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Guestbook

8/13/2011

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Hello all, feel free to sign my Guestbook.

Want to create your own Guestbook with Weebly.com

Done in 8 basic steps: See Here.

112 Comments

Rob Nadigel link

10/1/2011 02:50:38 pm

great site Jeff

Jeffrey Kastner link

10/2/2011 02:30:07 am

;) Thank Rob

Dan

1/20/2012 12:35:10 pm

Great looking website. Assume you did a lot of your own coding.
How does SEO compare between weebly and wordpress?

Jeffrey Kastner

1/21/2012 04:50:55 am

Hey Dan,
Fortunately, I have no idea;) I set up a template, found my way around around the editor, but didn't do much more. So I guess I can't give a straight answer... not to mention, SEO is SEO ..and you don't need an editor to write code.
I couldn't begin to tell you where to add it in the Wordpress editor, "if it is even built into the editor" I even went back and looked.

Overall, between the two, there is no comparison. Wordpress simply isn't user-friendly.

Caroline

2/5/2012 04:49:20 pm

Thanks for this tip, very useful:) Good luck with your endeavours as a musician and with your website work.

Volcano link

3/4/2012 01:07:15 am

Great tutorial, thinking about adding this to my site.

Just want to say thanks, can't wait to see the way the new site looks when it's finished.

Jimmy The Popcorn Man link

8/7/2012 06:19:32 am

Hey Jeff Thanks for building JimmyThePopcornMan.com people love it!

Can we add this to the site as well?

Jimmy

said nadeem link

11/1/2012 01:33:29 am

nice stuff. informative

Rafael Fraga link

11/5/2012 11:52:14 pm

Hi Jeff, thanks for sharing your insight. I just created a Guestbook on Weebly using your advice. It took me a while because it was not clear the renaming part (Guestbook > Blog guestbook) and I linked them wrongly - maybe something you can easily solve by referring to the blog as Blog guestbook from the beginning.

I've been wondering about using a video as website background. It's becoming kind of normal nowadays. Do you think it's easily feasible with weekly?

Best regards,
Rafael
Amsterdam

Jeffrey Kastner

11/6/2012 02:12:50 am

Hey Rafael,
Sorry about that. I guess maybe I should only offer that option and have the user title the pages accordingly. You are totally right, I thought about that in the beginning. Thanks for the info.

You can pretty much do anything, so I'm sure getting a video in the background shouldn't be too hard.

Let me know if you have any further questions, make sure to use the contact form for any future questions. Thx, Jeffrey

Karl link

1/1/2013 11:37:29 am

Great help, Jeffrey! Thanks.

Jenipher link

1/2/2013 03:28:29 am

Thanks for the tutorial on how to add a guestbook to a Weebly site! I never could have done it without your help - your instructions were very simple and easy to follow! Happy New Year!

Annmaree link

2/28/2013 01:11:57 pm

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

Jean

3/1/2013 03:18:39 am

Thanks for the info!

Anne Cisz

3/6/2013 04:58:28 pm

I did it...I did it...I did it! YAY! It took about an hour (or more...I had trouble with the linking...) but it worked! THANKS SOOOO MUCH! I have fourteen websites on Weebly, but I am NOT a professional. I will be attempting to add Guestbooks on all of them...as I have time! THANKS AGAIN! I have searched and searched for free Guestbooks to add to my many sites, but I have not been pleased with any of them for various reasons. YOU have been a BLESSING to me! THANKS...and may GOD BLESS YOU! :)

Ashley

3/28/2013 04:54:17 am

How did you figure it out? I don't think the instructions are very clear

Melania

3/7/2013 08:00:32 pm

Hi Jeffrey,
Thank you so much for your tutoril to make a guestbook in Weebly. Much nicer looking than any other guestbook I have found. However, I have some problems linken the guestbook page to to blog post. I keep getting a blank page. Can you help me to fix this? Thanks.
Kind regards,
Melania

Jeffrey link

3/10/2013 03:11:58 am

It sounds like you linked to the regular page or somehow had them titled the same. I see you've sent a request so I'll explain in detail with your URL's for your site.

Thanks for writing.

Alen Joe link

3/22/2013 10:04:03 pm

Nice site Thanks

Ashley link

3/28/2013 04:43:53 am

I am trying to make a guest book for our wedding website but I am having trouble following your instructions. I think weebly has changed some of their settings. How are you getting sub pages within a page? Also I don't see the option to link a page. Any help is much appreciated!

Jeffrey link

3/28/2013 11:08:40 am

Hey Ashley,
Sorry there's 'two' ways to do this, and I see you've done the first part. It looks like Weebly's updated some info,,

So, you need do two things. Re-title the current page "Guest Book" to "Guestbook Blog" and hide that in your site's navigation by check the checkbox provided.
Then on the pages tab, click the 'Add Page" and add a "External Link" title your external navigation link "Guest Book" then link that too http://billyandashleyjachetta.weebly.com/7/post/2013/03/guest-book.html

You should be all set. Let me know how that goes,,
Jeffrey

Tracy

4/28/2013 12:00:00 pm

EXCELLENT tutorial!!! Thank you for helping me add a comments page to my weebly site. :D

Alan Egan link

5/1/2013 05:58:17 am

Did it in a matter of minutes! Super tutorial. Thank tou!

Paul link

5/5/2013 03:37:50 am

Hi,
I have a website and my design on weebly. I am debating about wether or not to put a guestbook on my website? If I was to get a guestbook on my website I'm I able to chose first if to make it go on the website before it goes live on the website? I don't want just anyone to put comments on and me not having control of them.

Jeffrey

5/5/2013 04:05:31 am

Hey Paul,
You certainly can! If you noticed, that is how this Guestbook is set.

If you click on you 'Guestbook' Blog Settings button while you are editing the Blog Guestbook Post, there is an option in the Weebly Blog Settings to set your Comment defaults.. Choose "Require Approval" Then Save and Publish. That will do it!
Let me know if you have any other questions,
Jeffrey T.

Marcia link

5/8/2013 03:40:48 am

Absolutely brilliant masterclass Jeffrey. I am by no means a computer wiz and although it took me a good half hour or more to finalise it, I think I succeeded!
Many, many thanks.
Marcia

C.B link

5/8/2013 07:19:13 pm

Hallo zusammen,
einfach nur super weiter so !!!
MfG :)

Vanessa

5/16/2013 02:32:46 pm

Thankyou for your Guestbbok post. Love it :)

Kyle

5/30/2013 07:41:22 pm

Hello, Thanks for the great tip. Any idea how to edit the reply fields? By this I mean where is says "Name (required)", "Email (not published)", etc. I just want "Name" and "Comment". Thanks again for your great info.

Jeffrey T. Kastner

5/30/2013 08:45:15 pm

Hey Kyle,
Unfortunately there is no way to remove or alter the titles for the blog comment input boxes.

Nawn Captain link

6/16/2013 12:48:30 pm

Being a website novice, I was able to create my guestbook easily ~ much thanks!

Kristen Hernandez link

6/25/2013 06:47:51 am

Hi Jeffrey,
I finally figured this out! And it works great. I just had one question, is there a way to hide the horizontal, gray divider that divides the header and the text of the post? I was able to hide the header, but the gray divider still shows up :( Thanks in advance!

Lynn link

7/12/2013 08:29:07 am

Thank you for the tutorial!

Matt link

7/16/2013 08:46:12 pm

Great page, Jeff ...very interesting layout ;-)

Chantal link

7/31/2013 03:03:37 am

Thanks for the helping me create a guestbook! It will really enhance my webpage!

Chantal link

8/1/2013 03:19:05 am

I have my guestbook set up the way you said. However, when I look at it, you have to click on each comment instead of seeing a list of comments like I see on yours. How do I change it into a list?

Jeffrey T.

