what is Dynamic web pages

[Lisa]

I was reading a thread below; and wondered:
what is Dynamic Web Pages?

thanks

 

[jaf]

Hi Lisa,
It means dynamically created based on some criteria.
Take www.google.com for example.
Open a browser by clicking the link above and you go to the google start
page.
Type "pasta" in the search box and click the google search button.

You get a web page with a list of links.
That page does not exist as a "page" like "pasta.htm", it is created on the
fly or "dynamically".

BUT!
You can still link to it because google will recreate the page for whomever
clicks the link.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pasta&btnG=Google+Search
Six months from now the link will work but the results may be different.

Most all search engines work this way as do most shopping carts.

 

[Lisa]

Thanks. So how and why does someone create one for their
web?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Can help reduce the overall number of pages.

Example: I have a site that has 300 pages, but can dynamically generate
110,000 plus pages.

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[Kevin Spencer]

How? You have to use a server-side programming technology, such as ASP,
ASP.Net, CGI, etc. Why? Dynamic web pages enable you to display
dynamically-changing data, and provide other interactive features that
static HTML pages cannot.

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