CGI Programming

At Advanced Web Engineering, we specialize in custom quality programming for web applications.

CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, and it's the way that business happens on the internet today. CGI allows a way for your visitors to interact with your website so that they can order products or search databases and you can keep track of people visiting your site, run a message board or have a guestbook etc... the list of possibilities is endless.

The most obvious example would be : Someone surfing your website looking for a specific product or service that you supply. Using a keyword search, they can find your information on that product or service and then purchase it using their credit card and an online form. Your sales tracking page tells you that you've made yet another sale to somewhere in Nebraska for example. You never even lift a finger: the CGI does all the work..

Do you have a large database of information for your visitors? A list of products, their features and cost, etc? Databases can hold all your information for you and show it to the viewer in a way that allows them to search and easily find what they are looking for.

One of the biggest problems with designing a good looking website is the vast number of different browsers out there. This is a problem that most other website designers and design companies completely ignore. Since CGI and SSI run on the web server itself, not in the clients browser, these options compatible for every client with every browser. Your visitors are guaranteed to see your page as you meant them to see it.

You can also design different pages to work with the varied capabilities of the different browsers to ensure seamless delivery of your webpages.

Another advantage of both CGI is convenience to the person maintaining and updating the website. They take otherwise complex and time consuming tasks and turn them into a breeze.

If you can use a form on a web page, you too can make updates to the content of your website with no special skills or training required. Simply enter the new items into a form on your private administration page, click a button, and your website is updated! Your new updates look just they way they were originally designed to look; clean and in the format and style of your site.

CGI programming is not at all like designing a web page, there is no wizard editor that can whip one up for you in a jiffy. Programming requires a higher level of computer expertise and understanding. Finding that knowledge is much harder than just finding a web designer. Rarer still is an expert web design team that can provide both expert design and programming. At AWE, we offer both.

Many programmers write programs so that they only do what they are meant to do without considering the design their program will have to be incorporated into. We know how important the look of your website is to you and your customers, and all programming is done to fit in seamlessly with the rest of the site.

Your website reflects on you as a person, your business, your group and even your co-workers. If your site is unprofessional, mis-matched, or generally haphazard, then it is hard to make a good impression on your viewers. In this case, your website would be working entirely against you. Use our years of experience to convey the image that you want your visitors to see!