8/1/2013 03:47:35 am

Hey ,
It looks like you have the 'Guestbook' navigation link set to http://marathondistrictmuseum.weebly.com/2/post/2013/08/guestbokk.html#comments

You should remove the #comments and only link http://marathondistrictmuseum.weebly.com/2/post/2013/08/guestbokk.html

That is the URL to the actual post.

~~

The other thing I noticed, your original Post was titled guestbokk so now the 'Permanent Link' it misspelled,, but you can change that too.. simply edit the 'Guestbook' Blog Post, then in the blog sidebar retitle the 'Permanent Link' to be guestbook.html and publish the post.. THEN relink the post using the following:

http://marathondistrictmuseum.weebly.com/2/post/2013/08/guestbook.html

With that you should be all set. (Make sure to Republish the changes.)

Katherine

8/14/2013 07:26:41 pm

Thank you so much for these instructions! Really easy to understand.

Peter B.

9/17/2013 01:52:51 am

Hi Jeffrey - many thanks from Switzerland for your clever "How to" modify the blog to a guestbook. This helped me a lot!

10/29/2013 04:51:05 pm

nice :)

girish

10/29/2013 06:57:17 pm

Hi.
Thanks for those instructions.
In my case, I feel I have done something wrong.

On my website, it shows as '5 Comments' and on clicking on it, it displays the comments.

Why doesn't it show the comments directly?

Any idea what wrong did I do? :(

Jeffrey T. Kastner

10/29/2013 07:27:30 pm

It sounds like you linked the blog page, but did not link directly to the post (which includes the comments).

Saagar

10/30/2013 07:50:51 am

Thanks a bunch! Any trick for moving this whole 'Leave a Reply' to the top of the page instead of making the user scroll up to the bottom?

Jeffrey

11/5/2013 02:34:28 am

There isn't a way to move the form to the top of the page, but you can link to the form using HTML, a button or text. I've altered my text in the Guestbook to link to the form at the bottom. I simply linked the text to:

http://www.jeffreytkastner.com/4/post/2011/08/guestbook.html#commentReplyTitle

(adding #commentReplyTitle to the end of the post URL)

But for the Guestbook post you can add the following HTML as well. That should work for you.

<a href="#commentReplyTitle">sign my Guestbook</a>

For more about Anchor Links see:

kb.weebly.com/anchor-links.html‎

Jen S.

11/4/2013 03:32:16 am

Jeffrey, Thanks for these instructions. I used them to create a guestbook/memory book for an online memorial for a friend's daughter. Can you tell me if there's a way to have the most recent comments posted show up on top (reverse the order)?

Jeffrey

11/5/2013 02:36:59 am

There isn't a way to change to order of the comments, currently.

An0ny

11/22/2013 10:01:59 am

<b>thanks</b>

Leroy

12/8/2013 11:23:01 pm

Thanks Jeffery! Appreciate you figuring this out and sharing with the rest of us.

Irene

12/22/2013 11:45:51 pm

Thanks Jeffrey, your guestbook looks great! I tried to create mine according to your instructions. I fail with the anchor. Where do I place it to ensure the link to it moves the cursor to the right place? Somehow I seem only to be able to place it at the end of my blog entry, and that does not do the trick.
Thanks, kind regards and merry Christmas,
Irene

chenille

1/5/2014 07:39:26 am

Thank you SO much.

Elisheba link

1/10/2014 06:52:50 pm

Hi, first I want to thank you for your instructions. If I can ever get it to work, I'm sure I'll love it. But, I have tried over and over again to create a Weebly blog using your instructions, and for the life of me I can't fix this. On steps 5-8 when I have created the guestbook blog and I have to "publish" it, up at the top left corner it never says "publish" up there, every time it only says "save". And then it never works and I can't get any further. I've gone the whole distance even though this happens and it never works. It always says 'page not found' when I go to visit the guestbook. Would you happen to know why this is happening? And can you please send me an email to let me know if you can help. Thanks I appreciate it. --Very frustrated. (Elisheba)

Elisheba link

1/10/2014 07:24:40 pm

And, I did it! Since I wrote last, I figured out how to do it. But I have a FB like and a Tweet button on it still. EEK. Can you tell me how to get rid of them? Thanks!

