What is the difference in static and dynamic web pages?
In computer terminology, dynamic usually means capable of action and/or change, while static means fixed. Both terms can be applied to a number of different types of things, such as programming languages (or components of programming languages), Web pages, and application programs. The majority of the web pages on the internet today are static HTML pages. HTML pages are simple text files that are displayed by your browser upon request. Static pages are easily read by search engine spiders. Dynamic web pages are more complex and usually give the web site visitors easier access to the information that they need. Setting cookies, creating member login areas, pulling product data from a database that is easily updated, maintaining a web site visitors session data to remember products that they have selected. Dynamic web pages are created using technologies like CGI, ASP, Cold Fusion, JSP, PHP, etc.
