What is a Dynamic Site?

How to recognize a database driven site

Dynamic sites are ones that pull their content from a database. In these, many, or all, of the pages are not actual HTML pages but ones that are created "on the fly" with information stored in the database.

To determine if your site is a dynamically generated one, browse through your site and watch the address bar in your browser. Straight HTML sites will have addresses that look like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/products/productdescription.htm
(individual page endings could also be .html, .asp or others)

Dynamic sites will usually have a URL that will look like this: 
http://www.yoursite.com/actn/opn/getpage.asp?productcat="actionvideos"
(exact methods to create page could also be cgi, cfm or others)

The indicator is usually the question mark, "?", somewhere in the URL. If your URL has a question mark in it, it's a dynamic URL. You may have both kinds of addresses, in which case you'll want to refer to the following question in the Package Selection Wizard and indicate how many HTML pages you have.