Editor's
Note
08.01.00
We are always talking about creating a community for your visitors
with your website. How exactly do we go about doing that, you may
ask? In today's NetDummy, I have provided you with some free and
inexpensive CGI Scripts that allow you to provide space on your
website for your visitors to create their own home pages.
We hope that you find this newsletter interesting and useful.
YOU'RE LOST BETWEEN A BABY BOOMER AND A GEN X'ER IF...
- You remember when Jordache jeans were cool
- In your fifth grade class picture you were wearing an Izod shirt
with the collar up
- You know by heart the words to any Weird Al Yankovic song
- The Brady Bunch movie brought back cool memories
- You ever rang someone's doorbell and said 'Landshark!"
- Three words: Atari, IntelliVision and Coleco, sound familiar
- You remember the days when "safe sex" meant that your parents were
gone for the weekend
- You remember Friday Night Videos before the days of MTV
- A predominant color in your childhood photos is plaid
- While in high school, you and your friends discussed elaborate plans
to get together again at the end of the century and play Prince's
"1999" until you passed out partying
- You remember when music that was labeled alternative, really was
- You took family trips BEFORE the invention of the minivan
- You rode in the back of the station wagon and you faced the cars
behind you
- You watched HR Puffenstuff as a child, but now that you're older,
you really understand that it would have been much better had you
known about drugs at the time
The CGI Scripts You'll Need
- AllManage
AllManage is a program that will turn your website into Geocities
or Angelfire. They have all the items that you could need, including
a set amount of disk space, auto or manual approval of new
applications, a limited number of accounts, you get full admin
control, and you can suspend, remove or add member and much more.
- Net Card
How about the idea of Electronic Business Card? This Perl script is
very useful, if you want to give your site visitors free web space
but you don't want to use a lot of resources. Your visitors fill out
a form and instantly create their static homepages which look like a
business card.
- Easy Home Page Generator
Give visitors to your website a fun way to create and edit their own
home page with full control over personal text, favorite links and
clip art selections - splash, background, button, separator and
email.
CGI Scripts (cont.)
- WebHome Free
The free version of WebHome that allows you to become your own
Geocities. It has fewer features than the commercial version. It has
an easy to use interface and is simple to install!
- Janet
Janet and her partner Brad allow you to give away three page websites
to your visitors by having them fill out a simple form. You can set a
max number of sites to give out, so as not to kill your space. This
script includes three template/image sets for visitor pages. It
requires formmail or an equivalent, optionally uses SSI.
- DreamComm
DreamComm allows you to set up an online community from which you can
offer to sell users web pages or give them out for free. This script
allows customized space, signup method and more.
- HomePageMaker
HomePageMaker enables you to host small homepages built and
maintained by your visitors. The user can edit their page at
anytime through their web browser, and never have to upload
anything via FTP.
We at the Editorial Team would
like to thank all our readers for reading
NetDummy.
Sincerely,
Patrick
Stoddard
The Editorial Team
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