FACTS ABOUT STATIC AND DYNAMIC WEBSITE DESIGN
One of the things a modern Web designer has to decide is what basic kind of Web page to create. A website (also written Web site or simply site) is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. It basically has two types – the Static and Dynamic.
The Static website is the simplest way to show your product or business online. It is the one that has web pages stored on the server in the format that is sent to a client web browser. It is primarily coded in Hypertext Markup Language, HTML. This type of website usually displays the same information to all visitors. Similar to handing out a printed brochure to customers or clients, a static website will generally provide consistent, standard information for an extended period of time.
The Dynamic website is one that changes or customizes itself frequently and automatically, based on certain criteria. It can have two types of dynamic activity: Code and Content. Dynamic code is invisible or behind the scenes and dynamic content is visible or fully displayed. The main purpose of a dynamic website is automation. A dynamic website can operate more effectively, be built more efficiently and is easier to maintain, update and expand. It is much simpler to build a template and a database than to build hundreds or thousands of individual, static HTML web pages.
PROS AND CONS OF STATIC AND DYNAMIC WEB DESIGN
STATIC WEBSITE DESIGN ADVANTAGES
One of the major advantages of Static web design is flexibility and low cost during the construction phase. Since this type of website is done based on HTML codes it is easier to maintain and wonderful benefit for a small business owner that wants to have a simple website in which the content will not be frequently changed.
STATIC WEBSITE DESIGN DISADVANTAGES
The major problem with Static website design is it does not allow viewers to have control over the information regarding the product or business. Although it is cheaper to construct it will be very expensive to update since you have to redo the coding on every page. So, for example, let's say you have a 10 page website and each page is static and your address is hard-coded in each page. If your business were to move, you would need to pay the designer to update your address on each of the ten pages. Now imagine your site was made up of 100 pages. It will be very expensive.
DYNAMIC WEB DESIGN ADVANTAGE
The major advantage of Dynamic web design is it caters user’s need and demands, thus making it more popular and well visited that the static site. A dynamic web site will have all recent contents on a regular basis by administrators with supplies of all the information of the product and its various aspects. Its web contents always maintain a professional outlook for the user. It is also easy and less expensive to update than the static site.
DYNAMIC WEB DESIGN DISADVANTAGE
Dynamic websites are often not indexed well by search engines than static sites. This type of site usually puts more load on the server you are running therefore you may need a faster server for this type of site. Another thing with Dynamic site is it can be time consuming to develop.
SO WHAT TYPE OF WEBSITE IS BEST?
Personally I would prefer Dynamic Web Design since this type of site interacts with the users and it can cater unique features thus it will be more popular and can easily attract viewers. Although there are some disadvantages with Dynamic Web Design they are greatly outweighed by the advantages. In addition to that, the disadvantages can be solved, like any problem.
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