Make your site interactive with CGI scripts

Do you want to make your website more interesting for your visitors? Do you want to add polls, forms, guestbooks, calendars, or other bells and whistles? You can do all of this and more with CGI scripts.

Pre-written CGI scripts are available in free and commercial versions. Free CGI scripts often provide limited functionality and perform a single function such as rotate banners or display a simple calendar.

But commercial CGI scripts are often rather complex, offering powerful website add-on functionality such as link directories and database driven interfaces. Several powerful forum and blog CGI scripts make it easy to interact with other users by sharing information, offering help, or just having fun.

You can download free CGI scripts and install them on your website, or you can purchase the commercial versions. In addition to the added functionality, commercial CGI scripts often come with installation included, which is a big plus if you're just getting started with scripts.

If your web hosting company doesn't allow script installations, you can use hosted CGI scripts. Hosted CGI scripts are offered by another website. The scripts actually reside and execute on their servers instead of yours. All you have to do is insert the short snippet of code they give you into your web page where you want the script to be displayed.

There are numerous free resources on the web for learning how to install, configure, and even write CGI scripts. The most common CGI scripts are written in PERL, and are referred to as PERL scripts. PERL isn't difficult to learn. All that is required is a little study and practice using one of the many high quality online PERL tutorials.

You can add CGI scripts to your website to help your visitors enjoy a better web experience, or you can simply use a hosted CGI solution. The choice is yours. Get started today and make your site more interesting and easier to use!