What is Difference between static and dynamic website?

Answer 1

Static Websites

Static means "constant--never changing". A static website contains Web pages with fixed content. Each page is coded in HTML and displays the same information to every visitor.

Dynamic Websites

dynamic is "changing". You can make dynamic changes to a database without having to shutdown the instance and restart for the changes to take effect. However, if you do not update the control file, when you shutdown and startup, the dynamic change is gone--it wasn't permanent.

• A site whose construction is controlled by an application server processed by server side scripts.

Answer 2

Static HTML is rendered once in the browser and never changed. Dynamic HTML (DHTML) may change as a result of conditions in a browser (e.g. a mouse click or pointer movement) without needing to fetch additional data from the server. For example, elements on the page may move or appear/disappear.

This is usually achieved through JavaScript (because it is supported on all major browsers) but can be done with any browser-supported scripting language that has access to the document's representation (commonly referred to as the Document Object Model (DOM)).

This term is not very clearly defined for some cases; for example changing the color of a link's contents when it is clicked or hovered over, or using CSS rules (such as a:hover) to show a submenu when the mouse hovers over a navigational menu. However, such cases are typically considered too simple to fall under the term DHTML.

Often, dynamic HTML is accompanied by asynchronous data retrieval (popularly known as Ajax), but technically the two techniques are separate and just happen to work well together, since the newly retrieved data needs to be displayed in the current document and thus the document changes.

Basic answer

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Static HTML simply is what it is. The page is displayed and that's it.

Dynamic HTML uses a scripting language (like JavaScript) to change the HTML based on input or events. Example: roll-over graphics or buttons.

Answer 3

Static web site never changes, it is always the same for every user. Static web site is usually made in HTML / css only.

Dynamic web site can change its contents eg for visitors from Europe, from USA etc. Website is written in advanced programming language (eg PHP).

Answer 4

A static webpage is written using HTML, and nothing (or little) else. Static pages contain the same information every time you visit them. Essentially, they're like a printed page in a book.

Dynamic pages have content that automatically updates itself. For instance, take the Answers.com homepage. The answers that are featured are updated all the time. And some of those decisions are made using a higher level language like ASP or PHP.

In the end, static pages have content that does not change. Dynamic pages have content that changes based off of programming that runs them.

Answer 5

Static economics shows the effects of single value at one point of time eg effect of increase in income to the demand whereas dynamic economics shows the effects of the multiple values that are in dynamic equilibrium with the variation of time eg. pass of the types of machines used by the industry from day ,week, month and years

Answer 6

Static pages are more static in nature, you cannot expand them with content where are dynamic pages keep changing with fresh content. Static pages do not contain server side coding and on the contrary dynamic pages do have server side coding. Dynamic pages also make use of databases where as static pages don't.

Answer 7

A model that is either fixed (static) or a model that can change at any time (dynamic).