[miketwalker]

I agree with Joel 100%, take his advice.

Personally, I have noticed with team sites that forums aren't very useful. ChiefDelphi is a nice center for all teams to join, but usually within a team having a forum is pretty useless (unless your team is absolutly humongous and hard to get all the members in one place... i.e. MOE)

Guestbooks make a professional site look very very very unprofessional in my opinion, especially third-party ones... because the templates are different, pop-ups are annoying, etc.

If you want people to comment on things dealing with the site (for example... a news post) I'd suggest having a little thing where they can comment on that particular thing. That keeps things organized, and can be used professionally. For example, a news article talking about the design process during build could be commented on with different people's views on where to proceed and other people could read those and get different users' opinions.

However, using a guestbook is just "HI!! OMFG your site is rulz0r 1337!" or something, and it just doesn't add anything to the site that's useful, and nobody's gonna read it anyhow unless they're bored... so it looks bad, ya know what I mean?

Just my view though, I always steer clear of guestbooks.