Using CSS to customize your page

Following XHTML recommendations, your guestbook is completely free from styling by default. To get the look you want, all of the style information should be kept in a seperate stylesheet, which you link to your guestbook in the header. This gives you complete control over how your guestbook looks, and lets you style it to fit in with the rest of your site.

CSS documents require some technical knowledge to write, but a basic CSS document can easily be written without any in-depth knowledge. Take a look at our CSS Tutorial to see how easy it can be. There are also a lot of free and shareware software which can help you create stylesheets quickly and easily.

The guestbook can be split into three main sections:

• Guestbook entries
• A 'Sign Guestbook' link
• An optional page selector

Guestbook entries are displayed if the book has been signed, showing information about the visitor and their comments.
The 'Sign Guestbook' link is always displayed, giving a link so that people can sign your guestbook..
A page selector is displayed if there are more than 10 entries in the guestbook - entries are displayed with the most recent at the top, so older entries are available on the other pages. If there are less than 10 entries in your guestbook, the page selector is not displayed.

More details on how to set the style for each part is given on these pages :
Styling for Guestbook entries
Styling for the 'Sign Guestbook' link
Styling for the page selector