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What are scripts?
(PHP, ASP, Perl, CGI, ETC..)

The pages of your web site are created to ‘do’ things different, to make colors, to make sounds, and to make the person using your site see things as you want. Motions, colors, sounds, and interaction online is completed using PHP, ASP, Perl, CGI programs and more.

The methods of how your web pages work together are created using scripts. If you are not a programmer you may not ever need to know how these items work, but you can use web site builders to create your pages all the same. The scripts, the programs that  are used to create programs that run your pages on a server include programs that will update and change the information on your page without you manually having to make those changes. For example, if you have the date displayed on your web page, a script would be updating and changing the date on your pages daily without your going in and changing that date daily.

Scripts are also useful in other ways, such as in allowing guests and readers to make notes, sign your guest book, and to leave comments on the pages of your site. If you were to look carefully at the web site builder you are going to use, you will see these same options available. You are already using scripts inside the program you are using, without having to know all the inside details of programming to get the job done.

Scripts are also known as languages. The languages of programming are how the changes on your site can be updated without your constantly needing to be online and making those changes. Some of the most popular types of scripts include those of PHP, Perl and ASP.

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