Dynamic Web Applications are prevalent in commercial sites, where the content displayed is generated from information accessed in a database or other external source.

Web pages can contain static and/or dynamic content. Static content displays whatever is written on a page and will only change if the editor conducts changes. Dynamic Web pages are able to display dynamic content; meaning, information are e.g. being taken out from a database and displayed on the page. The dynamic content from the database depends on what the user would like to see. Dynamic pages are useful for large storage and frequent changes of data, they interact with the user, so that each user visiting the page sees customised information. To manipulate data that are in databases on the server, server-side technology is needed. The Web pages themselves also reside on the server, and so are also manipulated by server side technology.

The two most common server-side languages in use on the Internet today are Active Server Pages (ASP) from Microsoft and Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) which is an open-source server-side scripting language, both are used for e-commerce and other Web applications..

The advantage of this type of web site is that once we have done the programming you can make all the necessary updates to the site yourself via simple online forms, removing the expense of paying for your webmaster to do it.

example 1: Thistle Chemicals (complete content management directly via database forms)
example 2: MHS Web Solutions (complete content management via online forms)
example 3: BraveheartScotland.com (partial content management via online forms)