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There are a variety of advantages to a database driven site for both the visitor and the site owner/administrator. A well designed site would have a number of different ways of navigating through the information or searching it. As the user navigates and is effectively applying criteria they can be presented with only valid options so it's quicker and easier for them to find what they want. Huge advantages can be found when it comes to maintaining this kind of website. Page templates are created that simply define how information from the database is displayed. Take a small company with perhaps 50 products. If each product had it's own page that would 50 pages in a static site. Using a database driven approach it would be just one page. In addition it's also quite possible to have special admin pages that staff can access to change site content using just a browser with no training required of special web authoring software. |
