A channel rendering script is so named because it is the page that gets displayed (or rendered) when the URL matches that of a channel.
The beauty of channel rendering scripts is that they work even though the channel has no postings. Using a channel rendering script, you cut two steps from the process—creating the template gallery item and creating the posting.
Channel rendering scripts are usually used to display a page that shows how the channel is positioned in the web hierarchy when no postings exist for the user to peruse. Another popular use of channel rendering scripts is in the implementation of framed sites as we shall see later.
Channel rendering scripts provide an alternative to assigning a default posting to the channel. Let's use this technique to create the summary page.
Normally, you would simply create a new web form and build the channel rendering script from scratch. Since we have already built a working script...