A Dynamic Website (also referred to as a database-driven site) requires web programming and database design. A dynamic website contains information and content that changes, depending on factors such as the viewer of the site, the time of the day, the time zone, or the native language of the country the viewer). The content of your site (text/images) is stored on a database or content management system. When the information is updated or changed within the database, it changes on the site.

When a user visits your site, data is passed to the server from the user’s browser. When a dynamic site is accessed, pages are generated on-the-fly (or in real-time) to the user based on this data from the visitor. Scripting code analyzed and interpreted on the web server and the resulting HTML is displayed to the visitor’s web browser. This means different content can be generated at different times of the day, or based on cookies (little pieces of data that a web server stores on a visitor’s computer), or environmental variables (what kind of browser is being used, what a user’s IP address is, or what page they visited prior to the current page).

This means many great things for yourself and your visitors. You can use a content management system to handle all of your files and data that would typically need to be updated on a regular basis such as news or products, or you can use your dynamic website for e-commerce purposes such as storing and updating products, and handling orders