Can NOT get FP2003 Guestbook to Display Messages!

[Joe S.]

Hey guys,

I'm setting up a simple guestbook for my family site. I'm using the
guestbook template in Frontpage 2003, and it sets up ok, but once published
the guestbook entries (form results) don't display. It is correctly saving
the form results to the guestlog.html file, and if you open that directly in
IE the results are all there. That information doesn't ever seem to diisplay
on the main guestbook page, though, even after multiple refreshs. I've tried
using meta refresh tags on both the guestbook.html page and the guestlog.html
page and it doesn't help. The only way to see guestbook entries made since
the last publish is to republish - THEN the include page component seems to
correctly refresh the guestbook entries.

This is driving me nuts since the entries are getting into the log ok, but
the server just isn't updating the log until I republish the page. Does
anyone have any ideas?

URL: http://www.thesuligoys.com/guestbook2.htm

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Louis]

Hi,
Why don't you just copy and paste the Guestbooks entries on to your
website. I had to do that with my website anyways because I got a bunch of
ads and people kept hitting the send button twice.

 

[Joe S.]

Well, I could, but I'm not actually trying to do a guestbook, but more of a
generic little blog. I already use a free online guestbook service for my
actual guestbook - it's one of the ones where you have to embed a bunch of
links in the code of your site, and it would screw up site layout if I didn't
give the links their own page with an instant meta-refresh to the book. So,
that's working ok. What I want to do with FP though, is be able to post some
small topics of discussion, and open them up to comments from my family and
friends. So, if I ever get this to work like it should, I'll have a bunch of
"guestbooks" on my site. So, I don't want to have to manually post all the
responses. I'd like to TRY it the automatic way - I'll name the pages
something random and use the NO INDEX commands, and see how bad the spam gets.

Thanks for the reply, though.

Joe

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Then consider using the FP discussion web component, and setting it up in a subweb / subsite.

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[Joe S.]

Oh. Duh. I never noticed that before! Don't have time to mess with it
right now, but I see what you're talking about. Looks like it'll do what I
want, and more. Thanks...