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Quick start templates, Guestbook and Quiz builder tools for SFSU Faculty


Faculty Home Page Builder

Faculty Home Page Builder

Faculty Home Page Builder is a program that automatically creates an HTML document using the information typed into the form. The form contains fields to enter your education, publications, research interests and contact information. After complet ing the form, the program processes the input and creates the HTML code. The code can be saved to a file and published using FTP.

Demo: Faculty Home page, Create a : Faculty Home Page

Course Home Page Builder

Course Home Page Builder

Course Home Page Builder is a program that automatically creates an HTML document using the information typed into the form. The form contains fields to enter information about your course such as office hours, class schedule, assignments, test da tes, and the syllabus. After completing the form, the program processes the input and creates the HTML code. The code can be saved to a file and published using FTP.

Demo: Course Home Page Builder page, Create a: Course Home Page

Generic Form Builder

Generic Form Builder

Generic Form Builder is a program that automatically generates an HTML document for basic forms such as surveys. The results are sent to the E-mail address you specify. After completing the form, the program processes the input and creates the HTM L code. The code can be saved to a file and published using FTP.

Demo: Generic Form Builder, Create a: Generic Form

Quiz Builder This tool will generate the HTML document for a simple Web-based quiz. The quiz can consist of multiple choice and short answer questions. The results of the quiz are sent to the E-mail address you specify. There is also an option to direct the quiz taker to a Web site if they achieve a minimum score and to another site if they do not achieve the minimum score. After completing the form, the program processes the input and creates the HTML code. The code can be saved to a file and published using FTP.

Demo: Quiz Builder, Create a: Quiz

Guestbook Guestbook allows you to set up your own comments page. From there, visitors can add entries to your guestbook which are displayed with the most recent guestbook entry at the top.

Demo: Guestbook page, Create a: Guestbook

CGIEMAIL The CGIEMAIL program allows you to process any kind of form with the input from users being directed to the E-mail recipient of your choice, and formatted in any way you choose. CGIEMAIL is more versatile than the Generic Form Builder but is less automated. It involves creating an HTML document and a template file that determines the format of the E-mail sent after the form is completed.

Demo: CGIEMAIL, Create a form using: CGIEMAIL

WWWBoard WWWBoard is a threaded World Wide Web discussion forum and message board which allows users to post new messages and followup to existing ones.

Create a: WWWBoard

Freechat Free Chat is a "chat room" system for the web.. A "chat room" is a place where lots of people can join in and talk to each other in real time.

Create a: Freechat


Faculty Home Page Builder, Course Home Page Builder, Generic Form Builder, and Quiz Builder are developed by Simple Start at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Guestbook is developed by Matt's Script Archive. CGIEMAIL created by Bruce Lewis, MIT. Freechat is designed by New Breed S oftware.


CGI Resources

The Curricular Web Server has user CGI-BIN support enabled. To use this feature your CGI files must have the file extensions .cgi.

For example if you wish to run a PERL script called counter.pl you must first rename the file to be called counter.cgi.

More information about CGI is available from: