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<\/a><\/p>\nStatic content. \u00a0Once the lifeblood of the World Wide Web. \u00a0Amazing. \u00a0Now it has been relegated to something of an\u00a0inconvenience.<\/p>\n
Think back to the last truly static page you visited recently – I bet you probably can’t even think of one! \u00a0Even pages that appear to be static, generally have at least some dynamic part.<\/p>\n
So what’s the difference between static and dynamic.<\/p>\n
Static vs Dynamic<\/h2>\n
Static web pages are, well, static! \u00a0(Yes, sorry, I had to state the obvious!). \u00a0To go into a bit more detail though, they’re comparable to the digital\u00a0equivalent\u00a0of a book. \u00a0With a book, you pick it up, you read it – and to all intents and purposes that’s it, you’re done. \u00a0You can’t interact via the book with the author. \u00a0You can’t leave a comment on a page you don’t like (apart from profanity you might right in pencil on the page if that floats your boat – but that doesn’t count as everyone else with the book can’t see it in their copy!). \u00a0You can’t vote on a poll in a book. \u00a0It’s static. \u00a0Just like a static web page (basically) consists of text and, nowadays, images and multimedia.<\/p>\n
Static pages also do include hyperlinks. \u00a0Now, some people would argue that these are a dynamic feature – as it is a response to a user action that occurs at a user defined time (i.e. the link is followed when it is clicked). \u00a0However, this would be a misconception to think of it this way. \u00a0Hyperlinks don’t make a page dynamic – they are still static – think of hyperlinks as the book\u00a0equivalent of turning the page.<\/p>\n
So What Makes a Page Dynamic?<\/h2>\n
This big questions has quite an easy answer to find. \u00a0Look around this post. \u00a0At the top right we have a search bar. \u00a0The search bar allows you to search the content of this blog. \u00a0Let’s say you want to search for cupcakes. \u00a0Now, unfortunately, we’re going to have issues here! \u00a0Due to the DPS Computing blog only covering technology and computing issues, it is with great sadness that we have to inform you that there hasn’t been any recent technological or computing discoveries due to\/because of\/including cupcakes (yes, I know, very tragic – we’ll keep our eyes open though! ;)). \u00a0If you type cupcakes into the search bar and then search – you get no results.<\/p>\n
Use the same search bar to search for something techified……. like OS X – and wham bam – you’ve got results. \u00a0Believe it or not, whether you search for cupcakes or OS X the search results page is the same.<\/p>\n
How can that be? \u00a0Well the search results page is dynamic. \u00a0So just because the search results page is the same no matter what is searched for, doesn’t mean to say that, on a dynamic page, the content<\/strong><\/span> of \u00a0search results page has to be the same.<\/p>\n Below each of our posts on DPS Computing there is a ‘comments’ box. \u00a0All registered users and visitors can post in there, share discussion and we can all see what each other is saying. \u00a0When this post is first posted, the page will load with no comments. \u00a0If someone leaves a comment, the page will then load with one comment at the bottom of the post (for everyone). \u00a0It’s the same page that has been loaded – just with different content (aka a dynamic page).<\/p>\n And that introduction brings us quite nicely onto the million dollar question (yes, yes, I know it should be the million pound question but it just doesn’t have quite the same ring to it!).<\/p>\n Does static content have a future on the Internet? \u00a0Unfortunately there isn’t just a simple yes or no answer to this question.<\/p>\n Static content does have a future on the Internet – but not\u00a0independently. \u00a0Static content on the ‘net used to be the only type of content. \u00a0Dynamic content was still a few years off at this time – mainly due to the lack of technologies \/ languages available for the ‘new’ Internet that supported dynamic content, the\u00a0relatively\u00a0low spec of computers and the painfully slow bandwidths of Internet connections generally available (56k anyone? \u00a0How about 16.6k? ;)). \u00a0At the beginning, even (static) pictures were discouraged due to the technological restrictions. \u00a0Static content existed in its own static universe on the Internet – it lived independantly.<\/p>\n As time has gone on things have got more dynamic….. but the static constructs (text and images for example), still form the basic building blocks of all web pages. \u00a0But now the static content is surrounded in a dynamic shell. \u00a0A blending of the static and dynamic universes has lead to the kind of Internet we have today – useful and resourceful while interesting and interactive.<\/p>\n Interactivity and dynamic features and capabilities of websites are only going to continue to increase – which can only be a good thing for the Internet and its many millions of users. \u00a0However, the static features that started it all decades ago will still always form a part of the Internet and modern pages – no matter how much dynamic content grows. \u00a0The static components may become\u00a0comparatively\u00a0smaller, but they’ll always be there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Static content. \u00a0Once the lifeblood of the World Wide Web. \u00a0Amazing. \u00a0Now it has been relegated to something of an\u00a0inconvenience. 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