way of doing business. However, several questions are raised about its current state; what are the trends and best practices for deploying wireless LANs? What are the leading applications? 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