Static Website & Dynamic Website

August, 17 2010

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Dynamic website is a website that is organized by content and layout that hold a large amount of information. This type of website is called Dynamic because the content can be modified by a special system designed to change the appearance on the Dynamic Website. Websites that are created using server language such as PHP, Perl, ASP, NET, JSP, ColdFusion are examples of Dynamic website. This type of website is perfect for E-Commerce website that requires continuous data update. Dynamic website can be easily maintained by using Content Management System (CMS).

Static website is a type of website that does not allow the content to be altered. Once the website is created and online, static website cannot be change unless it is changed manually by changing the programming language of the website. This causes the website to be less interactive and looks more like an online brochure because the information provided is very limited.

Listed below are the list of the advantages and disadvantages of Dynamic Website and Static Website:

Dynamic Website		Static Website
Advantages	Disadvantages	Advantages	Disadvantages
More Interactive	More complex, and therefore not optimized for Search Engines	Easier to program a static website	Less interactive website
Content can be updated and changed easily		Can be viewed directly using a browser without an application server	Static content, the content is usually not updated often
Use Dynamic HTML (DHTML)		Easier for website development using HTML programming language	Limited interactivity with user
Uses a programming server to change the data			Not using database
Able to use Content Management System (CMS) to change the content of the website			Not using PHP Programming language for the website
Website content and website layout are usually separated, therefore the loading for the page is faster
Able to make use of databases to store the content of the website