Website Types to Build

Website Types – If you decide to build a website you will need to make the correct decision on the type of website you will end up building and what technology you end up using.

There are a few methods and techniques you might need to learn before you delve into building your website and I hope the related info guides within this webpage help you through out this process.

1. HTML Driven Website

Generally this website consists of building all of your web pages in a html editor like Namo Web Editor. You don’t need to know any html but if yo use a quality webpage making software program this will make your job much easier. Most web sites online today are built using html and once you understand the process building your website will become a quick process.

2. Database Driven Website

Most of your large website types online today are using a database driven type of website which have debatable positives and negatives..

The positives of using a database driven website is:

  • Most come with an Admin Control Panel to manage your content.

The negatives of using a database driven website are:

  • Possible Security issues
  • Extra learning
  • Management of the database content
  • Harder to apply Search Engine Optimisation into Script Pages
  • Harder to change webhosts because scripts may need to be altered and the database content moved.

There are two things you need to know about Database driven website’s.

1. Scripting – You will need to decide what programming language you will use. By far the most popular today is
PHP which is an open source server side scripting language. In short this script relies on the server with the PHP
scripting engine to deliver what the script was designed to do. Traditionally this scripting language works hand in hand
with Linux and Unix operating system based servers. The other scripting language is ASP which is a Microsoft product
and requires a windows based server. This scripting language works similar to PHP.

ASP 2.0 is also becoming popular today.

2. Database Type – There are 2 popular types which suit the scripting languages mentioned above. The first is mysql
which is an open source database and works hand in hand with PHP.

The other is mssql database and works hand in hand with ASP.

From my experience both website types have great advantages but for someone who is new to building a
website its best to stick with a safe method and that’s building your website in html.

Ultimately in the end its your choice.