Static vs. Dynamic vs. Blog websites

The first question you should ask your self before starting to build your website is, "what kind of website do I need?"

If you want to build a small website (few pages) that doesn't need a lot of updating, for example writing about history or if you have a small business and you offer few products and/or services, in this case what you need is a Static website.

A Static website is a collection of HTML files (each file is one page) that are saved on the server and doesn't change at all, when a page needs updating its HTML file is opened and edited.

All you need to know when making a Static website is HTML and if you don't, you can use some WYSIWYG HTML editors like FrontPage and Dreamweaver.

Dynamic websites are used for frequently updated content or big websites or  when the content needs to be queried by the visitor or adding comments etc, for example if you have a big business and you have a lot of products; then you need a dynamic website that will enable the customers to search for products with certain criteria.

Dynamic website are built using a programming language and HTML and a database sometimes, updating these sites is done using an interface. ASP and PHP are examples of programming languages used to build Dynamic websites, there are many softwares made for Dynamic websites, for example if you want to build a  photo gallery website you can download Coppermine Gallery for FREE which is built using PHP which is also FREE and use MySQL database also FREE.

Blogs are actually Dynamic websites, which got very popular in the last three years. Blogs are used for writing journals, diaries, news and then publishing them online on your blog and people can also comment on what you wrote and what other wrote.

There are millions of blogs on the internet now, because they are easy to build and also fun, you can start your own blog in minutes all you have to do is to sign up at any blogging service like Blogger.com or SiteDiary.com or LiveJournal.com.

Now that you understand what the difference between Static and Dynamic and Blogs is, you should be able to decide which one you should go for.