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Static Websites vs Dynamic Websites – Whats the Difference – Which one to Choose<\/strong><\/h1>\n

In this blog we are gonna read and understand the difference between static website and dynamic websites, nowadays there’s so many different ways that you can design a website and everybody vying for your attention so if you were to go upto 10 developer and ask the question how do I build my website; then you can probably gonna get 10 different answers and not only that for each answer there’s gonna be like five or ten different frameworks, that will help you do it; so the problem nowadays isn’t designing a website, how you do it and I think for a lot of people especially companies who aren’t like full-on developers it can be a little paralyzing like when there’s all of these options and everybody’s telling you different ways to do different things it can almost discourage you from building a website in the first place. So the question becomes how do you weed through all of these different voices and these different people pulling you in the different directions telling you to do different things. Well in this blog we are gonna give you first step to being able to decide how to design your website and we try to make you understand the difference between the two main types of websites.<\/p>\n

Basics of Static Website Design v Dynamic Website Design<\/h1>\n

There are basically two main types of design that you can choose from when developing a website<\/p>\n

i Static website design<\/p>\n

ii Dynamic website design<\/p>\n

BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATIC WEBSITE DESIGN & DYNAMIC WEBSITE DESIGN<\/strong><\/p>\n

A static site is one that is usually written in plain HTML and what is in the code of the page is what is displayed to the user.<\/p>\n

A dynamic site is one that is written using a server-side scripting language such as PHP, ASP, JSP, or Coldfusion. In such a site the content is called in by the scripting language from other files or from a database depending on actions taken by the user.<\/p>\n

Advantages of Static & Dynamic websites<\/h2>\n

Static websites – Merits<\/h3>\n

Flexibility is the main advantage of a static site, every page can be different if desired, to match the layout to different content, and the designer is free to put in any special effects that a business\/ client may ask for in a unique way on different pages. This allows flexible theme creation.<\/p>\n

The second and most important advantage is high security, there is no security concerns as there is no user login, registration page.<\/p>\n

Example: An author may want a different theme for a different book and associated pages or perhaps for a series of books, in order to match the cover designs or the context of the stories.<\/p>\n

Cost is generally lower up-front than a dynamic site or we can say even very cheap or can be hosted free.<\/p>\n

Static websites – DeMerits<\/h3>\n

The main problem with any static site appears when you wish to update the content. Unless you are conversant with HTML and the design methods used in the site then you have to go back to the web designing company or website designer who has created the website to have any content changes made. This may be perfectly fine when a new page is required which needs design input, but if all you want to do is change some text then it can be a nuisance for both client and designer.<\/p>\n

The second main problem is scale-ability. If you wish to sell products on your site and you have a lot of them then you may have to construct individual pages for each one, which can take considerable time, effort and cost.<\/p>\n

Costs – there are ongoing costs for updating the content.<\/p>\n

Dynamic websites – Merits<\/h3>\n

The main advantages of dynamic sites are that by connecting them to databases you can easily pull in information in an organised and structured way to create product pages or categories of related products sorted in a variety of different ways depending on how the user wants to view them.<\/p>\n

This ability to connect to a database means that you can also create a\u00a0content management system\u00a0– an interface which allows the client to input and manage data via a web-based series of administration pages. That content can be text for their pages and images to go along with the text, or items in their product range with categories, specifications, short and long descriptions, images, etc. In both these cases it can be as simple or as complex as the client requires.<\/p>\n

There are little or no ongoing costs unless there is a change in the basic design or an extra capability added.<\/p>\n

Dynamic websites – DeMerits<\/h3>\n

The design of a dynamic site is more fixed than a static one because many of the pages are essentially a template into which data and content is poured to create multiple pages of a similar type. So for instance all your product pages will be essentially the same page layout with different data being displayed. While some customization capability can be built in it is usually quite limited, such a selecting from a set of pre-defined options. Individual layout changes to particular pages are not usually possible.<\/p>\n

Costs are higher initially than for a static site, and additional functionality may also cost more, particularly if it’s something that wasn’t envisaged originally and requires re-writing of the core code or database.<\/p>\n

Who can Use Static Website Design:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n