guestbooks
Apr. 19th, 2025 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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smallwebI've accidentally collected more than a couple of links for guestbooks options for personal sites, so I thought I'd better share them. I'm focusing on free AND ad-free options.
Atabook, from the folks who run Nekoweb. This is the one I use, and while it doesn't come with an embed option you can stick it on your site with an iframe.
guestbooks from meadow.cafe is a similar service, but it comes with an option to directly embed the guestbook on your website either with iframes or Javascript.
Kalechips' guestbook runs on PHP and stores entries in a CSV file.
Groundedwren's Guestbook runs with Javascript, Discord and Google Sheets.
You can set up Webmentions to go to a guestbook page, as seen here.
For people with more time and/or a specific aesthetic, Eva made this amazing notecard guestbook page. Here's another similar type, though I'm not sure how it was made.
I've also seen people create a Guestbook post on their Dreamwidth journal, and invite comments there. :D
Atabook, from the folks who run Nekoweb. This is the one I use, and while it doesn't come with an embed option you can stick it on your site with an iframe.
guestbooks from meadow.cafe is a similar service, but it comes with an option to directly embed the guestbook on your website either with iframes or Javascript.
Kalechips' guestbook runs on PHP and stores entries in a CSV file.
Groundedwren's Guestbook runs with Javascript, Discord and Google Sheets.
You can set up Webmentions to go to a guestbook page, as seen here.
For people with more time and/or a specific aesthetic, Eva made this amazing notecard guestbook page. Here's another similar type, though I'm not sure how it was made.
I've also seen people create a Guestbook post on their Dreamwidth journal, and invite comments there. :D
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Date: 2025-04-19 09:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-04-27 08:56 am (UTC)Nice of you to spread these resources! I know I'm slightly bummed when someone else's website gets me all excited and I can't send them a hello in some way for lack of guestbook or mail address.
Those notecard designs look amazing (though made with short messages in mind).
For other PHP guestbooks, there's rmf's guestbook and PHP guestbook. I use the latter myself; while it's highly customizable, it's not beginner-friendly if you want something other than the default boxes.