Web Components - Database
Sometimes “static” content isn’t enough - you need changing information on your web pages to reflect the current situation. Whether it’s items on hand, properties for sale, current news about your business, or a gallery of photos, you need a back-end database to store and manage the information. For any web site that publishes lists of similar items which periodically must be changed or updated, a database is usually the solution of choice.
Databases offer many advantages, including the ease of updating your data and the ability to “hide” information from the website without deleting it. If the information on your site is dynamically derived from a database, the way it is shown on the page can be easily changed without having to change the data itself, thus reducing your ongoing costs.
At Chameleon Creative, we have substantial experience designing in-house database solutions. In addition to customized applications, our Photo Gallery component employs a database as its storage medium. In fact, the information about our clients and images of their websites shown on this site are all stored and managed in our own custom database.
To view portfolio information on some websites we’ve created employing custom database solutions, click a link from the random selection below.
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