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| What an Automated Web Site Can Do for Your Business
As your Internet business grows, your free time will dwindle.
Site changes will become time consuming and stressful. Automate
your site and you can use your time for better purposes.
Automating
Automating a web site can cut out tedious tasks such as updating
HTML, FTPing pages and changing site designs. Advanced automated
web sites can send follow-up emails, send out newsletters,
manage sales, do invoicing, track users visits and more. There
is practically no function that cant be accomplished.
There are many different types of automated web sites.
Typically, the platforms break down into two categories,
prepackaged or made to order. Automated web sites can range in
complexity from simply using server side includes to full
database driven sites. Server side includes are little snippets
of code that allow content from one file to show on many pages.
A database driven site, on the other hand, pulls content from an
online database.
Web site information stored in an online database can be quickly
and seamlessly inserted into many different types of templates.
This becomes a huge time saver when you need to make a universal
change to a web site. Depending on the system, the change can be
made as a snippet of code or input directly into the database.
Once entered, the regenerated site will carry the changes
throughout the pages. In contrast, a non-automated site would
require you to make changes to each individual page, a time
wasting task. Lets look at any example.
Assume you have a database driven, automated site. After testing
the site, you discover the font appears very small in certain
common monitor settings. Making an executive decision, you
decide to change it throughout the site. With a manual system,
you must pull up each page file for the site and change the
html. If your site has 100 pages, you better break out the
coffee! If your site is automated, however, you can simply
address the font change in the database ONE TIME and generate
the changes on all the pages. We are talking about saving days
of your time.
If you are creating a site, make sure you use an automated
platform. Dont waste days of your life making manual changes.
About the author:
Halstatt Pires is an Internet marketing consultant with
http://www.marketingtitan.com - an Internet marketing firm in
San Diego offering automated web site systems through
http://www.businesscreatorpro.com.
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