KEY CONCEPTS OF WEB PAGE DESIGN & MAINTENANCE

WHAT IS A DYNAMIC SITE?..........

WHAT IS CGI?.........................

HOW DOES HTML FIT IN?................





DYNAMIC SITE

A WEB SITE WHERE AN OUTSIDE EVENT CAN INITIATE A RESPONSE eg A SEARCH ENGINE





CGI

CGI SCRIPT- COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACE - IS A PROGRAM RUNNING OUTSIDE THE SERVER THAT ALLOWS THE SERVER TO RETRIEVE INFORMATION FROM THE SCRIPT





HTML

THE RESULT OF RUNNINGA SCRIPT PRODUCES AN HTML DOCUMENT WHICH IS SENT TO A BROWSER AND CAN BE READ