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What are "Scripts"?
Anything on a web page that changes with each visitor, or that accepts keyboard input, from a visitor counter to a data entry form or a shopping cart, requires a small program, called a script. These programs can either be executed on the web site's host computer (server side) or downloaded and run on the visitor's computer (client side). Because client side scripts can significantly slow the delivery of web pages to visitors with slower internet connections and can place an unwanted burden on older and slower computers, WebSpinners.com prefers to use server side scripts wherever possible. Server side scripts can be written in any computer language that the hosting web server supports.WebSpinners.com specializes in custom scripts designed to meet our clients exact needs. Whether you need a searchable database, and the forms for entering your data into it, or a web page whose content you can change from your home or office computer, or a complete eCommerce site with online credit card payment, we can provide the scripts required for the job.
We also have a number of generalized PHP and Perl scripts which can be incorporated into a client's site at a very modest cost (typically from 2 to 4 hours at our standard hourly rate). These inclde a Site Visitor Counter (free to all clients hosted with WebSpinners.com), an Announcements Page (password protected), where you can post time-dated announcements, job openings, or schedules of interest to your web site visitors, a Password Management System, where you or a designated administrator can add or delete passwords for other users, staff members, or whoever else you wish to have access, and a GuestBook*, where visitors can leave comments about your site (useful for gathering postal or email mailing lists of visitors interested in your products or services). Basic interactive chat room and discussion forum scripts are also available.
* It has been our experience that open to the public guestbooks require careful and frequent monitoring. Random site visitors will often enter rude or obscene comments, advertisements, or other unwanted entries into a guestbook. Our guestbook scripts provide password protected access by a client's administrator to remove unwanted entries.
Site and scripts created by: WebSpinners.com (info@webspinners.com)
Webmaster: Donald L. Blanchard.
Phone: 720-937-4829