Elisheba link

1/10/2014 07:27:37 pm

I did it since the last time I wrote. I figured it out. Thank you so much. Now can you help me get rid of the FB like and the Twitter buttons? EEK! Thank you.

Jeffrey

1/11/2014 04:09:15 pm

Hi Elisheba,

Sorry for the delay, glad to hear you've figure it out:)

To get rid of the Tweet button and Facebook Like button, click on the pages tab, then select the Guestbook Blog, click Save & Edit. Then click on Blog Settings, uncheck the check box for the Share Buttons. Then Save your Changes.

You are most welcome, thanks for visiting!!
Jeffrey

Elisheba

1/11/2014 04:29:52 pm

Thanks so much for responding. I appreciate it alot. And for your comment on my site. It made me *smile*. Thanks again.

Edwin van Zon link

1/11/2014 12:20:00 am

Thanks for the HowTo. It was very helpfull

Courtney link

2/25/2014 05:50:19 am

hello- Great tutorial. how do you get the comments to always appear?

Jeffrey T. Kastner

2/28/2014 05:17:13 am

Hi Courtney,
If you check out the tutorial on how to create a guestbook the second portion is titled "How to link to the post itself", you will see how that is done.

Alia

3/19/2014 04:08:11 pm

Worked like a charm. Thanks for the tutorial!

Sara Wager link

3/19/2014 10:47:43 pm

This is a fantastic tutorial - Is there any way that the comments can be listed in reverse and put the newest at the top so that you don't need to scroll down to the bottom to see new stuff?

Jeffrey

3/20/2014 02:29:22 pm

Hi Sara,

Unfortunately it's not possible, at least currently, to change the order of the comments. Be sure to send Weebly a feedback request if you would like to see that or any other features get added to the editor.

Jay

4/10/2014 07:28:51 am

Great idea.. another thing that stinks about this is that weebly has some goofy reaction when using an iFrame to display the page... When you submit a comment it forces the entire page to reload and the guestbook page takes over the url instead of just reloading the iFrame. ie... http;//www.herandhim.us

Jeffrey

5/4/2014 11:04:28 am

Unfortunately, it's not as much an issue with Weebly as it is an issue with iFrames in general.

It would be better to avoid using iFrames if at all possible.

chan

5/22/2014 03:57:26 pm

great stuff

Purity Evans link

7/3/2014 02:48:48 pm

Thank you Jeffery. This helped me out tremendously.

Michelle Bullivant link

7/9/2014 02:10:36 am

Thank you - so straightforward - phew :)

Tomo Koeswoyo link

8/18/2014 11:48:07 pm

Thank you Jeffery. This is very useful information for me

Awdrey

9/19/2014 02:10:18 am

I can only get one comment to show on my page. The others doesn't show. Also, is there a way to chang the date on someones comment or just not show the date at all?

Jeffrey

9/19/2014 04:53:53 am

If only one comment is appearing, it's possible to have the blog comments set to Approve First. In that case you would need to alter your blog settings, or approve each comment.

There wouldn't be a way to change the comment dates, but you can certainly hide them. On the pages tab of the editor, click on your blog page then in the Advanced Setting section simply add the following CSS code. This will hide the comment dates from the published site.

<style>
.blogCommentHeading .blogCommentDate {
display: none;
}
</style>

Awdrey

9/19/2014 02:59:14 am

How did you get the "sign my guestbook" link at the top of the page to send you straight to the bottome where the comment box is?

Jeffrey

9/19/2014 04:56:15 am

The "sign my guestbook" link can be added by linking the text using your blog post link, with #commentReplyTitle at the end.

For example, mine looks like this:
http://www.jeffreytkastner.com/my-guestbook/guestbook#commentReplyTitle

Susan

9/19/2014 09:32:56 am

Hello Jeff, I'm following your instuctions down to the wire and when I go to add external link and put my link in that works just fine. But there is no "Hide in navigation menu" at all, do you know if weebly changed this or am I doing something wrong? Royally confused.

