Designing a Web site

Static vs. Dynamic

empty Wikipedia on web design, defines static and dynamic pages as:

Static pages don’t change content and layout with every request unless a human (web master or programmer) manually updates the page.
Dynamic pages adapt their content and/or appearance depending on the end-user’s input or interaction or changes in the computing environment (user, time, database modifications, etc.)

Dynamic page modifications can occur either on the user-side (e.g., Javascript), or server-side (e.g., database).

Many older web sites were originally developed using static pages. Newer sites may be dynamically generated. Dynamic pages, especially database-driven sites, would be recommended for use if there is a high volume of information to be presented that has constant updates. As I’m trying to address simple web sites, I’ll be sticking to static page development in this article, with a few digressions with Javascript modifications on static pages.

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