CGI Script Installation Tutorial6.What kind of scripts do I need?
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Benny Alexander December 22, 2004
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It depends on what
you want to accomplish. If you want to develop a simple personal page, you can
just start by installing a Form mailer script because you may be enthusiastic
about your visitors' feedback. Then, later on, add a guest book or text/graphic
counter that displays the number of visitors to your site.
If you are
developing a corporate website, then you may need a survey and hence should
install a Survey or Poll script. And if you want to protect some of your pages
for members only, then you can install a password protection script. If you want
to sell something online or your business involves e-commerce, then you will be
in need of a good shopping cart script, supporting SSL.
The latest and
emerging concept in websites is called Portal or Vortal (Vertical Portal)This
means a gateway that gives everything you would like or leads you in the right
direction. yahoo.com and ivillage.com are examples of portals. These are often a
huge website that include many scripts and pages. The following is a list of CGI
scripts that you can install to make your site a portal: counter, form,
discussion forum, password, web-based free e-mail, shopping cart, chat, download
books or scripts, suggest your site to a friend, opinion poll, survey, quiz,
database, calendar of events, add a link, free web pages, banner ads, rating,
daily quote, site search, a search engine. Visit our page on portal development
to discover a list of the best scripts to build a portal.
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