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A poor understanding of website technologies and types continue to be a source of grief for new website owners and developers. Most venture into their online website development without any real knowledge of website technologies, leading many to the purchase of website technologies and solutions that are at best outdated and irrelevant by decades of continues technology improvements.
It starts with a basic question of what a website is?
The common perception is that a website is simply the published pages (HTML pages) of information that is accessible to your website visitors. This perception leads many to invest in solutions and service providers that help to publish information only. At best these customers are addressing only one of many possible goals that the website owner and management have set. In all cases, it has proved a very costly mistake. We will call these types of websites traditional websites.
So, what is a website?
With the advances of website development tools and technologies, continous improvements have made a website more than a collection of static information content in HTML pages. A website can not only be a collection of web pages, but a collection of management tools (website applications) for creating the website information and publishing website information content, collecting, storing and analyzing website & business data, and managing the website and business operations. We will call these types of website solutions smart websites.
Differences: Traditional vs. Smart websites?
In order to completely understand the differences between a traditional website and a smart website, it is important to also completely understand:
 How a website works - irrespective of the type of website, all websites work using basic foundation technologies that you need to know about..
 How a traditional website works - learn the process of creating and maintaining a traditional website. Understanding this allows you to understand the development tools, services and solutions you need to purchase in order to build and maintain a traditional website.
 How a smart website works - knowing that a smart website simply improves on the traditional website is key. A smart website simply solves the real problems that faces traditional websites allowing you to reach more of your goals at a lower time investment (increase productivity) and at a lower total cost (reduced cost).
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