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Classroom 5. Messageboards, E-Mail-Forms, Chats, Counter...
What is a website without the possibility of giving feedback?? The best way to get in contact with the visitors of your site by offering easy ways to do this.
Let me start with an introduction about a few of the basic interactive services that the net offers and than show your as an example one free internet service where you can get it all.
A guestbook on your website gives every visitor the possibility to leave their opinion online for every following visitor to read.
Kind of similar to this is the messageboard. The difference is that you can reply directly to other user's comments and boards are usually set up for specific subjects.
A very good way to get user feedback, or handle their questions is the E-Mail-Form. The user types their question into an online-form and when they push the send button the message will be automatically sent to your E-Mail-Account.
You probably already know about chat -- there you can “talk” online with other users by typing your sentences in 'real time' into the computer. Every other user who will be in the chat room can read and answer what you 'said' directly.
A counter will count the visitors of your website.
Like I said there are loads more free services on the net. A free and easy service for a lot of the stuff you will need is
Just go there and register for the free membership.
The next time you are online the E-Mail-Form will work.
If you want, you can change all the settings of style, colors, grafics or text on your E-Mail-Form. Bravenet gives explanations to every step to do this in the membership-area.
After your first website is done completely with everything we will get some free webspace on the net to host your site. So if you had fun over here go ahead to
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