TYPES OF WEBSITES

(STATIC & DYNAMIC WEBSITES)

Designed By: Shailja SharmaWeb Education Academy

Introduction

We are all familiar with that web pages are the main platforms of a

website where we find all the information regarding a product or

service.

People who are not familiar with web technology often

misunderstand these two terms namely static web pages and

dynamic pages.

Static Web Pages Static Web pages display the exact same information whenever

anyone visits it.

Static Web pages do not have to be simple plain text. They can

feature detailed multimedia design and even videos.

Static web pages are useful for that materials and contents that are

rarely need to be revised or updated.

There are many advantage of static web page in sense that they are

quick and cheap to develop and there hosting is also inexpensive.

Dynamic Web Pages

Dynamic Web pages are capable of

producing different content for different

visitors from the same source code file.

A dynamic Web page is not necessarily

better than a static Web page.

In server side scripting web pages

changes whenever a web page is

loaded.

Difference b/w Both

In static web pages the theme and content of web pages remained

fixed and in dynamic web pages they changed according to run

time.

Browsing and loading of static web pages are more quicker than

dynamic web pages because unlike dynamic web pages they do not

required the request of server.

Difference b/w Both

Changing the content in static web

pages is a difficult task because you

have to develop and upload a new

page while in dynamic web pages

server application do this

automatically.

Difference b/w Both

If file extension of a URL is in .htm or .html then it is a static web

pages. While if it is in .php, .asp and .jsp then it is the example of

dynamic web pages.

Difference b/w Both

Static web pages are created through HTML

language while dynamic web pages are

created by the usage of PHP, JavaScript and

Action script languages.

Static web pages plan is an easy and cheap

method if you wants to create a static and

non updating web pages. While dynamic

web pages method is advisable if you have

plan to update the content and material

frequently.

Difference b/w Both