Consultants give advice. A Web-based consultant is a form that the user fills in to describe a problem-a virtual interview. When the user clicks the OK or Submit button, the form analyzes the user’s answers and presents its recommendations.

About the examples

This E-consultant helps managers decide how to deal with security violations by employees. Choices include a written warning, quarantine away from secure information, dismissal, or prosecution. This Web page replaces a complex, three-staged if-then diagram in the employee handbook.

Here is another E-consultant. It helps designers decide what access mechanisms to use in electronic documents.

The first example was built using Adobe Dreamweaver and JavaScript. The second example was built in PowerPoint and converted to HTML5 using iSpring Suite.