Are you a dynamic kind of guy?

I have found that there is an increasing fashion in web design - among clients - to seek dynamic solutions to their web design needs. What does all this mean? Recently I had the following conversation with a client: "I want a dynamic site because they are better." "Oh," said I, "Why do you find them better?" "I don't know. I was just told that they were." I would argue most people have a simple emotional response to the terms "dynamic" and "static" that is a basis for this "better". Dynamic is a synonym for lively, go-ahead, active and vibrant. Static sounds pedestrian, stale and even stagnant. With this in mind, the terms I personally use are the less emotive "Content management site" alias dynamic and "HTML site" otherwise not entirely accurately described as static. This article is an approach to demonstrating when dynamic is in truth better - and when it is not. Dynamic websites are a powerful tool in the hands of the experienced web site developer and the computer literate customer/user. They allow the owner to modify and update the site's content without using any third parties such as the webmaster provided they have the ability to utilize the system. (As a general rule, I suggest that if you can use Microsoft "Word" effectively, you should be OK. The computer phobic regrettably need not apply!) If you plan o