Free CGI & Java for your Website

Here are some useful links if you should want to experiment with CGI or Java. This is a little more complicated than learning to write in HTML, so unless you have a pressing need for something that can only be accomplished with CGI or Java, I sugges you set up the rest of your website first and save this for last.

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and it allows you to have programs that write to files. Counters, chatrooms, voting booths, and everything else like that is CGI.

Yuriy's Guide for Free Cgi A real nice guide explaining what CGI is, what it's used for, where to get it, and where to put it. It also has a sample script that it walks you through.

The CGI Resource Index Organized in the Yahoo fashion. Lots of things.  From where to get CGI scripts in C/C++ to where to get CGI scripts remotely hosted. The free services are marked with free.

www.cybercity.hko.net It's a free webpage provider, that gives you a cgi-bin!

Matt's Script Archive The infamous CGI archive. Almost everyone knows about it by now, but I will describe it. Matt does some programming and has invented several great scripts like formail, and some messaging CGI program. He has a large handful of good, useful scripts, written in both Perl, and C/C++.

Witts End CGI Edition A group of people from a Hont Kong's Cybercity mailing list got together and put up this site. Very good for finding your basic CGI scripts.

Java can make almost anyones page fancy. However, there are some disadvantages to it. Only browsers using the newer versions of Netscape or Internet Explorer (and maybe some of the other browsers) will be able to view your Java.

Cut-N-Paste JavaScript This site has lots of javascripts, even a few perl scripts as well. There's seriously a ton of useful stuff here. And they do it by months, so every month there is different stuff. Just be sure if you see something interesting, you grab it before it's removed.. You can use their user friendly javascript to browse the different javascripts, or they have a search set up for your convenience..

The Java Boutique Very nice, lots of Java applets including text effects, clocks, games, other stuff, and much more!

The Iserver Java library and the The Iserver Javascript library Two good sources for Java applets, and Javascripts.

Sun's Java applets Nearly always reliable, a good collection of useful Java applets.

Gamelan & Earthweb staff picks They have several picked java applets or scripts. They seem to change the theme every month, so one month it may have office java applets / scripts. The next, perhaps artist applets / scripts.

JavaScript for the Total Non-Programmer This place basically teaches you the basics of Javascript, not only that, but it assumes you know nothing of javascript when you start!.. This means you don't have to know some to learn some, like it is with so many tutorials, it actually assumes you know none, so you can learn some..

The Javascript Planet Tons of javascripts. Go crazy!


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