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Do you find you Website hard to update and manage? Do you find that your visitors are leaving your site too quickly? Last but not least, are you not getting the repeat traffic and sales that you would like to see? If you answered yes to all of the above three questions, then you most likely have a static Website.
We don’t want to get too technical and throw at you words that may go over your head, but if you had to know what a static Website basically is, it is a website which does not respond dynamically to each visitor. It is typically a promotional Website that remains constant between each update.Let’s have a look at an example of a static Website:
And they usually requires the right technical skills or a web developer to make changes for you, making hard to update and manage. Let us have a look at an example of a static Website:
This is a static Website which sells books and DVD’s about pottery but does not really engage the visitor very well. Nor does it respond dynamically to each visitor. For instance, a visitor may not be able to buy from this Website online (i.e. there is no shopping cart software) nor can the visitor have an account where he may view his orders and such.
You may have already figured out by now that a dynamic Website is one that responds dynamically to each visitor, and is easier to update and manage with only basic technical skills. We took a look at a dynamic Website, so let’s have a look at a dynamic one too:
This is a dynamic Website that sells chocolates online and enables the visitor to ass products to a basket and purchase it online, whereas afterwards, the order get processed in a database making it easy for the Website owner to complete the order.
Nope. They are not all the same! In fact, they differ in the degree of functionality and scalability. You may have been sold on a what may seem a good dynamic Website for your online store, and then find out later on that you have to manually enter all of the products into the database.
What if you have 1000 or more products? This will take you days! If you are setting up an online store using a dynamic Website, then you must have features such as the products import tool, where you can just import a huge excel sheet of your products into the database and voila, you’ve got an online store ready to sell! Here is one of our clients who has many products and has imported them into his online store using the import tool.
So be sure to ask your Website provider, especially if you are setting up an online store with it, if they are also providing an products import tool to avoid manually entering in products all day long.
January 13th, 2010
Not sure I agree with everything written, but some good points made.