Dynamic Web Sites 

Many sites from the last decade are static, but more and more people are realizing the advantages of having a Dynamic Web Site.  Dynamic Web Sites can make the most of your site by using functions for your visitors, and it comes with a database attached where you can store visitor information such as email addresses.  You can also send newsletters directly from your web site without purchasing a separate service such as Constant Contact®. 

Dynamic Web Sites provide a live user experience. Content (text, images, form fields, etc.) on a web page can change, in response to different contexts or conditions.

In Dynamic Web Sites, page content and page layout are created separately. The content is retrieved from a database and is placed on a web page only when needed or asked. The benefit of this is that it allows for quicker page loading, and it allows just about anyone, with limited or no web design experience, to update their own website via an administrative tool. This set-up is ideal for those who wish to make frequent changes to their websites including text and image updates, e.g. e-commerce.

Advantages of Dynamic Web Sites:

  • Much more functional web site
  • Much easier to update
  • New content brings people back to the site and helps in the search engines
  • Can work as a system to allow staff or users to collaborate

Disadvantages of Dynamic Web Sites: 

  • Slower/more expensive to develop
  • Hosting costs more due to large bandwidth 

When to use a Dynamic Web Site:

  • You have to change your main pages frequently.
  • Products/services your company offers changes frequently (this especially applies to stores).
  • You want to be able to access the web site and make changes to your text, graphics, photos, videos, products, etc.
  • The list of your products/services are too long.  Costs for developing web pages in a Static Web Site would cost more than building a database for your products in a Dynamic Web Site. 
  • You need a more complex ordering system (checking available items against stock, maintaining the stock, tracking orders,  paying online with automated credit card transactions.
  • You need "search" cababilities on your web site.
  • Need web site to handle the mapping of customer needs to available services.
  • Need web site to accept input from visitors.  In some cases, such input could automatically modify information in the database altering content on other web pages.
  • Your staff can collaborate on the web site and permissions can be set for each person to allow them certain access.
  • You want to acquire new, online customers or visitors to your web site.
  • You want to allow visitors to register on your web site and collect personal information from them such as email addresses.
  • You want to send your registered users newsletters directly from your web site without purchasing an outside service to do this for you (such as Constant Contact®.   
  • SEO is occurring all the time as users refresh content, in addition to completing the SEO exercises. 

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