A static page is the electronic equivilent of a printed page. Once it is drawn and placed on your site, it will not change or have the ability to detect a web visitor s responses. If a static page is changed and that change affects other pages in the site, the other pages also have to be edited. Typically, the owner of the web site is forced to pay the web developer to make changes on a static site. Active pages are typically delivered through the use of a database and incorporate many web technologies such as Flash , XML, Java, Java Script, ColdFusion , ASP, PHP and streaming audio visual technologies.
Active pages have the ability to detect a web visitors actions and adjust the site accordingly.
Additionally, edits to active sites can easily be accomplished by use of intuitive on-line editors. Edits made to an active page automatically update any other affected pages on the site, thus reducing the complexity of maintaining your web site. Server Side Programming Utilizing server side web programming languages such as ColdFusion , ASP, JAVA, and PHP, the information in the custom database is incorporated with HTML to produce the final web pages for your site. It is a combination of Server Side Programming and Client Side Programming that allow Ginter Park Technologies custom web applications to sense the web user s activities and adjust the web site based on their input. Java Script, ActiveX, and Flash are but a few types of programming code that can be sent to your browser for execution.