Overview of Dynamic and Static Sites
- By Alan Smith
- Published 06/3/2010
- Internet
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Alan Smith
Based in Los Angeles, Spinx provides professional website design and web development services to clients in the LA area, Orange County, and Bay area, as well as across the United States and around the world. We are a full service IT and web development firm offering a wide range of services to handle all your online needs.
View all articles by Alan SmithMost of the websites that
you can find online today are either dynamic or static websites. Both these
techniques of have certain advantages and disadvantages based on which they are
chosen. The right technique you should employ for your website d
One can find lot of static sites on the net that have basic HTML at the core of
their pages. Just because so many sites online are static does not make the
static design best by default. When web developers zero in on a particular
technique for their web development, they go through carefully the requirements
and how good they are met with whatever technique they are considering.The major advantage for employing static
design is that it has high rate of success with search engines compared to
dynamic websites.
The content of dynamic website change based on user inputs or actions. This
makes it difficult for the search engine to list down the pages as it is not
able to properly simulate user actions on dynamic sites. Compared with dynamic
sites, static sites are easy to develop. For static sites basic knowledge of
HTML is enough. In contrast, dynamic websites can be created by using program
scripts or programming language. Many web developers use static pages to aim at
search engines or for generating revenue by content listing.
In the current scenario, dynamic sites are gaining popularity are very common on the net. The ability of dynamic sites to provide interactive experience to the users is reason behind the growth in number of dynamic sites. This enables better content management and the content can even displayed on certain user specific criteria. This creates interest in your site for the user.
Dynamic websites usually are aimed at specific set of users who would make use of membership facility. This technique also helps you to generate and show user specific data and change the content on user actions. Though this technique of web design does not favor well with search engines as they find it difficult to index the pages in your website, dynamic sites do make people come back thus increasing the traffic.