Traditional web pages are a collection of images and text files containing styling information and html. This can make maintaining and updating regularly changing content an expensive and time consuming task.
By incorporating a database into your website you can reduce the hassle and complexity of maintaining and updating your website.
What could I use a database for?
If you have frequently changing content whether it be news, products, articles, links, etc a database can be used to manage these more effectively.
Typical examples where a database driven website would be beneficial :
Storing client and visitor data and creating a searchable database.
Content management with regular updates, categorisation, etc.
Forums and discussion groups.
Subscription services such as newsletters.
We have designed database driven websites for clients such as:
A homeopathy doctor who wished to track his patients progress.
A law school professor who wished to deliver his tutorials online and interact with his students.
A copy center who wished to provide its clients a system to send documents online for copying (xeroxing) and track the status of the jobs.
A MLM corporation who wished to use their system to encourage afiliate signups.
A financial corporation who wished to update regulations, best practices etc. for multiple clients by giving each client a personal theme when they login.
A senior-executive recruitment firm who wished to post job openings and provide access to candidates to submit their resumes and corporate clients to view them selectively.
A internet start-up who wished to provide a restaurant directory service in the United States.
A internet start-up who wished to provide a entry level job portal to fresh candidates.
A internet start-up who wished to provide a hardware sales platform for vendors on a national level.
A medical society who wished to manage their sign-ups and renewals and send a monthly journal to its doctor members and provide members-only restricted access to their clients.
A livestock feed association who wished to update commodity proces weekly on their website, manage member sign-ups and provide members-only restricted access to their clients.
We have also integrated our database driven product display system (weps) for multiple clients (importers, exporters, wholesalers, distributors) to enable them to promote and seek orders for their products from their website.
This is not a complete list and there are clearly many ways through which you can augment your Web site by using a database.
Probably the best way to start thinking about which options may work best for your organization is to contact us to discuss your requirements.
