Dynamic Site Design

In web design tips | on 11.17.08

Many websites like those of newspapers constantly update the website. These websites will have different content every time you visit them. Such dynamic websites need to provide you with the latest content. What these sites require is to pull information needed from a database or a form. The information is normally populated when the static site is created. However, for dynamic websites, it is populated when the individual page is requested. The design has to be such that it adapts and maintains a professional appearance even when there is a large amount of information on the page.

The site container is a very important part of its website design. It provides a solid base for a dynamic site to work. It has to be height flexible that can encase the content of the site of any size. For that, a simple thing to do is set a black border with a consistent site width. The container has the capacity to expand or contract height wise and accommodate different amount of content. When using dynamic website drop down menus can also help in making it easily functional. They are easy to dynamically produce and can have the same logic as the site container. The idea behind using it is that the main categories can be each wrapped so that they can be assigned an absolutely positioned hidden sub menu that can appear only on mouse over. This is very useful for dynamic websites as the height of the pages can increase or decrease as the number of submenu items increases or decreases. All this is possible without affecting the overall layout of the site.

Peter Brittain

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