What is website | Type of website

Admin-DM August 01, 2021

Website 

A website is a collection of digital documents, primarily HTML files and multimedia files, that are linked together and that exist on the internet under the same domain. In other word, A group of web pages that follow the same theme and are connected together with hyperlinks is called a website. The first page of website is called home page of that website. 

Websites can be classified into two types. 

  1. Static website. 
  2. Dynamic website. 

Static Website 

  1. Static web page contain fixed code, the content of each page does not change unless it is manually updated by the webmaster. 
  2. A static website is primarily coded in Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). 
  3. Appearance beyond basic HTML website is controlled using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. 
  4. Images are commonly used for the effective appearance and also for the main content. 
  5. If audio or video plays automatically, and then it is considered as Static content. 

Advantages of static website 

  1. Quick developing time. 
  2. Cheap development cost. 
  3. Host is inexpensive / affordable. 

Disadvantages of static website 

  1. Not as useful to the user. 
  2. Content can become outdated. 

Dynamic Website 

  1. A Dynamic website is one in which the web pages changes or customizes itself frequently and automatically. 
  2. Server-side dynamic pages are generated by computer code that produces the HTML and CSS. 
  3. There is a wide range of scripting languages and web servers that are available to generate dynamic web servers and scripting languages such as CGI, Java Servlets and Java Server Pages (JSP), Active Server Pages(ASP) and Cold Fusion (CFML) are some of the examples. 
  4. A dynamic website can display the current state of the communication between users, monitor a changing situation, or provide information that is required by an individual user. 
  5. JavaScript code is used to instruct the web browser how to interactively modify the page contents at client side.

Advantages of dynamic website 

  1. A highly functional website. 
  2. Very easy to update. 
  3. More than one user can develop/work on the site. 

Disadvantages of dynamic website 

  1. Takes longer time to develop. 
  2. More costly to develop. 
  3. Cost more to host. 

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