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Dear Hot Scripts Members

When I was a kid, I used to think that art was something solely related to paintings and other graphics work. But art can be applied to any field, including web design and scripting.

Wikipedia's definition of art is "the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions." This same deliberate arrangement of elements can also enhance web scripts. If you take a look at most scripts, you'll see that they share the same skeleton — a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) framework for their back end and front end. All that changes with each new script is the way data is formatted and rendered on the front end in addition to the unique features of each script. If you combine different elements of scripts, you can come up with innovative new scripts — that's actually how new mutations of web scripts are born.

Take Digg.com. Its framework is based on a link management system with a unique algorithm for voting. Flickr, on the other hand, is simply an advanced photo gallery script with its unique feature being that the site offers remote hosting for images. There is so much you can do with a simple script by mutating it and using it in an artistic manner. To customize each script, you need to understand it, investigate its plugins, and apply the plugins in a way that's different from their original purpose. To make the script more successful and unique, apply it to a particular niche.

So, the next time you see a script on Hot Scripts, let your creative juices flow, and you might save money, develop a new product, and create marvels.
 


Sincerely,

Ahmad Permessur
Newsletter Editor

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