Many web sites are constructed by combining data from a database into web pages that display that data. A news web site, for example, may have a web page that has areas for the main stories, and another area for the secondary articles, etc. The web site then communicates with the database, retrieves the article text, and then places the content in the appropriate spot in the web page. The end result is a fully completed web page, created by combing the web page with the data from the database.

Database Design

Out of Web Site! has extensive experience in developing databases using SQL Server, MySQL, and Access. If you have a project that requires a database, then we can design the entire database for you, and then integrate it into your web site. Or if you have an existing database, we can integrate it into your web site as well. Combining a database with a web site is one of the best ways to create a highly sophisticated web site.

Database Driven Web Sites

The reason why a database driven web site is so powerful is because it is very easy to update content, or add new content to the web site. There's no team of web designers cranking out new web pages - it's all done automatically by retrieving information from the database and constructing a new web page when one is requested. This makes it very easy to create a large amount of web pages automatically.

Dynamic Content

A database driven web site is called a dynamic web site since the content is added dynamically from the database, rather than manually by a person. For web sites with a large volume of content, or content that needs to be searched or sorted by criteria, a dynamic database driven site is usually required. An online store, for example, is almost always database driven since it is much easier to find products according to the users search criteria.

 

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