Database Driven Website - by David Lahiri
October 6, 2009 by Website Design Bournemouth
Filed under Website Design
The solution lies in creating a ‘Database driven website’, through which web pages are created dynamically which further gives a web site visitor an up-to-dated view of information stored in the database. When the information in the database is updated, site visitors will immediately see the changes that have been made.
There are many sites, which are bounded up by a dry, outdated design because, rewriting the hundreds of existing HTML files and implementing it into the new design would be a very time consuming job that no enterprise can invest. The only solution to this is a database-driven site design, which portrays the collection of information organized and presented to serve a specific purpose.
If you want to showcase hundreds or thousands of items/ products it can become a very tedious job to maintain a static web page for each item and in such situations a database is very essential. On a database-driven site, a web page is put together drawing on different fields in a database. Since the pages are generated again each time the user clicks on the link to go to them, a database-driven site is dynamic as opposed to static.
When we create a Database driven website, we see to it that our clients can do their own maintenance via a set of web-based data entry forms or by working directly with the database which is customized according to the clients needs. We design the web page in such a way so that it is connected to the database, which in case of any transformation, changes accordingly and automatically without interference from the programmers end.
Professional database driven website design is a cost effective method of developing a website which stores a large amount of information. Instead of designing all the static pages in advance, it is better to produce dynamic pages, which generate the relevant information requested by the viewer.
The most popular database management system is MySQL, because it is free, and flexible, and most web hosting Companies have it installed. This can be used in combination with a language such as PHP or Cold Fusion to create a website which interacts with the database. An E-commerce site is a bright example of the use of a database to store the client’s online orders and billing information.
PHP is possibly the most popular of languages for interacting with MySQL databases. It can be easily used to create web pages for your site dynamically. This means that, rather than a site consisting of many static or unchanging web pages, each page is generated based on information in your database, at the time the page is accessed by a user.
The primary scripting languages that we use include JavaScript, ASP/VBScript, Cold Fusion, Perl and PHP. Our primary databases are Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, MySQL, and Oracle.
The Database driven websites that we at CWD Web Design Company develop are very efficiently developed because we see to it that the site is dynamically generated or customized to display the information that is relevant to each visitor. We develop the website in an interactive way and store information the user enters, for use in the rest of their visit to the website, or for use in other activities
David Lahiri
Web Architect and SEO for last 6 yrs
Amazing And Free Web Design Tips - by Steve Hill
October 6, 2009 by Website Design Bournemouth
Filed under Website Design
In this article I give some amazing tips about web design and web promotion and its for free. I hope you enjoy the read.
Free web design tips.
There is no longer a need for people to spend hundreds of pounds to have a website designed and built. I believe you should only have to pay around £100 to have a standard or simple website built. The amount of competition in the internet web design sector means that there are some great deals available, in the next paragraph I will explain where to look for these bargains.
My advice on where to find these cheap website design deals would be by looking on internet auction websites such as ebay, internet search engines or in the Yellow Pages. Asking friends and family and also looking in the local and free press is also worth a go.
Free website promotion tips.
I would imagine that most people who own a website are looking at ways to increase the amount of traffic to their website or an increase in their PR rating. In general the higher the page rank you have the more visitors you are likely to get.
In my opinion the best way to increase this page rank is by building up the number of backward links your website has. You can do this by e-mailing other websites preferably in the same business sector as your own and asking if they would be willing to swap links with your site. This can be quite a tedious job however and it might be worth your while looking into a program such as linkmetro.
Writing articles is probably the best way of obtaining backward links, these are also links of more value as they are one-way links. By submitting these articles to article websites, other webmasters are then able to use your article on their website, thus giving you an extra link. This is because you are able to add a link to your website in the artice in the resources or author bio section at the bottom of the page.
You may also want to consider a pay per click program such as google adwords. This is where you pay to have an advert which will appear on the right side of the search results. This would be under the sponsored results of the google search engine for a specific key phrase. Always remember not to spend more on the advertising than you are likely to earn from the website.
If you would like to earn extra money from your website you may want to consider google adsense. This is where google put ads onto your website. When your visitors click on the ads you get paid.
Stephen Hill runs a speech centre in Birmingham, England. He has a number of of websites at:
