DYNAMIC WEBSITES:

Dynamic sites are those where the content and design live separately. The content lives in a database that is placed on a webpage only when needed or asked. The benefit of this is that it allows for quicker page loading and it allows just about anyone, with limited or no web design experience, to update their own website via an administrative backend. This set up is ideal for those who wish to make frequent changes to their websites including text and image updates. Dynamic sites are also great for image galleries, online calendars or e-commerce.

There are two ways to create dynamic interactivity:

• Using client-side scripting to change interface behaviors within a specific web page, in response to mouse or keyboard actions or at specified timing events. In this case the dynamic behavior occurs within the presentation.

• Using server-side scripting to change the supplied page source between pages, adjusting the sequence or reload of the web pages or web content supplied to the browser. Server responses may be determined by such conditions as data in a posted HTML form, parameters in the URL, the type of browser being used, the passage of time, or a database or server state.

The result of either technique is described as a dynamic web page, and both may be used simultaneously.

To adhere to the first definition, web pages must use presentation technology called, in a broader sense, rich interfaced pages. Client-side scripting languages like JavaScript or ActionScript, used for Dynamic HTML (DHTML) and Flash technologies respectively, are frequently used to orchestrate media types (sound, animations, changing text, etc.) of the presentation. The scripting also allows use of remote scripting, a technique by which the DHTML page requests additional information from a server, using a hidden Frame, XMLHttpRequests, or a Web service.

Web pages that adhere to the second definition are often created with the help of server-side languages such as PHP, Perl, ASP or ASP.NET, JSP, and other languages. These server-side languages typically use the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) to produce dynamic web pages. These kinds of pages can also use, on client-side, the first kind (DHTML, etc.).

There are number of ways to maintain and update the website content. One of the most innovative method is to have dynamic websites with backend that enables the mangement of an organisation to update the content as and when required.

We specialise in the designing websites with complete backends to support the content creator.

Here are some of the advantages of a dynamic website:

	Content Management System [CMS] – you have a lot of information about your company such as news, events or products that you’d like to be able to share with the world and update yourself without having to pay for updates – this is a classic way to use a dynamic website.
	E- commerce site – could you sell your products through your website? This may be cheaper and easier than you think to use a dynamic website to update your products and take orders dynamically.
	Members database – allow people to sign up through your website and manage that information securely online using your administration interface.
	Deliver information to a wider audience – information stored in a database has more potential for delivering in an accessible format or using RSS.
	Dynamic Extranet – use your website to share information, discuss and provide documents in a secure area of your website that only your staff can access.
	Bin the paper or the Excel spreadsheet – if you currently have an outdated paper based way of capturing and storing information or store things in an offline database or spreadsheet – it may be worth considering streamlining and updating this process to make it easier for staff and customers to access this information.