Try a Database-Driven Web Site

What exactly is a database driven web site? What are it's advantages?

Most web sites consist of a set of individual web pages written in HTML. Updating information must be done on each individual page. This means that each time you need to make a change to a page you will need to go back to your designer, agree the changes, check and confrim you are happy with the results and then get the designer to update your web site - when he/she can fit it in. This costs you and your business time and money.

A different way of organizing and maintaining web sites is through the use of a data base that stores the web page information. This is called a database-driven web site. Instead of manually building each web page the page is dynamically created from information requested from the database.

A database driven web site has the advantage that the owner of the data only needs to update the database and not worry about updating individual web pages. There is no need to understand HTML or scripting languages. You just type or cut and paste the new information into a form via your web browser and this is added to the database and then to your live web site.

This allows you to make changes on the fly yourself, put up important news, put up special offers and even let your customers know the day to day activities of your business , anytime and from anywhere in the world!

It's easy for us to tell you the benefits and wonders of database driven sites but how about seeing one in action. If you would like to try a live databse driven web site use the link below and you will find in no time at all you are driving what could be your own web site.