Website styles A Static Website is one that has web
pages stored on the server in the same form as the user will view
them. It is primarily coded in HTML (Hyper-text Markup Language). A
static website is also called a Classic website, a 5-page website or
a Brochure website because it simply presents pre-defined
information to the user. It may include information about a company
and its products and services via text, photos, Flash animation,
audio/video and interactive menus and navigation. This type of
website usually displays the same information to all visitors, thus
the information is static. Similar to handing out a printed brochure
to customers or clients, a static website will generally provide
consistent, standard information for an extended period of time.
Although the website owner may make updates periodically, it is a
manual process to edit the text, photos and other content and may
require basic website design skills and software. In summary,
visitors are not able to control what information they receive via a
static website, and must instead settle for whatever content the
website owner has decided to offer at that time. They are edited
using four broad categories of software: Text editors. such as
Notepad or TextEdit, where the HTML is manipulated directly within
the editor program WYSIWYG offline editors. such as Microsoft
FrontPage and Adobe Dreamweaver (previously Macromedia Dreamweaver),
where the site is edited using a GUI interface and the underlying
HTML is generated automatically by the editor software WYSIWYG
Online editors. Such as Wix [1] , Pagii [2] and Sproutbuilder [3] ,
where the any media rich online presentation like websites, widgets,
intro, blogs etc. are created on a flash based platform.
Template-based editors, such as Rapidweaver and iWeb, which allow
users to quickly create and upload websites to a web server without
having to know anything about HTML, as they just pick a suitable
template from a palette and add pictures and text to it in a
DTP-like fashion without ever having to see any HTML code. A Dynamic
Website is one that does not have web pages stored on the server in
the same form as the user will view them. Instead, the web page
content changes automatically and/or frequently based on certain
criteria.