Susan

9/19/2014 10:01:29 am

I've just fiquired it out, I just slid my Guestbook page under the guestbook blog page, like a submenu. Obviously weebly has changed a little since this post. And thank you for sharing.

Jeffrey

9/19/2014 10:15:53 am

Hi Susan,

The Instructions are up to date, but it sounds like you were trying to hide the external link. Instead you would hide the guestbook/blog page and your external link to the post would remain visible.

Check out the Instructions page, starting with:
"Using the 'External Link' option,...." Those two screenshots should help.

If that's not working for you, feel free to contact me using my contact form, or leave a comment with a link to your site. So I can take a closer look.

Susan

9/19/2014 10:03:38 am

Okay last question, how do I change "Leave a Reply" to "leave a comment" Please help and thank you

Jeffrey

9/19/2014 10:40:24 am

Hey Susan,

Unfortunately, Weebly does not provide a way to change the default blog page text, such as the 'Leave a Reply' text,, but...

If you add some custom JavaScript to the 'Footer Code' area in the Advanced Settings section on the Page tab of the editor for the blog page, it can be altered. The following will work:

<script>
if (window.location.pathname.match('/my-guestbook/guestbook')) {
document.getElementById("commentReplyTitle").innerHTML = "Leave a comment!";
}
</script>

The one part of this code you would *need* to alter would be the '/my-guestbook/guestbook' ~to match the link/URL of your blog page.

For reference, as you can see my link is
http://www.jeffreytkastner.com/my-guestbook/guestbook

Susan

9/20/2014 06:57:21 pm

Thank you so much, this helps big time, blessings.

Carole Pope link

11/15/2014 06:36:05 am

Thanks for the instructions on how to create a blog page for a weebly site, I could not work it out before. I hope I have done it OK.

Carole

Claudia link

3/29/2015 02:51:09 am

Thank you very much for your instructions, they helped me a lot!

Nancy link

6/16/2015 01:39:48 am

Thank you so much for your instructions on how to set up a GuestBook. If you look at my site you can see it is a work in progress but now it has a GuestBook for everyone to sign. Thank you again so much and God Bless you!

Kalle link

6/26/2015 10:59:05 am

Hey Jeff - is it possible to style my "guestbook" like yours? with color difference?

Best Regards! - thanks by the way for the blog/guestbook!

Jeffrey

6/26/2015 02:36:45 pm

Hi Kalle,

It's certainly possible to style the guestbook, like how mine is designed. However, I've made a lot of customizations to the design of the Theme my site is using to make it look like it does.

Kalle

6/30/2015 12:35:35 am

Can you somehow explain it to me? ;-)

Jeffrey

6/30/2015 04:13:25 pm

Hi Kalle,

The basic design is like the Splash Page page type that your Theme has, but I've altered the width of the content area to make it wider. You can find basic instructions for that here:
http://themedocs.weebly.com

If you would like to alter the design of the theme your site is using, but need help with those changes I can also assist you with that(for a small fee). Simply submit a request here:
http://www.jeffreytkastner.com/service-request.html

blablabla

8/9/2015 05:44:10 am

Thanks a lot! :)

Fabrizio link

9/13/2015 09:27:58 am

Hi Jeffrey,
sorry for my english... :-)
I am creating a site with photo weebly and would like to add a guestbook. I followed your instructions clear but the problem is that it does not work external link.
It always displays page 404. Maybe weebly changed something but I don't know where I'm wrong.
Thanks for your help
Ciao Fabrizio

fabrizio link

9/13/2015 10:07:11 am

Hi Jeffrey,
I may have solved the problem. For the moment thanks
ciao Fabrizio

Tomokoeswoyo link

11/25/2015 11:49:13 am

Nice info, Jeffrey! Thanks.

justin link

12/11/2015 03:42:28 pm

Ang link

12/21/2015 09:03:41 pm

Love this! Thanks for the details and awesome screenshots.

