Free Free Free
Scripts For Your Website
Step
1 - Ever Wonder How You Can Create Forums, Mailing lists, FFAs and more?
All those really
neat, nifty cool bulletin boards, banner ad rotation, auctions, guestbooks,
feedback forums, submit your site to lots of places, mailing lists...did
you know that many web site scripts are available for free or a shareware
price? There's even a free,
popular shopping cart script available you can install!
And that's the
key word. Install. Not every script is difficult to install - far
from it! As a matter of fact, if you are comfortable with computers, you
can install and configure your own scripts quite easily.
Possibly even
your ISP will provide assistance, like serve.com
does.
A good portion
of all those fancy applications you see on web sites are simply scripts.
No more, no less, just scripts.
Step
2 - What You Will Need
To use scripts
on your web site, you need to have permission to use cgi scripts on your
ISP's server. Many will allow you to do this for free.
Normally scripts
are placed in a directory called "cgi-bin" or "cgi"
or what have you and run via a program called "perl." Nope, you
don't have to install perl yourself - it should already be on your ISP's
server.
Got questions
about installing scripts? Want to know great places to download scripts?
Check out:
Step
3 - Great Free Script Resources
There are many
superb places to locate great scripts to put on your web site. Perl scripts,
javascripts that let you change button colors, all sorts of nifty goodies!
Check out:
Interested
in books? Consider:
 Programming
Perl (2nd Edition) by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Randal L. Schwartz,
Stephen Potter - Many recent books about Perl skimp on the Perl language
per se and treat the Perl language as a mere appendage to CGI scripting.
That is an egregious error: Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language)
is a fantastic language for processing text, generating reports, and managing
files and processes. Written by the perlson who created Perl (Larry Wall),
this book covers the essential features of the language extremely well.
 The
Cgi/Perl Cookbook by Craig Patchett, Matthew Wright (Contributor), Peter
Holfelder (Contributor) - Souping up a Web site has never been easier.
This book/CD-ROM set offers a complete introduction to CGI, Perl, and JavaScript
programming plus a collection of sophisticated CGI scripts that readers
can use to add popular functions to their Web sites, including search engines,
passwords, product databases, a shopping cart, custom forms, animated images,
and more.
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The
most popular Script titles from Amazon.com!
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