They're not static pages. They're dynamic pages assembled on the fly from the pieces in a database to match your query. Skills managing data making tables and charts Recommendation Go West, young man. Those were Horace Greeley's famous words of wisdom that got the U.S. settled a hundred and fifty years ago. Today, that one-word secret of success would be databases .
Database administrators rule the online world.
Learn more Webmonkey tutorial Databases need to be designed and programmed. The leading commercial application is Allaire's Cold Fusion . For something simpler, less powerful, and free, try Ezenet's Instabase . For something more complex, more powerful, and free, try PHP . Recommendation A spreadsheet, like a word processor and like a sophisticated web page, is just a fancy front-end for a database.