SERVICES > Interactive Sites

Example: Stop At Red
Client: Stop At Red Site Type: Interactive; Visitors can interact with the site. Added: February 2006
Example: Core Bike Show
Client: Core Bike Show Site Type: Interactive; Visitors can interact with the site. Added: November 2005

In simple terms, an interactive site is one which builds it's pages 'on the fly' based upon the choices of the visitor. Elements into which visitors can submit information may also be considered to be interactive, eg contact forms, guestbooks, bulletin boards etc.

Interactive sites commonly have 2 parts; a database containing all the text and images for the entire site, and a scripted delivery engine containing all the rules which determine what text and images is collected from the database and delivered as a finished page to the visitor.

For interactive elements where the visitor submits information, the site will respond to their input; for example by adding their comment to a guestbook or forum, or sending the site owner an email.

Sites which have a need for a large number of pages, eg shop sites listing products, are most commonly created using interactive techniques. A single 'page' (system) can be tailored by the site to give each visitor the information they want to see by guiding them a sequence of choices. A product catalogue is perhaps one of the best examples.

Interactive systems rely upon templates, each template having a sequence of blank spaces into which the relevant text and/or pictures is inserted.

Interactive features may be combined with a number of static pages to deliver a site which appears much larger than it really is.




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