Hello Everyone,
Background:
I told my mother I would help her build a website so she can sell her artwork online. So we got CS4 Web Premium. I have been studying how to use the software for several months now. I am at the point where I made a good static website- all in .htm. Now when learning about making forms functional I have come across .php and MySQL. I am seeing the pros and cons of dynamic vs. static webpages, but I don't see them compared in a way that helps me decide which route to take. The overall mandate from my mother is that she wants a website that she can sell her art, and that will be easy for her to update the site with new items for sale and news of upcoming gallery shows. One important point is that she's a bit inept at computers and so it needs to be easy.
Questions:
- Can contribute be used for updating databases, or is it mainly/ony for .html files?
- Not knocking her art, but I am thinking this will be a not heavily visited website- so are there still benefits in using MySQL?
- Uploading images is an important point, is that a damning mark against MySQL?
- Is it even possible to sell stuff when the items viewed are static?
I guess those are the big ones I have at the moment.
Thanks for your time,
Gregg