I've been searchig, for say, six months for a perl guestbook that has its appearence entirely customizable in html. I know there are tons of perl guestbooks out there that have a degree of customization with html, but they are almsot always integrated with perl script within it.

I want to be able to load up the html files for the different guestbook interfaces into a progream such as Dreamweaver and modify it to my hearts content. I realize there will be -some- tags such as %username%, %message%, etc or whatever.. but that's OK.

Currently I use www.signmyguestbook.com, which allows me ot customize how I'd like, although it's based on another server and has adds/etc. It'd be killer if someone knew of a perl script I could run on my own server, yet customize with html such as some of the free guestbook servers. Let me know if anyone has suggestions!

Wow, haven't heard anyone asking for a guestbook in AGES..lol. You may want to look into a full forum. You'll get more features in the end and it'll help your site..big time.

May I suggest...YaBB ;D
http://www.yabbforum.com

That's gonna be the best I can think of as guestbooks are really sorta passé :D