What's the difference between CGI & NON-CGI SITE???

Question

What's the difference between CGI & NON-CGI SITE?
Not in technical terms.. but how'd u define that to a person who doesn't even know a single word about web?

Answer 1

CGI is a server-side scripting language like PHP or ASP that allows the server to ouput dynamic HTML to the user. I can do all kinds of things (for example, putting out different numbers for a counter every time a user visits a page - you don't have to manually change your HTML every time somebody accesses the page). A non-CGI website cannot do this, it is limited to HTML (assuming it's non-CGI/PHP/ASP/Perl, etc).