Guestbook

A guest book is a continuous tape of visitors of a particular place book with blank pages, can be left in the comments and / or names in general. Guest books are mainly led by public institutions such as museums, restaurants or hotels, but also from private households and student societies. Especially in traditional places you can often find items of historical figures in old guest books. Special cases of the guest book are

• The condolence book, are laid down in the after a Death Condolences
• The Golden Book, which is performed in town halls and in the app itself honored guests of the community

Electronic guestbooks

In the Internet context, the term refers to a particular form of leaving messages on websites, especially comments about the Site or its theme. Normally, no registration is required and it is also more of a chance to leave a quick note.

The purpose of this practice is also an insight into the group of people the website visitors to offer as the "real" guest books, including information such as their geographical location, their own websites, etc. The presentation will be in the form of a linear list. Normally electronic guest books also serve the purpose of publicity and discussion. Thus, the operators usually are hoping to increase the length of stay and number of visitors. The entries are listed chronologically in the rule and not as in chat rooms where you can communicate in real-time almost, or in Internet forums, whose contributions are usually ordered by discussion threads.

There are also interactive guest books where visitors by using HTML tags that can integrate BBCode and similar multimedia content and to format text. Can be embedded as images, but in some cases even Flash applets or HTML5 videos. Besides guestbook scripts that are directly integrated into the site and located on the server of the website, now offer several commercial vendors guestbook script that has Payable or finance itself through the use of advertising. But there are also many free, ad- free scripts available.

Guestbook entries on web sites have the practical problems continue to arise. Internet guestbooks, for example, regularly fall victim to spam by spambots or there is irrelevant or offensive statements in guest book entries. Partially this problem is countered by CAPTCHA queries mail addresses confirmations or activation of entries after inspection. Another problem for the respective website owners may be caused by the removal of the guestbook script to commercial providers. As the guest book entries are only present on the provider's server, in this case, entries may be lost, should adjust its range of providers. Many suppliers therefore offer customers the ability to download and thus save a backup file with the entries.