Some Web Publishing Tools provide functionality to generate data-driven
websites. The advantage of a data-driven website over a static website is
the ability to easily update website content. Rather than having to
change multiple website pages when product prices change (for example), one can simply upload a database
or a file to the web server. Each of the web
pages then read the product prices dynamically from that file. The
pages are built "dynamically".
Not all Web Publishing Applications have the ability to generate data-driven pages.
Most Web Authoring Tools, however, provide functionality to add "bolt-on" code
that will read and display data from a website. Products like
FrontPage 2003, however, permit MS Access and XML databases to be integrated
into a websites.
