Hi John,
Here you go…

1.       Embedding a guestbook… When you are in your guestbook page, scroll to the bottom of the page and you should see a drop-down, labelled ‘Change editing mode’ – the default will be ‘Text Editing’, you want to change it to ‘HTML Editing’, then double click to edit an empty text block towards the bottom of your page. This will open a text field, into which you need to paste <GUESTBOOK><GUESTBOOKID>481</GUESTBOOKID></GUESTBOOK> into it, save and publish. That will embed your guestbook.

2.       If you want a page with only the guestbook, no guestbook entries… Edit the Properties of the page, then click ‘Show Advanced Page Properties’ at the top right. Scroll right down to the ‘Access to HEAD tag’ text field, then paste the below italicised code into it, then save and publish…

<style type=”text/css”>
<!--
.guestbookmessagetext,
.guestbookmessageinfo,
.guestbookmessagerule { display:none }
-->
</style>

That should hide all the messages from the page in question, leaving only the form. You can then have a separate guestbook page for the messages. That page will have the guestbook at the bottom, which we could also hide, so you have the form on one page, and the entries on another… But you would be just as well leaving the form on the entries page, for your users’ convenience, should they wish to submit an idea after reading the other ones. 

I’m feeling my way along here, because we’re on 8.8, whereas you are on 8.3. My instructions may not perfectly reflect the version you are using, so if any of it doesn’t make any sense, pick up the phone and it hopefully won’t be hard to work out what the difference is.

All the best,
Dave.