According to Wikipedia, a static Web page is a web page that always comprises the same information in response to all download requests from all users. Contrast with dynamic web page. It displays the same information for all users, from all contexts, providing the classical hypertext, where navigation is performed through "static" documents.
Advantages
• Quick and easy to put together, even by someone who doesn't have much experience.
• Ideal for demonstrating how a site will look.
• Cache friendly, one copy can be shown to many people.
Disadvantages
• Difficult to maintain when a site gets large.
• Difficult to keep consistent and up to date.
• Offers little visitor personalization (all would have to be client side).
To me a Static site means when you open a url to someone's blog or website the same information will come up each time. For example for my site it will be the home page and every time you click on this url the same information will show I have chosen to make the static page my home page.
A dynamic or normal page is one where the content of the site is stored and released when a user requests it. Say I had a forum to my site it would be a dynamic page as it would frequently change as new comments are posted.
Most blogs that have just one page are dynamic that is every time you post it goes to the top of the page and the most recent comments move underneath.
Creating a static page is ideal for, personal blogs, corporate sites, portals, directories & the like, where most of the site is targeted at anonymous users, and only the occasional feature (say, posting a comment or sending feedback).
How to create a Static Page in your Wordpress blog.
- Wordpress has the ability to be "static", meaning that you actually use a 'page' as the first thing your visitor sees.
- Wordpress displays what is called the 'blogroll' which are all the posts on your blog. This is considered dynamic; because it can change when you post... the content you see changes.
- A static site will display a 'page' as the front of the blog. There is a setting under Wordpress /SETTINGS/READING that allows you to set what the Front Page is as well as what the Blog or Posts page is.
So that is it.
Go to your admin section of your blog, then go to settings, then reading and tick the box to static and nominate which page you want it to be. How easy is that?
Julia Mitchell
http://www.smallbizinternetsolutions.com Online marketing for offline business. |
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