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By Benny Alexander

What kind of scripts do I need?
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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