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First before I begin my ranting it is worth mentioning that a lot of very friendly and attentive in the cyber wilderness who devote much of their time to providing open source and free scripts of all variations PHP, CGI and Java to name a few. They provide specialist support, not to demand payment, and spend much of their time to help you avoid having to part with their hard earned money to get free programs and scripts and running on your Web site.

Now, having said that, I just spent an enlightening couple of days installing several PHP and CGI, mainly because all I have some experience of installations, the only true way to be fast and efficient with all this geeky stuff is to install , install and test a variety of applications and programs yourself.

After two days and more than a hundred scripts I am left drained. Half of the scripts I just dumped immediately due to an insufficient or no documentation and poor layout files. I am surprised that some fairly complex scripts are left to dry without installation documents at all. In other words, the author has spent days assembling and programming for complex scripts to fail miserably on poor or nonexistent documentation. Apart from this, that some sites you visit to download this document you insist bombed many pop-ups – the end result is neither good for the person to visit the site or site owner. Both are a part very quickly. Perhaps I am intolerant, but no sign of funds jump into the air and ads and I went blind. I know I’m not alone.

More frustration for taking the time to read endless documents and CGI scripts on websites to find that when you click on the link for more information or a download, you will find it death, the site under maintenance or what was advertised as free is not really free. Either that or you go to extreme lengths to get a script working only to find the perpetrators of advertising is everywhere, to the extent that it warrants dumping the script. Yes, I know you can remove it for a price, but why did not you tell me that I installed it before?

Even a very clear documentation is often omitted, which is a prerequisite for a writer, but not something you want to share their unhappy user – classic example might be to forget that the SQL database is required. Hardly a small space.