0llum

12/28/2015 04:39:36 pm

Hey man, thanks so much for your help!
Is it possible to show the comments in the opposite order? So that the newest entries are on top?

Patti

1/24/2016 01:04:44 am

Hey! How did you get yours to say "Sign My Guestbook" instead of the default, "Leave A Reply"????

Jeffrey

1/28/2016 10:48:05 pm

Hi Patti,
If you add some custom JavaScript to the 'Footer Code' area in the Advanced Settings section on the Page tab of the editor for the blog page, it can be altered. The following will work:

<script>
if (window.location.pathname.match('/my-guestbook/guestbook')) {
document.getElementById("commentReplyTitle").innerHTML = "Sign My Guestbook!";
}
</script>

The one part of this code you would *need* to alter would be the '/my-guestbook/guestbook' ~to match the link/URL of your blog page.

Michelle link

1/27/2016 11:38:46 am

Thanks so much Jeffrey for the great instructions on how to set up a Guestbook. Very easy to follow and worked perfectly on my friends' website: www.hellnbackacdctribute.com
Have a great one!!

Eden

1/28/2016 09:14:24 pm

Cool!

josaphinejasmine@netzero.net

2/20/2016 12:18:54 am

Excellent material!

Aryeh S link

2/21/2016 02:07:41 pm

Thank you!

Tsegaye Lobban

5/9/2016 07:34:43 am

Thank you so much for your help with this Jeffery. My students are building online portfolios a\t school and this was a great help :)

Brooke

5/16/2016 07:04:55 pm

Awesome help! Thanks!

Shayne

5/17/2016 09:38:53 pm

Your instructions were very clear and I've created a guestbook on my class page. I'll be using this for student's too.

Jasmin link

5/26/2016 06:45:50 am

Hi Jeff!

Nice idea, thank you so much! It helped me a lot, but I just have one question: How do I remove the social media options for my first blog entry like facebook likes and twitter?

Jasmin

Jeffrey

5/26/2016 08:25:42 am

Hi Jasmin,

It looks like you were able to remove the Facebook and Twitter buttons from your Guestbook. So you should be all set!

Silvia link

7/28/2016 04:38:45 am

Thanks for your explanation over how to make a guestbook. I will give it a try :-)

Gina

1/11/2017 09:09:29 am

Hi Jeff,
I am trying to create a guestbook for my grandfather's memorial page. I currently have it set as a contact form, but am going to change it to your format. If I do that, will the responses still be sent to an email I provide? My grandmother would like to receive emails of who leaves comments for her records. Thanks!

Jeffrey

1/11/2017 09:52:59 am

In the Weebly Editor, in Settings > Blog Settings > Blog Title there is an option for "Notify me of new comments" where you can add an Email for that blog page. So when a user comments on the blog page an Email is sent.

Norma link

2/27/2017 11:33:39 am

My site is a work in progress and not very techie. Found your information on building a guestbook page. I'm excited to try,knowing help will be needed. Thanks Jeffrey

Nick

5/10/2017 06:28:31 pm

Thanks for the guide!

Serena link

5/28/2017 12:25:23 am

HI, I followed your instructions to add a guest book but I must have missed something as after pasting in the CSS code then publish, nothing comes up as in no button or field to comment on the guest book..

Jeffrey

5/28/2017 12:43:08 am

Serena, it looks like you may have created a blog page and published your site but not created a blog post, and then your navigation link is linked to the blog post.

Ife

6/22/2017 11:35:15 pm

Thank you sooo much!!!

You are a livesaver

Jaki link

9/27/2017 05:02:57 pm

Very informative - thanks

Nick Courtney

1/24/2018 12:53:11 pm

Hi Jeffrey...great tutorial. Thanks for the instructions. I read through your Guestbook to see if there is a way to change "Leave a Reply" to "Leave a Comment" and found where you had addressed that question. I'll give it a try. Thanks again for the great work.

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