Website Design Ideas

Website Type?

There are three website types:

• Content (information)


• E-Commerce (online sales)


• Interaction (Blogs, Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, and gaming sites).

Website types are implemented as dynamic or static:

• Dynamic websites have frequently changing content or interact with the visitor.  Dynamic websites typically use server side programming to generate HTML code as requested.


• Static websites are written in pure HTML perhaps with a bit of JavaScript and only change when manually updated.

It's common to see combinations of the three types as well as combinations of dynamic and static.  It's important to understand what they are are and what works for you!

Content or information websites may be dynamic or static and the implementation depends upon how frequently the website information changes.   News sites and search engines are dynamic database driven websites to allow rapid information update.   Many corporate websites are static but that is changing rapidly.

E-commerce sites are almost always dynamic allowing for frequent product changes, pricing changes, sales and inventory updates.  Simple e-commerce transactions like membership applications and online payment may be interactive while the main website is still static.

Interaction sites (Blogs, Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, and gaming sites) are dynamic.

Websites can be a combination of Content, E-Commerce and Interactive as well as a combination of dynamic and static.   It's common to see a combination of dynamic and static implementations implementations and and combination of types.  Because of this, more website owners are moving toward dynamic pages.

Pictures and graphics are always good to liven up a website.  You should have at least some because the phrase "one picture is worth a thousand words" is as true now as when it was coined.

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