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Better managed and controlled for future updates etc
Otherwise, as AF said, it should be made to look and feel static. Whether or not it really is static or dynamic will depend on the tools used to make it and the services offered by the host.
Depending upon the type of site, there are content management systems that reside on the server and build dynamic sites. There are also data base driven techniques that will build static pages on your PC for upload to the server.
And of course, there is hand coding of html or use of WYSIWYG programs (such as Front Page), or combinations.
In other words, there are many considerations, depending, in part, on what kind of site you are building.
Be it using CSS with XHTML for clientside versus oldschool html 4 or lower ~or~ using php or ASP to store strings of xhtml or other sets of code will allow you to make changes on the fly!
This will allow you to dynamically change your colors/advertising/menu/etc... without having to re-publish every page on your site. You'll never know how many changes you want to make to your site until you have to republish every one of them every time!
Good luck,
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Dynamic. Even the simplest of sites I do now have includes, CSS, and a database.
I would not think of CSS as necessarily being dynamic.
One factor is size, another (as dcheney pointed out) is how often it changes. On a small site it is simple enough to make occassional changes on many pages by opening them up in an editor (wysiwyg or html, I prefer editing html) and cutting and pasting. I maintain one site for a local organization. Every couple of weeks I get a little more information about a future meeting, change in committee assignments, etc. I can edit the affected pages and upload them in just a few minutes.
I have also built larger sites using a database on my computer with a VBA program that builds the static pages, and I upload them. I would consider the pages static although they are created by a database.
