Starting out to build a website as a developer, you will come across these two terminologies: Static and dynamic.
Static and dynamic websites are basically the two main types of websites, they describe the different types of websites you are developing and each determines the amount of code you need to write either to add interactivity or not.
In this article, we are going to be looking at the difference between a static and dynamic website, We will give you practical examples of each of the websites and also look at some points to enable you to choose which is better when developing a website.
Before we delve in, let’s clear the air on what static and dynamic websites are:
What is a Static Website?
It is the most basic type of website which is developed using plain HTML code ( sometimes called a flat page or a stationary page). It doesn’t require server-side scripting, just client-side like HTML and CSS.
When it comes to interactivity, static websites do not involve any interactivity features except for interactivity with hyperlinks, images, or graphics.
Generally, static websites are those websites where the content remains unchanged and any changes, additions, deletions, etc. we want to make to the contents can only be changed from the source code.
Every content on a static website is transferred to the user in exactly the form stored on the web server, which automatically displays the contents in the same format to every user who visits the webpage.
