What is a Dynamic Website ? Basic tutorial

Dynamic mean changing in content according to user needs. Dynamic website contains information that changes according to user request like time of day, native language of country and many other factors.

What is a Dynamic Website?

Dynamic website consist on a scripting (a code snippet) server-side script or client-side script to generate dynamic (changing) contents or combination of both scripts. 

In dynamic website contents be located in web hosting server when a user request a page then server generates that page and send back to user. Dynamically generated webpage may or may not be same every time. 

Script? Scripting?

Script is a simple bit of code of any programming language to do some task.
Scripting mean writing a complete task to do using any programming language.

There are two type scripting used in dynamic websites.

Client-Side scripting.

Client-side scripting mean a web page change in response to user action within the webpage without going on server. To do so user’s web browser download web content form server, process the code that embedded in this web page and then display contents to user.

Client-side scripting languages are JavaScript and jQuery etc.

Server-side scripting.

Server-side scripting mean a web page is generated on server and send back to user. Server-side contents generated on server like login page, from submission and shopping cart etc. This page response when it submitted to web server. 

Server-side scripting languages are PHP, Dot net and Ruby etc.

Advantages of dynamic websites.

Website management becomes easy with a Content Management System.

Easy update content without any programming language knowledge like PHP.

Design and layout can be changed independently of content.

Services such as online-shops, paying by credit card can be done with dynamic website.

Disadvantages of dynamic websites.

A little slower than static websites.

Developing a Content Management System is time-consuming.

As pages are not live and generate upon user request dynamic webpages are less visible for search engines.

Dynamic websites plus point 

Mostly dynamic website work with a CMS now days there is no need to worry for CMS as there are many free open source CMS are available like Drupal, joomla and Wordpress etc.

Read -----> What is Wordpress? Blogging platform or CMS? 

What is next?

That was a simple tutorial about dynamic website soon will be back with new tutorial on

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