Static Websites vs Dynamic Website, Client-Side Scripting vs Server-Side Scripting.

Joy Joel
3 min readOct 10, 2021
static vs dynamic website

Websites come in different designs and sizes, a lot of people think of a website as a WEBSITE, the concept of static vs. dynamic websites never comes into their minds. If you have plans to create or migrate a website, or work in the company or team that majors in Web development, then knowing the difference between is important.

Static Websites

are mostly and purely informational, and use only client-side HTML and CSS code. No elements in this page are changed when accessing it. Example: personal blogs — the intent is to display information for readers. On a personal blog, users typically just browse the site’s contents.

image illustration of a static and blog website

Dynamic Websites

are functional sites which allow users to interact with information that is listed on the page. Dynamic websites rely on both client-side and server-side scripting languages such as JavaScript, PHP or ASP.net.

When a user accesses a dynamic website, the site can be changed through a code that is run in the browser and/or on the server. Dynamic websites use the term CRUD, which…

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Joy Joel
Joy Joel

Written by Joy Joel

Abba’s Daughter| DevOps Engineer|Technical Writer

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