A static web page (sometimes called a flat page[1]) is a web page A web page or webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device that is delivered to the user exactly as stored, in contrast to dynamic web pages A dynamic web page is a hypertext document rendered to a World Wide Web user presenting content that has been customized or actualized for each individual viewing or rendition or that continually updates information as the page is displayed to the user. It is difficult to be precise about "dynamic web page beginnings" or chronology, which are generated by a web application In system software, a web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is hosted in a browser-controlled environment [citation needed] or coded in a browser-supported language (such as JavaScript, combined with a browser-rendered.
Consequently a static web page displays the same information for all users, from all contexts, subject to modern capabilities of a web server A web server is a computer program that delivers content, such as web pages, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), over the World Wide Web. The term web server can also refer to the computer or virtual machine running the program to negotiate content-type An Internet media type, originally called a MIME type after MIME and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value is such a type, is a two-part identifier for file formats on the Internet. The identifiers were originally defined in RFC 2046 for use in e-mail sent through SMTP, but their use has expanded to or language of the document where such versions are available and the server is configured to do so.
Static web pages are often HTML HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content documents stored as files in the file system A file system is a method of storing and organizing computer files and their data. Essentially, it organizes these files into a database for the storage, organization, manipulation, and retrieval by the computer's operating system and made available by the web server over HTTP The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. However, loose interpretations of the term could include web pages stored in a database A database consists of an organized collection of data for one or more uses, typically in digital form. One way of classifying databases involves the type of their contents, for example: bibliographic, document-text, statistical. Digital databases are managed using database management systems, which store database contents, allowing data creation, and could even include pages formatted using a template and served through an application server, as long as the page served is unchanging and presented essentially as stored.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- No programming skills are required to create a static page.
- Inherently publicly cacheable (ie. a cached copy can be shown to anyone).
- No particular hosting requirements are necessary.
- Can be viewed directly by a web browser without needing a web server or application server An application server is a software framework dedicated to the efficient execution of procedures for supporting the construction of applications. The term was originally used when discussing early client–server server systems and servers that ran SQL services and middleware servers to differentiate them from file servers, for example directly from a CD-ROM CD-ROM is a pre-pressed compact disc that contains data accessible to, but not writable by, a computer for data storage and music playback, the 1985 “Yellow Book” standard developed by Sony and Philips adapted the format to hold any form of binary data or USB Drive A USB flash drive consists of a NAND-type flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, much smaller than a floppy disk, and most weigh less than an ounce (30 g). Storage capacities can range from 64 MB to 256 GB with steady improvements in size and price per capacity.
Disadvantages
- Any personalization or interactivity has to run client-side (ie. in the browser), which is restricting.
- Maintaining large numbers of static pages as files can be impractical without automated tools.
See also
- Dynamic web page A dynamic web page is a hypertext document rendered to a World Wide Web user presenting content that has been customized or actualized for each individual viewing or rendition or that continually updates information as the page is displayed to the user. It is difficult to be precise about "dynamic web page beginnings" or chronology,
- Web page A web page or webpage is a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device
- Web document A PDF document requested from SFTP or SMTP protocols, for example, is a web document, but not a web page
References
- ^ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O12-flatpage.html DARREL INCE. "flat page." A Dictionary of the Internet. 2001.
