| "Data Driven" Web Sites What is a Data Driven Web Site? A Data Driven Web Site is a Multi-page Web Site but either the entire site or part of it is built on-the-fly from a "database" (computerized storage) of information. As your customers request pages from your web site, a custom program generates them from the information (page content) stored in the database. Who needs a Data Driven Web Site? This type of site is often best for businesses that need to have large volumes of information to present to their customers and potential customers. It is also best for web sites that have frequent changes to their web site information. A Data Driven Web Site typically costs slightly more for the initial web development and programming. However, the advantage of a data driven site is that it allows for frequent changes and additions to the information served to your customers at minimal cost and typically with no additional web development required. It is best suited to business that will have large volume of dynamically changing information - so that the added initial development cost is offset in the future by reduced maintenance costs and by the benefit of being able to make very fast changes to the site. If you need to collect large amounts of information from your customers dynamically as well as distribute it, you may need to consider the Transaction Based Web Site. Data Driven Web Site Features:  Professional graphical design
Most or all pages generated on the fly from dynamic contentBack end database to allow for easy changes to deliverable content Changes to content can be made without updating individual pages for cost savingsData Driven Web Development Examples: | Certain portions of the following sites are a "Data Driven" while the remainder of the site is a multi-page or other type of web site. (Note that this site also features e-commerce). |
|  Spa and Salon - Employee Listing
| Moodz Spa and Salon (Employees display) | In the above Employee sample, all of the details as to which employees work in which locations, at which jobs, their photos, and their skill summaries are all stored in a database. Adding a skill, an employee, changing a location, or modifying a skill summary can all be done without any additional web programming. Employees can be added to the system typically in less than five minutes (as opposed to 15 - 30 minutes for a typical non-data-driven web site. | | Spa and Salon - Services Listing | Moodz Spa and Salon (Services display) | In the Services example, All of the service categories and the details of describing each service are pulled from a database and displayed on-the-fly. Adding a new service category, or new detailed services, or changing the title, description, price, etc of any service merely requires a change to the database - the next customer in automatically receives the latest information. |
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