What types of websites are there ?
Basically we can identify three types of website 1. Static site manually updated – these are generally written using HTML. Such sites are modified by editing the HTML code of the actual page. Advantages • Simple • Quick to develop • Can be hosted on ‘free’ ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) • Inexpensive Disadvantages • Inflexible • Pages have to be manually updated and uploaded to the ISP • Requires a degree of HTML knowledge • Are difficult to maintain once the site becomes larger than 10 pages. 2. Dynamic Database Driven Site – Are written using some scriptiing language such as PHP, ASP (Active Server Pages) or Coldfusion in conjuction with a database. The website consists of a series of ‘templates’. Whenever a users requests a page of the website, the relevant template executed and displays the required data from the database. Advantages • Large websites can be maintained very easily. For example if you require a webiste to sell products the code required to ‘run’ the website will
