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Creates a guest book and its
Common Gateway
Interface (CGI)
script. The guest book can be resided on your server or on ours.
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Web interactivity is the essential ingredient for a successful
Internet-based business, whether it is commercial, academic or
social. It is imperative to know your customers' and visitors'
opinion to gauge your site's success and identify future online
strategies. Creating an online guest-book gives visitors to your
site a user-friendly format to provide valuable feedback, at the
same time reducing your efforts in collecting and recording this
information.
WebGenie's Guestbook*Star lets you create a guest-book
and its CGI with absolutely no programming experience.
Guestbook*Star is an easy-to-use Guestbook creator.
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How to create your guestbook...
- Create a web form, using your favorite HTML
editor.
- Click 'Your Guestbook'
- Choose which type of webserver you have (UNIX or Windows NT).
- Give some details such as your E_mail address, company name, etc.
- Click 'Write CGI' and your CGI is ready.
- Upload the form and CGI to your webserver.
- If UNIX webserver type 'chmod 755 *.cgi' to make the CGI active.
Alternatively, let Guestbook*Star make the guestbook and CGI for you...
- Click 'Your Guestbook'
- Click 'Auto Guestbook' and select where you want the guestbook and CGI located (i.e. your server or WebGenie's server)
- Give some details such as your E_mail address, company name, etc. and Save.
That is all there is to it! (see notes 4 and 5) Why not try it yourself?
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Features
- Create your own guestbook with original fields or choose from four
pre-designed guestbook templates; Personal, Social, Academic, Professional.
- Convert an existing guestbook style form into a fully functional guestbook
on your website
- Registered users have the option to use WebGenie's Guestbook Server to run
their guestbooks. This means:
- No need for access to your own cgi-bin
- No hassle in uploading, setting up and testing your guestbook CGI engine
- Your guestbook comes alive instantly!
For customers choosing to host their guestbooks on the WebGenie Guestbook Server:
- allowed one guestbook logfile per registered copy of
Guestbook*Star.
- Allowed to create an unlimited number of guestbooks all of which direct
their output to the one logfile and email address
- Everytime a guestbook entry is made the program can be set to notify you
with the visitor's name, email and address.
- Customisable background, colour, title and fields
- Automatically add the user to your mailing list
- Send a personalised thank you note via email
- Specifiy mandatory fields
- Hide/show the user's email address in the guestbook (only you will get to
see them)
- Hide/show the guestbook to the visitor
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Notes...
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- There is no need to buy hosting licence if able to reside the guestbook CGI on
own server. All that to pay then
is a one-off license fee of $49 for the software.
- While most ISPs allow their users to reside and run CGIs, each site may have different requirements
and directory specifications.
- If you are the system administrator for an NT or Windows webserver, then it is required to configure
the server to run CGIs. We can offer technical advice but we will not be able to configure it, as it
requires onsite access to the server.
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Reviews
ZDNet
"Guestbook Star creates a form with multiple data-entry areas to let
visitors to your Web site quickly and easily register."
"SAFE TO INSTALL" certificate means that GuestBook Star contains
no viruses, spyware, adware, trojans and backdoors and causes no threat when installed.
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Pass The Shareware"Guestbook*Star is a user friendly, powerful and effective Windows shareware application
that created a guestbook for me with just a few clicks of my mouse."
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