Shed Away the Extra Weight of Your Website by Database driven website design

If you are over weight, you will encounter many difficulties in carrying yourself, so does a heavy weight website face difficulties in loading and processing. You see a website has global audience but the internet speed may not be the same universally. People around the world are using internet according to their ease and availability. Some are using it by dialup connection and slow broadband services. So to make an easy reach and to attract customers; we should have a website which is easy to download. Best option for shedding away the extra weight on your website is to go for a database driven website design.
Here are few tips for accomplishing your task of making websites that are lighter in weight.
• Don’t use images loaded with special effects. Generally people quit the websites which take longer duration in loading. Try to include fewer images in your design while maintaining the look.
• Make sure that your text links are read by search engines and load easily as compared to graphics.
Suppose you want to display a lengthy list of products with their brief note and image. Answer to solve your problems is to have a database driven website design.
A database enabled website allows you to change the information and updating your product image without doing any kind of alteration in your web page. In this kind of design web pages are generated every time a user clicks at an item; it collects the relevant information feed into database and displays it on a web page.

Need for Database driven website design

Huge quantities of information about various services and products can be stored by database driven websites of the company.  Proficient data recovery and sorting is also enabled. Complex statistical analysis on the data can also be carried out very easily. The process of editing the existing content or posting new content is simplified to a great extent. So, the records can be updated by a person without relying on the web developer and updating his records. Advanced search capabilities are facilitated by such websites.  In database driven websites, the site information can be updated for uploading the pages on the website. There will also be a drastic minimization in the maintenance of the sites. The interactivity will be increased considerably.

Requirements for database driven website design

MySQL – This is required for extracting information from various databases. Thus, what is first required is a database. MySQL is a system for relational database management. This is a software package which is excellent at handing and systemizing huge quantities of information.

PHP – this is a server-side scripting language. It enables the web server to read the new file which is also known as “PHP script”. The information is extracted straight away from the database and is put into the webpage before transferring it to the browser. PHP can be downloaded free of cost.

Steps to build a database driven web site:

• ·          The web host must be checked for PHP 4.10 along with MySQL
• ·         The MySQL database must be set up on the web server
• ·         The PHP script files must be downloaded
• ·         All the files must be drawn out from ZIP folder and saved in the folder on the computer
• ·         All the files that are extracted to the hosting space must be transferred