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Static Vs. Dynamic Web PagesThe majority of the web pages on the internet today are static HTML pages. HTML pages are simple text files that are displayed by your browser upon request. Static pages are easily read by search engine spiders.Dynamic web pages are more complex and usually give the website visitors easier access to the information that they need. Setting cookies, creating member login areas, pulling product data from a database that is easily updated, maintaining a web site visitors session data to remember products that they have selected... Visitors find dynamically generated web pages to be useful because they are provided instant access to highly relevant information. Dynamic sites are also much easier to update and maintain. Adding new products and editing products in your online searchable catalog is as easy as filling out a form. This saves countless hours (and dollars) to update multiple static pages. Dynamic web pages are created using technologies like CGI, ASP, Cold Fusion, JSP, PHP etc. URL's of dynamically generated pages often contain question marks (?), percentage signs (%) and other symbols (&, + and $) or text (cgi-bin) making up the "query string". It used to be the case that web spiders could not read to the right of the question mark, however today most spiders can read a few url parameters (text after the question mark), but have a hard time when there are too many and therefore some pages on sites with many url parameters do not get spidered. Search Engines can't find your dynamic pages? Contact Site-Seeker today! With all of this in mind, it is important to figure out what type and the amount of information that your website will be communicating to you web site visitors. Sometimes a static website is the best approach because of the minimal information that will be presented, and in most cases a dynamic website is the right solution. |
