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What are dynamic web pages?

Two separate things are involved

(1) Dynamic websites

Dreamweaver Help - "they require a data source from which to retrieve and display dynamic content. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX lets you use databases, request variables, URL variables, server variables, form variables, stored procedures and other sources of dynamic content" -

These pages involve server based interactivity. They retrieve and process information serverside. Interactive database based sites using PHP or ASP fall into this category.

The administrator can usually control these site dynamically with a control panel an blogging and forum sites allow user interactivity.

(2)  DHTML (Dynamic HTML)

  • Dynamic pages often involve elements of interactivity where the page is changed in response to user action. This interactivity is either server or locally based.
  • It often involves the use of scripting and other languages as well as HTML. Hence the use of JavaScript,  VB scripting, Perl and other server based scripting languages.. As well as the the use of Java through    Java applets are increasingly part of web pages.

"Dynamic HTML is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated." - W3C

Dynamic HTML. An extension of HTML that enables, among other things, the inclusion of small animations and dynamic menus in Web pages. DHTML code makes use of style sheets and JavaScript.
webmaster.lycos.co.uk/glossary/D/

(Dynamic HTML ) A collective term for a combination of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags and options, style sheets, and programming that will let you create Web pages more animated and more responsive to user interaction than previous versions of HTML. Dynamic HTML can allow Web documents to look and act like desktop applications or multimedia productions.
www.education.tas.gov.au/wiseweb/appendices/glossary.htm

Whats involved in DHTML?

  • DOM - An object-oriented view of a Web page and its elements W3C calls it the "Document Object Model."
    Page elements are regarded as objects that can be changed or moved aound the page without reloading the page.
    Dreamweaver behaviours and events applied to layers and page elements are the most obvoius manifestation of this.
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) With CSS we got a style and layout model for HTML documents.
  • JavaScript (and VBScript) Allows you to write scripting code to control HTML elements.
  • Dynamic fonts Netscape and IE browsers 4.0 and above have the ability to display dynamic fonts, which are downloaded either from your own server or a third party server. They lets you use a greater variety of text fonts than were previously available.

 

 

References, Links and examples

 

Link to Dynamic HTML site

 

Dom Menu - this is a DHTML script - A useful with links to dynamic drive. Click anywhere to see and use it.

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