Here is an easy way to get your guestbook up and running in no time.  Follow the steps below to enjoy
reading your visitors feedback.  Notice: Follow the instructions below at your own risk.

Four pages must be "uploaded" to members.aol.com in order for your guestbook to work.
You may want to print out this page.

The four pages are:

(filenames can be changed later if you prefer)

gbook.htm

myguests.htm

myguests.gbt

thanks.htm

Note:

All pages are set for .htm.  If you use .html, be sure to adjust accordingly.  Just save as .html instead of .htm

You may want to consider downloading AOLpress to create your Guestbook.
AOLpress is available FREE at Keyword: AOLpress

Below you will find links for each of the pages listed above.  Each page will include the HTML text that is needed to make your page work.  Once the page is viewed on your browser and then saved in your AOLpress directory, just go to the Tools menu (While viewing that page in AOLpress) and select Show HTML.  When the HTML text appears, make the required changes in the HTML code. (explained later)

First things first!

Bookmark this page now so you can return to it as needed.

The first step is to Save the four pages listed above to your AOLpress directory.   If you already have these files in your AOLpress directory, and don't want to change them, just substitute the file names.  
You can change the name of these pages anytime in the future. 

To save the files below, "click the link" and view the page on your browser, go to the File menu and click Save As.  Make sure that you Save directly to AOLpress.  Click OK to Save the page that you are viewing to your AOLpress directory.  Make sure that you Save as .htm or .html accordingly.  After it is saved to AOLpress, the page can be later "modified" as you see fit.

Save the pages below to AOLpress

gbook.htm

(Form Page)

After this page is saved to AOLpress, go to Tools, then click Show HTML.

The only thing you will do on this page is insert your username twice. (do not include @aol.com)

Insert your username where it indicates on the first line that starts with  <FORM.

Again, insert your username where it indicates on the third line that starts with  <INPUT.

After the above changes have been made, click CLOSE, then APPLY changes.

Be sure to SAVE your work.

Note:

  This gbook.htm file also includes the myguests.htm and thanks.htm filenames, so if you change their names, they must also be changed within the gbook.htm HTML text.

myguests.htm

(View Comments Page)

This page is ready for use as is...no changes are needed.

myguests.gbt

(Text Style/Placement Page)

This page is also ready for use as is...no changes are needed.

 If you want to "Create your own" .gbt page, click HERE.

The following procedure is to be used if you want to Copy the myguests.gbt page from my site.

While viewing the myguests.gbt page on the Internet, go to View Source in your Browser.

A box will appear called: myguests - notepad.

Within this box, go to Edit and click Select All. All of the text on the page will be highlighted.

Within this same box, go to Edit and click Copy while the text is still highlighted.

Open AOLpress.

While in AOLpress, create a NEW page.

Go to Tools and select Show HTML.

Go to Edit and click Select All.  All of the HTML code will be highlighted.

Go back to Edit and click Paste.

All of the text that was on the myguests.gbt page will now appear on your HTML source page.

Go to File and click Close. ( Not Exit ) A small box called Apply Changes will appear. Click Apply.

You should now see only the words, name, date and time, url and comments on that page with
hash marks ( # ) on each side of them.

Save the page only as myguests.gbt.

Upload the page to members.aol.com only as myguests.gbt.

Upload as a ASCII (document) Check off the radio button.

That should do it.

Note:

Once you Exit AOLpress and then reopen it, the .gbt file will appear as regular text.

If you want to EDIT this page, follow this procedure:

Open myguests.gbt from ALL FILES in AOLpress.   If the text appears as script, highlight
the "entire" page and press Ctrl plus C at the same time.  X out of  myguests.gbt.  Immediately open a
NEW page in AOLpress and go to Tools, Show html, and highlight the small amount of viewable text.
Press Ctrl plus V at the same time and all of the script that was on the original myguests.gbt page
will appear on the New page. Close (Not Exit) and click APPLY. You will see normal text on your page
again.  Edit as needed.  SAVE this page as myguests.gbt.  You will save this page over the old version.

Upload this New page to members.aol.com again.

thanks.htm

(Thank You Page)

The "Home" and "View Guestbook" links on this page are set for .htm.

You can change these links to .html if needed.  Be sure to SAVE your work.

Once you have all four pages entered in your AOLpress directory and inserted your username in the gbook.htm file as indicated above, you are ready to "upload" them to members.aol.com.

Basic steps for uploading your pages to members.aol.com:

For AOL 3.0  or AOL 4.0