HTML Vs Database Driven CMS Websites
Written by Jason Monday, 04 May 2009 20:13
It's safe to say that HTML-only websites are a thing of the past. Internet users thankfully are no longer required to spend a great deal of time to debug the HTML code or to insert new line into the code. This bothersome task used to consume a lot of time and energy due to the nature of HTML that doesn't support scalability. As a direct result of the difficulty of this technology, people with less than average technical skills would always be on the lookout for a programmer or a web designer to bring changes to their websites. Also, the search engine rankings suffered due to the complications involved with maintaining static HTML code that's unclean and not SEO-friendly especially for beginners.
Today luckily this aforementioned technology is almost history and a new technology is gaining a foothold in the world of internet. The icons of the new era are content management systems, database-powered websites and state-of-the-art web applications, to name a few. It can be regarded as the era of newbies as beginners aren't required anymore to grasp fully the underlying technology to be able to manage powerful websites. In this time, it seems that every one has a blog and every company whether small or large has a website. Companies became very aware of the advantages of online presence and the potential a good looking and robust website can have on its bottom line. The advancement in internet technologies paved the way for small business owners who have great ambitions with regard to online presence to focus their efforts on growing their ventures and leave the web part to reliable automatic systems.
Today's webmasters manage their website from the comfort of a graphical rich and easy-to-use backend where they can change the layout or the content of their website in a matter of seconds. A modification on a single page can be performed on other pages as well with just a few clicks. No need to redo each page to maintain uniformity throughout the website. All these modifications are carried out via a password protected backend. After login, users can edit the content/appearance of their websites using an intuitive tool, a WYSWYG editor. Every part of the website is accessible through this interface including images. Furthermore, there are SEO tools included in the CMS package that allow users to enter Meta tags and Meta keywords to increase the visibility of web pages to search engine spiders.
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