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The Lincoln Indoor Bowls Club Web Site - Dynamic Pages
Example of Dynamic Pages (pages using dynamic content) on this web site are:
In each of these, the actual content is held in a set of databases on the web site
server. The document that enables the display is a set of place holders that the
server fills with database content when you inform it what is required. For example,
in the
Indoor Leagues display, the server waits until the Season, League
and Division are selected then the Games, Tables or Teams
button clicked. It (the server) then "digs out" the appropriate data from
the appropriate database and "builds" the page to display.
There are many advantages but the 3 main ones are.
- It avoids large, slow to download web pages. For example, the league fixtures
chart from the club handbook would take 20 minutes to download using a dial-up connection.
Using dynamic content with the database and filters method that is massively reduced.
- Inputting the winter league teams, results and tables is a very big job (26 ish
!! divisions). Building and replacing the documents after games would be a nightmare.
With this method updates are done in a standard web browser and several people will
can do them simultaneously - only the changes are updated. These changes are displayed
immediately. A massive reduction in workload.
- Expensive storage space on the web server is reduced - one dynamic page with its
matching database takes the place of a team sheet, games sheet and results table
per each of 26 divisions.
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