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Essay / Creating an Interactive Website with CGI - 1977
Creating an Interactive Website with CGIIntroductionThe explosion of the Internet in the 1990s was one of the most revolutionary business factors of the decade. The Internet allows individuals and businesses to communicate more efficiently and at lower cost. However, the most effective method of interaction is two-way interaction. This applies whether the interaction takes place between two people, a person and a company or between two companies. Basic HTML web pages allow for easy one-way interaction. It also allows users to exchange emails. More efficient web pages enable immediate two-way interaction. These pages can collect survey data, create shopping carts, check credit scores, or even just ask visitors to sign a guestbook. Interactive websites definitely have advantages over their less advanced cousins. Common Gateway Interface (CGI) provides one of the most common formats for designing an interactive site. This article will cover some of the concepts behind creating an interactive website with CGI. He will proceed by considering the following points:1. Context2. Creating FormsBackgroundBefore explaining how CGI works, it is helpful to have an overall perspective of how the Internet itself works in relation to the end user. Bruce Gronich of BigNoseBird.com offers a good analogy that will be used throughout this article. He compares the end user's browser to a rat searching for food. The bin distributes food when the rat asks for it. The trash is the server. So, the browser requests information from the server, and the server in return distributes the requested information. The server uses different...... middle of paper ......lt;INPUT TYPE="reset" value="Clear form"> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="MAIL_TO"VALUE="[email protected]">Symbolism in the Stone Angel - 683