[digi_DR]

Hi!!

Does anybody knows the difference between a dynamic web site and a static web site?

Please answer.. Thanks!!

[mike_m]

A static website, is just a collection of html pages. Not that this is a bad thing, but it is a pretty old fashioned (in internet terms anyway) way of creating a website. Especially if it has more than two pages..

A dynamic Site on the other hand, at it's most basic incarnation would use includes, so that say, the menu that appears on every page is only actually located in one file (so you only have to change it the once) and then whenever a page loads, it pulls in that code to display the menu.

Once you seperate the structure of your site from the data it presents and avoid duplicating data you're on the way.

HTH

By the way, do you work for http://www.digitalroom.com/ (the link in your sig) , if so, you really should know this already

[pgo]

To build on what Mike said - a static site is a collection of HTML files. A dynamic site uses a programming language like PHP or ASP and (usually) a database like MySQL or MSSQL.

Static is perfectly appropriate for small sites of a few pages, but once you get to more than that, it's best to go dynamic. I still build static sites; however, Apache/PHP/MySQL is next on my agenda. I can generally hack my way through a simple PHP script and get it working, but that's about it.